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Guardian reader offers - Dutch bikes
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Posted 13 years ago #
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http://guardian.made.com/collection/hollander-collection
I wonder whether they'd be any good...
Posted 13 years ago # -
thanks for fixing my link!
Posted 13 years ago # -
The gents model is 17kg, has no gears and is described as "sporty".
I mean they are elegant bikes, practical even (weight and gearing aside), but not sporty!
Posted 13 years ago # -
But why do you need to ride them naked?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Min's right. That's a bit peculiar! Maybe you can only ride them on the WNBR. One for Photoshop Disasters perhaps?
Posted 13 years ago # -
You can use a tastefully positioned carrier bag. Or buy the cross bar version.
Is this what Holland is like?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Besides that her foot position on the pedal is terrible.
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and she ain't going far with the kickstand still down...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Uugg, cheap nasty Chinese copy of a bicycle, the nearest it has ever been to the Netherlands was on a container ship in the channel...
The Guardian should know better that to try and rip people off!
Posted 13 years ago # -
The blurb is a comedy act... except of course if you're on a low wage making the stuff....
Do they check environmental standard at factory. Guardian wouldn't want to support anything polluting?
This is the result of hyper-consumerism where everyone has to own everything but nothing must cost more than £150.
Who are we?
We are idealists. Children of the revolution. (Come on guys... in your dreams!)
A small team committed to fighting the big guys with the made.com vision. Obsessive about design and passionate about customers, we want to offer handpicked pieces with strict quality control guidelines. We search all four corners of the earth to source the best, specialist furniture makes - often those who make furniture for designer brands.
Sadly we always end up in the same corner of the world as the 'evil' businesses we're fighting against.
All retailers are part of the problem... I'd like more of my manufacturing to come from Europe at least. Even better if it was local.
In the end this low price offer just means that companies like Pashley lose more sales and slants the bike market towards Primark-land.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Not convinced by the bikes :/.
However, the vision of Holland as some sort of paradise where inoffensively pretty blonde women cycle in awkward nakedness into Ikea bookshelves is a rather attractive one.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Hey Guys & Gals!
I've lived in The Nederlands, and it isn't quite how you've all painted it to be.
In the summer its vastly hotter than here but I didn't see any people cycling 'zonder' clothing, and their fashion was decidedly dodgy. In the winter its bally baltic and no one would want to have their skin exposed! They all wore normal (non cycling spec) clothing and no one seamed in a hurry. I can see the appeal of riding 'zonder' clothing as one would be more acutly aware of any excess body tissues and would naturally want to look 'sporty and honed'.There were a few flinching times when I first arrived and saw cyclist exiting T junctions without a glance. The traffic accepted this and slowed down where roads joined from the right, half expecting a suicidle cyclist to cut out in front of them.
I was impressed at public buildings (train station and the like) where vast space was taken up by Sheffield type stands, as opposed to Scotland where bike parking is an add on which is not very convenient. Their dutch bikes have locks built into them (where the rear wheels brakes are attached, but there was no way of locking them to something immovable, so it doesn't negate the necessity to carry a sturdy D-Lock or chain. This means that bike theft is somewhat high.
Other than that you can buy real dutch bikes, I found some for sale when I originally looked into the Cycle to Work Scheme when I lived in Cambridge.
Vriendelijke groeten,
Dave C
Posted 13 years ago # -
"There were a few flinching times when I first arrived and saw cyclist exiting T junctions without a glance. The traffic accepted this and slowed down where roads joined from the right, half expecting a suicidle cyclist to cut out in front of them."
Is that not the rule though? That you give way to traffic exiting from junctions? Seems a bit odd but I guess it is what you are used to..
Posted 13 years ago # -
Yes I seam to recall 'Give Ways' operating opposite to ours, where cycles joining the road from the right have right of way.
Please don't try this here folks!!
Posted 13 years ago # -
My recent views of cycling in Amsterdam.
I will stop just posting links to stuff I've written. Honest...
Posted 13 years ago # -
@Anth at Work,
How refreshing, if it were the UK though you'd be arrested for taking pictures of children!Posted 13 years ago #
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