Our group bike tours are run by our partner Mike’s Bike Tours, who have been showing visitors around Amsterdam by bike for years. Choose a ride through the city, or head out into the countryside for windmills, villages and cheese.
In the Netherlands the bike is how everyone gets around, and it is also the best way to see a lot in a short time. In the city you ride along the canals and through neighbourhoods that most visitors never reach. Outside the city, within twenty minutes, you are on quiet cycle paths between polders, dikes and grazing cows.
Mike’s Bike Tours runs relaxed rides through the city as well as longer routes into the countryside, as far as the windmills of Zaanse Schans. You can choose a standard Dutch bike or an e-bike, depending on the tour and how far you want to ride.
Every tour is led by an English-speaking guide who lives here and rides these streets every day. Along the way they tell the stories behind what you pass, answer questions, and make sure everyone keeps up.
Groups are kept small, which makes the ride more relaxed and a lot safer in city traffic. It also means you can actually hear the guide at each stop.
The routes stick to cycle paths and quiet streets wherever possible, away from the busiest traffic and tram lines. If you have not cycled in a while, the countryside tours are the easiest place to start.
Here is an overview of the group bike tours run by Mike’s Bike Tours in Amsterdam and the countryside.
The best introduction if it is your first time in Amsterdam. You ride through the canal belt, past the main sights and through local neighbourhoods, with stops for the stories behind them.
Duration: 2.5 to 3 hours
Standard Dutch bike
A longer ride north of the city, made easy by electric assistance. The route passes through Broek in Waterland, once the village of wealthy Amsterdam merchants, and the old harbour town of Monnickendam, and stops at a cheese farm where they also make wooden clogs.
The city tour on an electric bike, so you cover more ground with less effort. A good choice if you are not a regular cyclist.
The other side of Amsterdam. You go magnet fishing in the canals, look for street art, visit the former shipyard at NDSM, now a creative hub, and try your hand at a short graffiti workshop.
Leave the city on a standard bike and within minutes you are between windmills, ditches and green fields. The ride stops in the old village of Ransdorp and at a windmill.
A full day out to the windmills of Zaanse Schans, with its green wooden houses and traditional workshops. The e-bikes make the distance comfortable.
Price Includes
Mike’s Tours, Oosterdoksstraat 106, 1011DK Amsterdam.
Here is our start location, please arrive 15 minutes before the start time.
Our partner Mike’s Bike Tours, who have been showing visitors around Amsterdam by bike for years. We handle the booking and the advice on which ride suits you.
If it is your first time in Amsterdam, the city tour through the canal belt is the best introduction. If you would rather be out of the city, the countryside rides take you past polders, dikes and the windmills of Zaanse Schans. Tell us how long you want to be out and we will point you at the right one.
Between two and a half and six hours, depending on which ride you pick.
The routes are flat, as everything here is, and the pace is relaxed. E-bikes are available on most tours, so distance is rarely the limiting factor. If you have not cycled in a while, the countryside rides are the gentlest place to start.
Groups are deliberately kept small, which makes the ride calmer and safer, and the routes stay on cycle paths and quiet streets away from the busiest traffic and the tram lines wherever possible.
At Mike’s Bike Tours, Oosterdoksstraat 106, a short walk from Amsterdam Centraal.
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