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Today's first load of bicycle parts on my bike trailer and in the baskets on my bike, beginning their journey to customers in Europe. A later load was of parcels for customers further afield.
All the parts we sell begin their journey to customers with a trip by bicycle.
https://www.dutchbikebits.com
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More parcels of bike parts beginning their journeys to customers.

This time I've taken the photo on a cycle-path heading into a tunnel. If I were driving a car I'd be heading toward that traffic light on the left, but the cycle-path goes through the tunnel so I never have to stop when cycling.

This is a good example of how to give cyclists an advantage and make cycling more efficient than driving.

Though I've lived here for a long time now, I still find it amazing that I can use cycling infrastructure of this quality on a daily basis, that it works so well, enabling so many people to ride bikes, and that it keeps everyone safe.
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Parcels of bicycle parts on their way to customers. I stopped in the city centre for a bit to take a photo and it was a bit deserted due to the rain starting again.

If you can't find what you need locally, I can send parts to almost everywhere in the world, but there are exceptions.

I can't ship to the UK or US because both of those countries have decided to enforce trade sanctions against themselves.

I also won't shop to any country which has a horrible human rights record or is currently carrying out a genocide. Or both. Don't want blood money.

https://www.dutchbikebits.com
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Also from this week, photos of bicycle parts starting their journey to customers. Every parcel starts its journey by bike.

It always surprises me how much extra car traffic there is on wet days. People seem happy to wait time and time again for a green light which only lets through three cars at a time, rather than ride their bikes through what was actually quite mild weather.
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Today's delivery run. A bunch of parcels of bicycle parts weighing 30 kg went with me for the first few km of their journey on my bike and in the trailer behind it, before they continued their separate journeys to customers in Canada, Finland, Germany, the USA and elsewhere in the Netherlands.
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Photos from today's second parcel run, featuring typical everyday Dutch cycling infrastructure.

The first photo shows a bus-stop bypass, but the cycle-path is straight and reasonably wide (about 2.5 metres wide for single direction use) so this doesn't inconvenience cyclists.

The second photo shows a junction with a side road. We have priority and drivers have a place to stop at 90 degrees to the cyclepath and look both ways before they cross.

The second isn't perfect. Sight lines to the right are less than ideal, and drivers sadly cannot be relied upon to drive safely. But generally this infrastructure works well.

There's more about Dutch cycle-paths here, including lots of photos:

https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/search/label/cycle%20paths

And if you need bicycle components and would like them to at least begin their journey to you on a bike, click here:

https://www.dutchbikebits.com/
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