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Amsterdam Sisterly Love

Posted On: April 11, 2011
Posted In: amsterdam, Amsterdamize, dinking, dutch bicycles, fiets, fietsen, nederland, netherlands, nieuwmarkt, people on bicycles, Photos, side saddle, zeedijk
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As witnessed on the corner of Nieuwmarkt and Zeedijk last week.

http://www.theurbancountry.com James Schwartz

Lovely!
http://twitter.com/Mr_McLaughlin Andy Mclaughlin

Love it! Saw a couple of girls adopting this means of getting around just the other week here in sunny Dundee…first time I’d seen it outside of NL or Denmark!
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a sign of good things to come!
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:)
Anonymous

Beautiful – yet to see it here in daytime!!! – though my 2 girls do occasionally dink each other at night (how brave is the little ’sis’ of Pip???)
http://www.bicyclecanberra.blogspot.com Martin

Thats because its illegal to ” Dink” on a bike in Australia unless the bike is made for two people. I sometimes dink my son home from school and get ominous looks from other parents who roll up in huge people movers.
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BRAVE, Sue! I’m not surprised, she’s an Abbott! Also, having seen Pip do ‘Swan Lake’ on a bike :)
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Keep at it, Martin, that ‘ll show ‘m! :)
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“Dinking” is illegal in Denmark and Germany and in the latter a lot of people zip-tie baskets to their rear racks. So it is not just illegal but impossible. Stupid law. Anti-social and actually counter to the German Law of Maximum Speed and Mobility. In Berlin, a retailer of the Workcycles Fr8 – the bike Marc uses – mentions the big rear rack on the bike which can carry people, BUT that it is illegal to do this under German law (some people do it but almost always “American style” with leg on either side like you are riding a horse or something.) Riding two abreast here is also illegal. I know that Germany has better conditions for cycling than many places – but the Netherlands is simply the best example for cycling. It is not about a special gene or culture or the sub-sea level elevation of a part of the country squeezing people’s brains to make them do it, or maybe it is since land there is precious. Germany – or at least Berlin – is better or more free in other ways. The Netherlands has other problems from certain politicians to an increasing paranoia mostly outside of Amsterdam. And lots of people in NL still drive their cars too much of the time.
http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

For half a second, I was thinking, “Dundee, Illinois, USA??”
http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

The Chicago law is quite vague on this:

“No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped.”
http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

The Chicago law is quite vague on this:

“No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped.”
http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

The sisters even have the same shoes. Cute.
Edelman

Well then, contact some lawyers and test out the law by carrying your sister (or brother…). But a rear rack would need to be tested for 100kg so it could handle most people. I am sure that that bike I mention can handle that but is tested for lower. So then maybe these means that people who sell bikes like this in the US market will need to get an extra certification. Maybe get all the people who sell Workcycles together once you have found out more, or talk to them first.
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i love that they have matching shoes!
BigBlackBike

Yes, matching shoes and the creamy white tires make it all work togetherly nicely.
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http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

I dink quite often on my Yuba Mundo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbondsv/tags/dinking
http://www.greenidea.eu Green_Idea_Factory

Hi, Steven. Yes please dink away!

Very recently I asked the main legal counsel for ADFC and also the head of the German two-wheeler industry (or something like that) about the German ban on rear rack riding…

The former said no one was working for a change and the latter said that making it legal would require all sorts of b.s. and, besides, the penalty was only EUR 5-. I suggested to him that the point should not be to make new regulations, but just to get rid of the penalty. So no progress there…

So people continue to tie these ugly racks to the back of bikes. I mentioned this only thing to a lovely friend who has a box on the rear of her bike: As we passed a couple of women walking with one bike I said that in “Holland” (generalizing) that one would be riding on the back as a matter of course. This was kind of news to her.

I actually wish they would ban those rear baskets. They are ugly and make bikes ugly.