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Tom Crispin said:

www.copenhagenize.com/2008/04/how-to-drop-kids-off-at-school-in-bike.html

Thanks, now you've made me a bit homesick!

Roos

Tom Crispin said:

www.copenhagenize.com/2008/04/how-to-drop-kids-off-at-school-in-bike.html

If you follow the link to the person who made the video you'll find some
more interesting pages:

http://hembrow.eu/cycling/photos.html
Photos and videos of cycle facilities.

http://hembrow.eu/cycling/articles.html
Articles on designs for cycling in the NL.

Roos

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www.copenhagenize.com/2008/04/how-to-drop-kids-off-at-school-in-bike.html

I love the fact that so many people in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
ride old fashioned city bikes too. Everyone in the UK that buys a bike just
to get to school/work seems intent on buying the most macho looking
inappropriate MTB.
It reminds me of teh many trips to my European office in the suburbs of
Antwerp for a company I worked for several years ago. I got so used to
giving way to streams of cyclists on these bikes. When I changed jobs I
tried to encourage some export business with my new company in the
Netherlands. I took a colleague on a trip to the Netherlands with me, and
we were having a lunchtime meeting with a business contact. It turned out
that his car was in the garage for servicing so he came along to the meeting
on his city bike. My colleague's jaw nearly hit the floor, because he was
the type that assumed that if you turned up for a meeting in a Vauxhall
Vectra rather than a BMW then you were slumming it, so to see this company
director arriving on a bike that looked like the one my grandfather rode was
a real culture shock.

Colin

Colin Reed said:

I love the fact that so many people in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
ride old fashioned city bikes too.

They're not actually particularly more "old fashioned" than a drop-bar
racer, at least from the perspective of somewhere they've never been out
of fashion.

Compared to what most folk ride around town in the UK, "old fashioned"
city bikes make life more convenient and comfortable. They're not
quick, but quick isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be for
commuting. 20 minutes and walk to your desk isn't much slower than 10
minutes and take shower because you're all sweaty...

Pete.
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Tom Crispin said:

www.copenhagenize.com/2008/04/how-to-drop-kids-off-at-school-in-bike.html

Death traps according to some.

http://www.cyclecraft.co.uk/digest/sustrans1.html

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Geoff