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Old 05-20-12 | 10:53 PM
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pullup
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I am glad someone was smarter than me and brought a camera along.
I had a great time looking at all the RIH's from different areas and especially talking to all the people.

It was a mixed and colourful bunch of people, indeed a couple of world champions Petra was there with her daughter also on a RIH, a couple of hipsters from the Pristine fixie shop on really cool bikes, some funny Rotterdam (the accent was unmistakable) guys on french blue Rihs who only (very shortly) shortly stopped smoking their cigars for the ride.
A lot of people who owned their RiH's for over 30 years and had seen half of Europe on them.

The best part was at the end of the ride when Wim stopped and visibly affected shook hands with everybody.
He sort of protested in his own Amsterdam way before the tribute started that it wasn''t necessary but you could see he had enjoyed the day very much.
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