I am planning a 4 days trip to Amsterdam with a few friends.
This is going to be my first visit to Amsterdam.
Apart of going to see a concert of my Trance dj idol - Armin van Buuren at Utrecht, I thought of taking my Uni along with me for a tour in the city’s sites.
My hotel is near “Vondelpark”, which seems to be awesome place to ride at.
I wonder if any unicyclists from the Netherlands in this forum can recommend additional sites that are suitable for a trip with a unicycle or maybe even know of a unicyclists group that maybe active at Amsterdam - for a joint ride.
A short hop north is Alkmaar which has a very nice (long distance) ride along the dunes. I can make detailed instructions on how to get there if you want. There is also a nice mountain bike track if you are into municycles.
Yeah i figured that. I think you can have a lot of fun just cruising the city. Buy a big lock though and a saddle cover. You can usually take a unicycle with you for free in public transport.
Just to get into the mood of things you can take a look at this video of two german guys who cycled from germany to amsterdam :
I guess you can take it inside or at least try. Be careful with the stuff they sell at coffee shops though. There have been a few deaths lately. Especially at dance events and such.
I guess you’re going to the 5+6 December concert in the Ziggo dome - which is sold-out completely.
For unicycling the weather isn’t yet such that you go outside for fun for long.
And the indoor skate park is closed. So yes, the Vondelpark is always nice.
What type of riding do you do?
Without the forensics being finished it was already clear that that wasn’t exactly stuff you can buy in a coffeeshop.
As a side note: the mountain bike trail can be very busy with mountain bikers in weekends. I haven’t tried it myself yet since i have a 36" uni for long distance road use and am not up to the challenge of steep municycling yet.
If you’re into flat stuff, then in front of the Holland Casino is the spot that BMX’ers love to use, which is in opposite of the main entrance to of the Vondelpark anyway.
Just a little update on the bike paths near Schoorl. There is some “road construction” going on at the moment and the place is a giant mud pool when it is raining. I went there yesterday in the rain and although it was nice riding ( i fell on my face only once ) there is a spot where you can potentially get a serious injury. They have integrated cattle grids to restrict free roaming cattle. This is an example of what they look like:
Normally they are not a problem but due to road construction they are now 10-15 cm above the road surface and a very nasty for unicycles. I bailed just in time but UPDing at speed into a cattle grid is not a nice thought.
Right behind Snowplanet. For the rest there’s only relative flat hiking paths.
Bus 82 can bring you there from central station.
Without bus I estimate it’s a 1 to 1,5 hour ride, and there’s enough (cyclepath) roadsigns that could bring you back, even if you take alternative routes:
not far away from that place is a cyclo-cross parcour, usually the fence is open for people who’s like to use it.
It crosses the asphalt circuit a couple of time. But in wintertime you likely find mud-traces to link the obstacles together.
If i ride it will be on Wednesday AM