General Cycling Discussion - Sat 10 May - National Bike Day in Holland

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davehorne
05-10-03, 02:21 AM
This is amazing ... the front page our newspaper had 1/4 of the front page dedicated to bikes. There were photos of every type of bike; today is 'National Bike Day'. They also gave the brand name and the price as representative examples.

More than 100 people died when they were sucked out of a plane at 33,000 feet and they got about four inches of one column (page 1).

I always make fun of the Dutch newspapers ... they're probably no different than anyone else with local news sometimes being more important than the rest.

At any rate, these folks take biking seriously. I tried to provide you with a photo of the front page, but the web site http://www.brabantsdagblad.nl/regioportal/BD/0,2622,1363-Voorpagina,00.html did not show everything from the printed version.

Dave


davehorne
05-10-03, 02:41 AM
Here is a site with a great deal of info re National Bike day ... http://www2.holland.com/nl/index.html?page=http://www2.holland.com/nl/actief/fietsen/fietsdag/

The few people here who read Dutch may appreciate this. At first I thought this site was exclusively about biking and this national day. I went back and edited this.

Don't yell at me ... I sometimes get excited about something and write before thinking.

Guest
05-10-03, 06:38 AM
Be lucky.

I don't get the paper, but there was NO mention in the news about those people getting sucked out of the plane over the Congo. I had to read about it on Yahoo in that news section when I was getting ready to retrieve my email.

We have a Bike To Work Day on June 13th. Everyone who bikes in gets a free breakfast at the Daley Center under the Picasso statue. I wonder how much paper they'll devote to that?

I'll make sure I do pictures that day...

Koffee