Originally Posted by
Lurch
Nevertheless, I don't think carrying an open umbrella on a bike is going to catch on. The fellow in question rode past the van Gogh museum one morning while we were standing in line to enter. He wove out of sight down the street waving that umbrella in the breeze.
I saw cyclists do it all the time during the 10 years I lived in Germany. My own daughter sometimes did it. One woman who had her dog on a leash in one hand while she biked past my house every morning for the five years I lived near Heidelburg always had an umbrella in the other when it was raining; the hand with the leash was the one on the handlebars.