Please join us this Friday, 12 December, to celebrate Twotone's 11th birthday in style with live music, great food, refreshing drinks, real tattoos, and all your friends, new & old!
- 19:00 Party Start, food from @papapatataaa ready & tattoos begin
- 19:30 Pizza Lawaii — heavy post-punk with local legend @fish_the_wild_bunch_cc on drums!
- 20:00 DJ CanadianCat – spinning his house music deep cuts to keep the party rolling
- 21:00 @amber.decay — local shoegaze up-and-comers with heavy riffs and emotional vocals
- 22:00 @neonriver_ — eclectic group of local @doxamsterdam artists: @chaerinmusic, @mazzum_bass & @pedronobre97 creating a very danceable blend of electronic, indie, rock, and jazz!
- 23:00 DJ General K – Vinyl collector, selector, soundsystem operator, radio host, ragamuffin soldier; General K on a mission since 2001 to bring Reggae, Dub, and Dancehall to all quality music-loving public without discrimination. NICENESS GUARANTEED!
- Tattoos! We’ve also got @paulsmoothsailingtattoo aka @v.d.zwaard offering permanent party favors along with local Amsterdam tattooer @inkedbythefox.
- Drinks! As well as Ashton from @nativewines.eu on the scene + plenty of @walhallacraftbeer!
11 Year T’s available onsite printed here in Amsterdam by @screens.ink & designed by @kike.molares & featuring an image he took during a fixed crit at @cyclingworldeurope of @soulcyclingmagazine’s Chief Editor, @merlingraphy, diving into a turn in the drops.
Drop Bars Not Bombs! With so much polarized politics, the threat of war & long-standing unjust aggression, years of genocide, and violent conflicts around the world, we’re promoting a message of peace this year! ☮️💜
I hope to see you all this Friday, 12 December!
Thank you for supporting Twotone and reading this newsletter!
wishing you a good week ahead,
Jon
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December
- 🇳🇱 3 Wheelrunner Wednesday Ride (Weekly at 6:30am)
- 🇳🇱 12 Twotone 11 Year Party | Food, beverages, tattoos & live music!
- 🇳🇱 13 Hangover Ride & Join Felix on a leg of his ride back home to Bonn! (details TBD on our insta)
- 🇳🇱 14 AMS CX COMP | ASC OLYMPIA – SPORTPARK SLOTEN
- 🇳🇱 20 AMS CX COMP | ZWC DTS (Evening Edition!)
- 🇳🇱 31 AMS CX COMP | WV AMSTERDAM – SPORTPARK SLOTEN
January
- 🇳🇱 4 AMS CX COMP | UWTC – UITHOORN
- 🇧🇪 16-18 Velofollies
Bikes
Do We Still Need Bike Trade Shows?
Suvi Loponen
More of a conclusive & certainly longer read on the often over-polarised Linkedin post topic but reaches the same conclusion: some small shows are doing well & though some brands bailed on bigger shows – namely, Eurobike – not everyone is bailing. In fact, everyone still goes but doesn't exhibit. TL;DR? Yes, we do still need bike trade shows! See you at Velofollies!
Gravel Earth Series Calendar 2026
Dutch Tracklocross Cup
Ideas
Two Mechanics of Joy Episodes!
Last month's episode with Kristy & me is up for listening as well as last week's with Neon River. Listen here! Catch Neon River live at our office this Friday! They go on at 22:00! Also, thank you, Echobox, for giving our 11 Year party a shout in your newsletter!
Bikepacking.com's 2025 Gear of the Year
Logan Watts
Lots of great product ideas in this year's run down. Nice to see Old Man Mountain's Flip System get a nod too! Read here.
Europe’s luxurious new ‘business-class’ sleeper bus between Amsterdam and Zurich
Rhiannon Batten
Wild! "Last month Swiss startup Twiliner launched a fleet of futuristic sleeper buses, and I’ve come to Amsterdam to try them out. Running three times a week between Amsterdam and Zurich (a 12-hour journey via Rotterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg and Basel), with a Zurich to Barcelona service (via Berne and Girona) launching on 4 December, the company’s flat-bed overnight sleeper buses are the first such service in Europe."
Friends
Max Riese's FRTHR Perserverance 2025 Race Recap
Max Riese
Max's love letter to Camille's sadistic 'cycling' events has me wistfully longing to carry my bike up craggy climbs in the Pyrenees. That's saying a lot!
SOUR's Purple Pie Launches
Paul Veugen's Detail App Wins iPad App of The Year
Radness
Emmanuel Nataf's Torino-Nice Rally Recap
Thank you for reading!
Here's to celebrating Twotone turning 11 this week!