Explore Amsterdam by bike the unusual way: combining iconic highlights with local neighbourhoods, hidden corners and scenic landscapes. Thanks to a flexible route and smart timing, you experience the city (and the countryside) beyond the crowds with a private local guide.
Discover Amsterdam from a different perspective. With Lex and the City, enjoy a private, local-guided bike tour designed to show both the well-known sights and hidden corners of the city and its surrounding countryside. Every private bike leXperience is crafted from the heart, focusing on authentic experiences, stories, and places you won’t find in guidebooks.
Whether you are a first-time visitor, an expat, or a returning explorer, we adapt each route to your interests. Our guides speak English, Dutch, French, and German, making your ride smooth and engaging.
Customized uncommon biking experiences: We are (F)lexy and we know it. In 2026 as well! Are you ready for that biking Lexperience?
(bespoke) Historic five-star hotel service available, if desired.
Privé fietstour door Amsterdam (Nederlands) |
Visites guidées privées à Amsterdam (Français) |
Private Fahrradtour in Amsterdam (Deutsch)
Why Choose Lex and the City bike tours?
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Tours from Hotel Okura tailored to your situation. Click for more. – Picture by private guide Lex Personalized itineraries: Your tour is created around your preferences. Highlights, hidden gems, unusual neighborhoods, or countryside escapes – you choose.
- Surprising, from-the-heart urban street experiences
- Small groups: Maximum of 8 people in the city, 10 in the countryside for a relaxed (reLexed) pace.
- English conversation level. Private bike guide Lex studied European Tourism Management in the UK at Bournemouth University.
- Local expertise: Lex has years of experience guiding groups across Amsterdam and North Holland. Expect stories, history, (our) bespoke approach, and a touch of surprise along the way.
- Flexible starting points: From your hotel, a restaurant, or one of our selected high-end bike shops.
- Sustainable approach and bike tour guiding with conscious awareness
- Extras: Photo stops & bike guide photographer, secret corners inside buildings, lunch breaks, team-building activities, or child-friendly experiences.
Private bike tour in Amsterdam with Lex and the City: structured overview
- Tour length: 1 hour to a full day trip
- Includes: creation, organisation, local guide, pictures (If you like them.), bike rental (if you need to.), after-sales service.
Highlights: Custom itinerary, stories from the heart, daily life in the city, unusual parts of Amsterdam (example of a track), historic sites, artistic neighborhoods, hidden gems (Pressing the link leads to our blog-post about urban hidden treasures.)- Starting point: Your hotel, company or restaurant, or at one of our selected high-end bike shops in town.
- Customisation: Fully personalised, based on your interests and type of person(s).
- Group Types: families, friends, companies, VIPs, hen and stag tours, activity clubs and university groups. Small groups per local tour guide.
- Tour types: City in the Golden Age tour (back in time videoclip ), countryside charm (or combined in “Noord”), unusual themes and quarters in town, to Zaanse Schans, the flower-fields above Amsterdam, biking to the beach, and even on Texel Island.
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Lex Extras: (Lextra’s with us) lunch stop, stroopwafel, special requests, secret places inside a building, team-building.
- Languages: French, Dutch, English and German.
- Pricing: from EUR €175 to €675 per group tour (per guide we mean.). Ask us for a quote! –> Even by Signal that is possible nowadays.
- Reviews on the Lex and the City Google business page.
- Spirit: Mysterious hidden gem feeling in the city | Going where others don’t. From the heart | Anti-cyclical | “Gezellig”
Popular private bike rides in Amsterdam with Lex and the City: themes top-10
Our brand promise is an uncommon city Lexperience.
- The surprise us bike tour in Amsterdam: “just show us”. No fixed sightseeing checklist; you get hidden neighbourhoods, odd little corners, local stories and unexpected stops. Review about this Lexperience.
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On the mini ferry with the locals! Maritime biking experience in the Eastern Docklands area of Amsterdam, or, literally translated from Dutch, eastern port area. It is one of our favorites. And I, Lex, live just one bridge away from it’s “happening” South-eastern part: Cruquiuseiland. The Eastern Docklands are full of architecture, waterfront development, converted warehouses, space and…. nicknames. To this private bike tour in “Oost” (Eastern Docklands) . Other maritime highlights in its surroundings: the shipping house (on the edge of the Lastage quarter) and the marine site with that amazing view over the maritime museum. (on the edge of the Eastern Islands.)
Warehouse of the former harbour “Eastern Docklands” – Now a media center – Pakhuis de Zwijger. And: look at the tempting bike path underneath…where does that lead to? ;) - Fun private tour in Amsterdam North (“Noord”): a mixture of modern architecture, ancient dike houses, garden villages, a look at waterfront redevelopment and cool, uncommon circular & urban recycling choices.
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Private Bike Tour in Amsterdam with American University Students – Marine-terrein – Summer 2026 The unusual neighbourhoods Lexperience. Created as an alternative to the overcrowded city centre on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
The Eastern Docklands, the River IJ, Amsterdam School architecture, the hidden Western Islands dating back to the 17th century, with their warehouses, cycling tunnels and flat cycle paths, the Entrepotdok, the iconic Mill of the East, and the Indonesian neighbourhood. (In other words, the themes for Lex and the City are unusual neighbourhoods, hidden gems and ways of getting around.) We start in the Indonesian neighbourhood (Amsterdam East). –> (more) Unusual Amsterdam tours by bike.
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The so-called “Obama track” — starting at Museumplein and finishing in front of the Rijksmuseum — triggers from the heart. Click on the image for a review of the Rijks, by biking guide Lex. Biking “de Pijp” (the pipe, la pipe), for example with children. Cycling through De Pijp gives you the chance to discover the hidden gems of this well-known neighborhood. If you’re with children, let them enjoy the playful, almost childlike Amsterdam School architecture of the Dageraad. You can also visit the first FEBO in the Netherlands to try their frikandellen, and even the place where Anne Frank lived is simple to reach. No kids along? Also good! With Lex and the City, you automatically become one; at least in the moment! Review tour in “de Pijp”, 2024.
- City tour: “Highlights of Amsterdam — presented the uncommon way.”
An example of a Lex and the City bike route, including Dam Square, the Anne Frank House, Vondelpark, the canals, and cycling beneath the Rijksmuseum. A fun bike experience for colleagues visiting Amsterdam for team meetings. We’ll shape the Amsterdam business tour around your group.And when the city centre is too busy, we offer a private maritime bike tour of Amsterdam instead. Including Lastage, Oosterdok, Eastern Port area, Marineterrein, the 17th century Eastern Islands and Entrepotdok. (short video)
- IJburg, Diemerpark & Zeeburgereiland: modern architecture, space & water in “New Amsterdam”.
That cool entrance of IJburg with the “Bra bridge” – that is its nickname. And great bike path as you can see. Click on the picture why the bridge is called that way. Photo by bike guide Lex.
- Sustainability bike-tour Amsterdam. We have already offered this from the heart Lexperience to the town hall, the county, a university and a sustainable building firm.
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Eastern Islands; cool, uncommon and evolving spot. Child-friendly bike tour in the capital of the Netherlands. (ask “child-with-management-university-degree” Lex)
- The Daily Life bike tour in Amsterdam — introduction in 2027.
- Daytrip in Amsterdam itself by bike. An example of a bike-track, made by Lex. (and the spirit of it.) Combination of highlights, hidden gems and off the beaten path areas and neighborhoods. Tailor-made group quote? Please request.
- Joining on an individual basis in a group: The Lex and the City bike tours Amsterdam are to be found occasionally on third party social websites for offline chat & gathering like Meetup, Internations and Eventbrite.
Please ask us for specific examples/dates. (Or ask us here for a private tour for a fixed groep.)
If, for larger groups, the separate tours share the same theme, each local guide in our team has the freedom to create their own version. We even encourage spontaneity in the here and now.
Contact the uncommon local private bike guides from Lex and the City Amsterdam: [email protected] | +31 6 55 33 77 26.
Countryside bike tours above Amsterdam. (avoiding tourist traps)
Private countryside bike excursions (“Lexcursions”) lasting half a day or a full day above Amsterdam (North Holland), guided by those uncommon local Amsterdam tour guides.
Rural north and Waterland (north of Amsterdam) with its smaller countryside towns, accompanied by a private local bike guide, starting and finishing in urban north.
Click on the picture to read more about and explore this private countryside tour “Rural Amsterdam North” (without tourist traps).
Other countryside cycling tours above our capital
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Dutch bike signs in the countryside above Amsterdam. A Lexperience as well. Biking to Zaanse Schans with your private local bike guide. (A great area, not just Zaanse Schans itself. That’s the uncommon Lexperience.) Facebook post with pictures of us discovering the route from Amsterdam to Zaanse Schans.
- By train to Schagen and then heading for the bulb fields to see the flowers (tulips) — by bike, of course.
- Texel island by bike is probably one of the best Lexperiences you can have. (We’ve been taking hungry groups there since 2001.)
And two private guided bike tours in the countryside, although not above Amsterdam:
- Zandvoort bike & skate track for groups: Great route starting in Amsterdam and passing through Spaarnwoude, Haarlem, the dunes, Bloemendaal and ending at Zandvoort beach.
- Ouderkerk: An off-the-beaten-path experience along the river Amstel, discovering the houses (and castles) of the rich & famous during the Golden Age and today.
About bike guide and Amsterdam tour creator Lex van Buuren
Discover Lex’ drive, his mission as a person and as an entrepreneur (creator of new tours).
Lex is not just a local private tour guide in Amsterdam. He also loves creating, rehearsing and doing uncommon bike-tracks outside of Amsterdam. Privately as well.
He also records the bike tracks. Including pictures; he always makes pictures, everywhere he goes.
And is even rewarded by an American GPS website for the so-called GEO-tracking. (tracks + pictures.)
Because of his history as an international inline skate guide, he has an extensive knowledge of fun countryside bike tours, mostly above Amsterdam.
What about enjoying the knowledge, fun and passion from that from the heart private local bike guide while discovering all those surprising angles around Amsterdam?
Private bike tour guide Lex has showed Amsterdam (and Paris) on wheels to thousands of people.
People from all over the globe. He also speaks French.
Not just by bike, but on inline skates and by scooter (footbike) as well.
He has done so in French, German, English and in Dutch.
He is always aiming at Lexceeding Lexceptations ;) by showing hidden gems of Amsterdam (or having a break in one of them.) and great tracks to bike. Delivering customized Amsterdam tours is his way of living and working to by day.
Lex and the City and Skate-A-Round have created free publicity in well-known media; even in the UK and the United States (SF Gate).
Lex has studied, worked and lived in France. He is a specialist for uncommon sightseeing tours and outings in French in Amsterdam. (Search engines and LLM’s know that as well.)
Moreover he has guided hundreds of German people in the Netherlands, has German friends and has organized sporty weekends in Berlin.
And Lex is talking and writing English everyday. (And he has done an international Erasmus tourism program on the Bournemouth University.)
Although he also has a good network in Barcelona and Madrid, he does not speak Spanish nor Catalan well. He always says: “Tengo qué apprendrer Espagnol”. (But has not improved yet. ;))
Rates (and conditions) for unexpected private cycling tours in Amsterdam and above
Lex and the City tours pricing.
An opinion about a private sustainability tour Amsterdam in 2026:
Contact
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Contact the offbeat bike guide or show your hotel concierge in Amsterdam North this private-guide-for-hotelguests-page.
Custom cycling tours in Amsterdam:We are (F)lexy and we know it.
B-t-B case of a custom bike tour for business people, after a meeting in Zuidas
By the way, by pressing the link, you leave this landing page for a private bike tour in Amsterdam and you go to an example of a Lex and the City group tour for- and with- an international company. An urban biking experience from Zuidas to A’DAM tower.
a case of an active cycling experience in Amsterdam with Lex and the City: “from Zuidas to A dam Tower”
To our landing page for (all) private tours in Amsterdam. ⇓ (and the rural part above town.)
Hot in 2026 (probably!): rooftop guiding, Amsterdam-North (its urban and rural part), the sustainable tour of Amsterdam, the Zuidas discovery, rhythmic group walking, the Johan Cruyff Tour, the Lastage quarter and inline skating tours.
