>>1344711They're the bike equivalent of a huge fucking luxo boat SUV that gets 3 MPG and driven through suburbia between parking lots. People who don't know what it's like to be on a bike read these travel rag spreads about the sophisticated Dutch, and automatically assume that what works in an extremely specific environment must work for everyone. Then they get on the internet and write these insane polemics about how anyone on a bike that isn't complete dogshit DOESN'T NEED THAT and should stop pretending to be Lance Armstrong and anyone who wears a helmet thinks he's racing. Then they go to their LBS and buy a massively overweight squeaky unusable "REAL AUTHENTIC DUTCH BIKE" made by a company with either "urban" or "brooklyn" in the name that costs $1500 for some incomprehensible reason, ride it once, fall over, OMG I MIGHT GET ALL SWEATY, maybe they wear a helmet anyway because the only thing better than "people with nice things don't need them" is "I don't want to wear one of those light and comfortable helmets because I hate faggy bike helmets I need a 7kg weimar republic war helmet with no vents and that sticks iron pikes in my brain" and they assume they have an ounce of credibility when in fact they should literally jump into the nearest heavily contaminated PCB canal and stick their head in the toxic muck until they've stopped breathing, please and thank you kys, kys, kys
