yah i went to amsterdam in may, excited to see an extremely pro-bike culture....more excited thinking i would see lots of cool road/track bikes....and yes there are MILLIONS of bikes everywhere, like literally piles of them filling the streets. BUT they are pretty much ALL huge pieces of crap. Like, i did not see one nice road or track bike there out of the literally millions of beaters i couldn't NOT see (i know double neg but you know what i mean. you cant look anywhere and not see a bike)

ok i saw a few nice dutch bikes that looked like fun....

i knew i was going to see allot of dutch bikes (obviously) but i would think i would have seen at least a dozen nice non-dutch bikes....kind of disappointing (but the canal boat ride with free all you can eat gouda and all you can drink wine and a ridiculously hilarious tour guide more than made up for it)