Nothing so Amsterdam as our bike’s. The’re all over the place, in all sizes, colours, and ages. They are our transit, but becoming more and more part of our image & lifestyle as well. Besides, bike’s are my personal passion and I cross trough town on a yellow and blue fixed gear. Which explains the first two shops on the list.
So if your into bikes; you might wanna check out these spots.
- Pristine
- The first and only fixie shop in Amsterdam. A small shop, ran by two young and very enthusiastic guys with lots of colorful hubs, rims, colombus frames and other bling bling bike parts. Go visit them for some small talk and buy a cool cinelli cap for a tenner while you’re at it.
- Rih
- Rih is the last genuine Amsterdam race bike builders / welders of Amsterdam (since 1921). A couple of famous dutch race cyclists won Olympic medals on RIH bikes. Mostly on track bikes. It a small shop in the Jordaan district ran for over 40 years by the last owner. The man is 78 years old so hurry …
- Tromm Tweewielers
- Tromm is one of the better bike and repair shops in town. They specialized in sport bikes (race & ATB) and in folding bikes. Your place for serious parts, advice, bike wear and impulse shopping. There is quite a sexy – 30 something year old – mechanic working there by the way. Single, funny and building website about Amsterdam in his spare time. Much better website’s then the Tromm website.
- Tromm is one of the better bike and repair shops in town. They specialized in sport bikes (race & ATB) and in folding bikes. Your place for serious parts, advice, bike wear and impulse shopping. There is quite a sexy – 30 something year old – mechanic working there by the way. Single, funny and building website about Amsterdam in his spare time. Much better website’s then the Tromm website.
- Macbike Amsterdam
- Wanna rent a bike. Go to MacBike. Good solid bikes and multilingual staff. The disadvantage … you get a red bike, so the whole of Amsterdam will assume (know!) that you’re a lousy biker, you’re probably stoned and you’re a danger to yourself and all others around you.
- Ligfietsspecialist
- Not sure how you call a ligfiets in English but a believe it’s horizontal bike. Since you lay horizontal on them (feet first). They’re very fast and we have a bikeshop that attracts people from all over the country and sells hundreds of them.
