Originally Posted by
tatfiend
Interesting. What kind of lighting on most Dutch bikes? I believe that in Germany dynamo lighting is required on all new transportation bikes sold. Only lightweight sports bikes are excluded per my understanding.
Most bikes use a dynamo with a light like this:
http://www.halfords.nl/NL/Fiets/Cata...oductId=705001
But, because those wires are really sensitive for errors led lights are also really popular.
About that bike culture thing, everyone has at lease one bicycle in the Netherlands. And we use it mostly for short trips in the city. So if you are going to visit a friend that lives in the same city you pick your old cheap bike for that 15 min's trip. Those people don't identifie them self as a 'cyclist', bikes are just to common here in the Netherlands.
cyclers are those people with a racing/mtb bike, who uses it for exercise or use it for longer trips then that 15 min's to a friend or the supermarket trip.
Ohw, and a picture of a common typical dutch bike
