The Adventures of Saviya and Colin in Europe: The Great Amsterdam Bike Capers Continue!

This time, our bikes were not involved! We saw the signs and moved our bikes out of danger. So 700,000 bikes in this city. 50,000 stolen each year..or so they would have us believe! The city came in with less than 2 weeks notice and cut loose 300 bikes! The trucks would pull up, another 30 bikes would be loaded up and inventoried, driven away and a new truck showed up minutes later.Here the teams start to pull out the steel bike racks after the bikes are removed in waves. The black dude in the orange, super badass..In the 8 months we lived at our first apartment, he and his crew came in and rearranged whole sections of sidewalk and street pavers. Super efficient, looks great every time…You rock dude..Goed Zo! Saviya sent me down for the photo journalism, she watches from above Whole piles of the old bike racks…at least the cleaned up some roots so that the Magic Pavers would be even more perfect. One last bike and rack..shacking in its boots…Even the locals were like “what the heck is the city doing with all those bikes and racks?”Its break time. Dry bread with cheese, and coffee or tea.The piles get bigger, the evidence (I mean the signs warning people to move their bikes) are collected and disposed of. This might be in a sculpture museum in Holland somewhere… Finally the SCRAPER! The bring this green goblin in to do the final cleanup. That circular blueish while it has in front is like a steel brush to clean the Magic Pavers up, so that they again work even more perfectly. This same green tool could clear land mines on the frontlines, it was badass!