We’ve seen the video of the underwater bicycle garage in Amsterdam being built, or rather a timelapse version of the four-year building process, and it’s bonkers.
The underwater structure, built beneath the canal in the De Pijp neighborhood, has 7,000 (yup, 7,000!) bike parking spots, making it the biggest bicycle parking garage in Amsterdam, though not the biggest in the world. That distinction goes to the Utrecht garage, also in the Netherlands, with its 12,500 spots.
Here, we’ve found a video for you that tours the structure from a first-person perspective, so you can see the Albert Cuyp underwater bicycle parking garage in Amsterdam for yourself. Next question: how do we get one of those?
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Natascha Grief got her first bike shop job before she was old enough to drink. After a six-year stint as a mechanic, earning a couple pro-mechanic certifications and her USA Cycling Race Mechanics license, she became obsessed with framebuilding and decided she wanted to do that next. After Albert Eistentraut literally shooed her off his doorstep, admonishing that if she pursued framebuilding she will be poor forever, she landed an apprenticeship with framebuilder Brent Steelman in her hometown of Redwood City, CA. After that, she spent several years working for both large and not-so-large cycling brands. Somewhere in there she also became a certified bike fitter. Natascha then became a certified personal trainer and spent nine years honing her skills as a trainer and coach, while also teaching Spin. During the dumpster fire that was the year 2020, she opened a fitness studio and began contributing regularly to Runner’s World and Bicycling as a freelance writer. In 2022, she joined the staff of Bicycling as News Editor.
