Maybe I'm in the wrong country?

[Seigi]

Maybe I should just migrate to Amsterdam:

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkqTDdtlc4&sns=fb[/media]

 

[twobiker]

Bye then.

 

[Pottsy]

I've recently come back from a long weekend there and it is great to see so much happy, peaceful and functional use of bicycles. If only...

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I've recently come back from a long weekend there and it is great to see so much happy, peaceful and functional use of bicycles. If only...

I'm guessing that that video is like one of London where everyone is either a cockney of wears a pin stripe suit and a bowler hat.

 

[swee'pea99]

'course they don't show you all the intensive care wards crammed with people with mashed heads from all that hurtling around WITHOUT HELMETS.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

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'course they don't show you all the intensive care wards crammed with people with mashed heads from all that hurtling around WITHOUT HELMETS.
[/quote]

Passes Swee'pea99 a flack jacket

 

[twobiker]

[quote name='swee'pea99' timestamp='1316512193' post='1848743']
'course they don't show you all the intensive care wards crammed with people with mashed heads from all that hurtling around WITHOUT HELMETS.
[/quote]
Hurtling ?.

 

[LosingFocus]

Hurtling ?.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hurtling

HTH. [inserts winky thing to show I'm only ribbing you]

 

[calibanzwei]

Wearing a helmet in Holland will have you pointed and screeched at al a "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"...

 

[asterix]

I'd a dutch bike once. Hurtle you could not. I never wore a helmet. When it was frosty I did fall off on my commute but I used my SAS survival skills to rebound completely unscathed and ready to attack the nearest bystander.

 

[Unkraut]

Society for Applied Spectroscopy?

 

[Red Light]

There would be apoplexy here if that occurred in Britain. People riding on the rear rack, only one person in the whole video wearing a helmet....... If they ride like that the Dutch will have all killed themselves in a year or so.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

There would be apoplexy here if that occurred in Britain. People riding on the rear rack, only one person in the whole video wearing a helmet....... If they ride like that the Dutch will have all killed themselves in a year or so.

They are too chilled out on dope to ride fast.

 

[Gasman]

I had a weekend in Amsterdam some time ago and, as in the video, saw hundreds of cyclists, mainly on big, heavy looking sit-up-and-beg roadsters and often blonde, pretty and short skirted with a similar friend perched on the luggage rack. Over the course of a few days I saw 12 helmets. Half of them were worn by rollerbladers in Vondel Park and a couple of Segway borne city guides. Of the remainder, 3 were on the heads of a group of lycra clad roadies out for a ride and the rest were worn by British (I think) tourists.

 

[Night Train]

I was in Amsterdam a few years ago and I'm sure I saw more cars then bikes on the road. There seemed to be millions of bikes parked up though!