Discover Amsterdam from a different perspective. With Lex and the City, enjoy private, local-guided bike tours designed to show both the well-known sights and hidden corners of the city and its surrounding countryside. Every tour 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?
Privé fietstour door Amsterdam (Nederlands) |
Visites guidées privées à Amsterdam (Français) |
Private Fahrradtour in Amsterdam (Deutsch)
Why Choose Lex and the City?
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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.
- Small groups: Maximum of 8 people in the city, 10 in the countryside for a relaxed pace.
- Local expertise: Lex has years of experience guiding groups across Amsterdam and North Holland. Expect stories, history, 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.
- Extras: Photo stops, 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, unusual parts of Amsterdam, historic sites, artistic neighborhoods, hidden gems (Link leads to our blog-post)- 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 tours, countryside charm, unusual themes and quarters in town, to Zaanse Schans, the flower-fields above Amsterdam, biking to the beach, and even on Texel Island.
- 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 €525 per group tour (per guide we mean). Ask us for a quote! –> Even by Signal that is possible.
- 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”. Review about this Lexperience.
- Maritime biking experience. Foremost with 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: Cruquius-eiland. The Eastern Docklands are full of architecture, watersides, converted warehouses, space and…. nicknames. Other maritime highlights on our way: the shipping house and the marine site with that amazing view over the maritime museum. To this private bike tour in “Oost” (Eastern Docklands) .
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 and cool, uncommon circular & urban recycling choices.
- Unusual Amsterdam by bike.
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The so-called Obama track from Museumplein and finishing in front of Rijksmuseum – Triggers from the heart. Biking “de Pijp” (the pipe, la pipe) 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“. Example of a Lex and the City bike track. (Including Dam square, Anne Frank house, Vondelpark, biking the canals and biking beneath the Rijksmuseum!) fun bike experience or some colleagues coming to Amsterdam for team meetings? We’d make the AMS business tour tailor made for you.
- 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 Lex)
- 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.)
Contact the uncommon local private bike guides from Lex and the City Amsterdam: [email protected] | +31 6 55 33 77 26.
Lex on March 6th, 2024:
Five group requests for the uncommon bike-tour season 2024 within one day? That must be a Lex and the City record! (And that day is not even finished yet.) Go-Go-Go
Countryside bike tours above Amsterdam. (avoiding tourist traps)
Countryside private bike (L) excursions of half a day or even a day-trip above Amsterdam (North Holland) with those uncommon and Amsterdam private & local tour guides.
Waterland (in the north of Amsterdam) with the smaller countryside towns with a private local bike guide
Click on the picture to read and explore that 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. (Great area! So not just the Zaanse Schans itself. That uncommon Lexperience.) Facebook post with pictures of us discovering the track from Amsterdam to Zaanse Schans.
- By train to Schagen and then heading for the bulb fields with flowers (tulips) – by bike of course.
- Texel island by bike is probably one one of the best Lexperiences you can have. (We go there with hungry groups since 2001)
And two private guided bike tours in the countryside, however not above Amsterdam:
- Zandvoort bike & skate track for groups: great route starting from Amsterdam over Spaarnwoude, Haarlem, the dunes, Bloemendaal to Zandvoort beach.
- Ouderkerk: off the beaten path experience Amsterdam along river Amstel checking out the houses (and castles) of the rich & famous in the Golden age and now.
About bike guide and tour creator Lex
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. 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 for unexpected private cycling tours in Amsterdam and above
Lex and the City tours pricing.
Contact
+31655337726 | [email protected]
Contact the offbeat bike guide or show your hotel concierge in “North” this private-guide-for-hotelguests-page.
Custom cycling tours in Amsterdam: We are (F)lexy and we know it.
Private Tours in Amsterdam: the online spot to start.
A case of a custom bike tour for business people, after a meeting on ZuidAs
(a case of) a tailor made active cycling experience in Amsterdam with Lex and the City