Any interest in a Dutch-style bike rider gathering?
Posted: May 28th, 2018, 10:23 pm
I was convinced my next bike should be a Dutch-style a few years back after reading some streets.mn posts on bikes. Walker Angell, and a few others, mentioned the virtues of the Dutch-style bike over the popular over-the-handle-bars style. I had given up riding bikes because of back and neck problems riding in that position.
I took an opportunity to try out a few Dutch-style Workcycles bikes and I was sold, I could go bike riding again. I looked at a few brands of Dutch-made bikes like Gazelle and others but settled on a customized Workcycles Gr8.
I’ve ridden it around the streets and trails of Hopkins and SLP, with an occasional long outing to the Midtown Greenway. I’ve gotten remarks how unusual it is, requests for photos even, but I rarely see sit up, Dutch-made bikes.
I have been thinking that in a metro of over 3 million people there had to be a few owners of Dutch brand (or Danish brand) sit up style bikes. Gazelle, Velorbis, Workcycles, Umberto Dei, Retrovelo, etc.
Is there an organization that organizes a meet up of Dutch-made bikes? Is anyone here an owner of a Dutch-made bike that would want to have a meet up of fellow Dutch-made bike lovers?
I’d love to see all the Workcycles in Minnesota in one place some day.
I took an opportunity to try out a few Dutch-style Workcycles bikes and I was sold, I could go bike riding again. I looked at a few brands of Dutch-made bikes like Gazelle and others but settled on a customized Workcycles Gr8.
I’ve ridden it around the streets and trails of Hopkins and SLP, with an occasional long outing to the Midtown Greenway. I’ve gotten remarks how unusual it is, requests for photos even, but I rarely see sit up, Dutch-made bikes.
I have been thinking that in a metro of over 3 million people there had to be a few owners of Dutch brand (or Danish brand) sit up style bikes. Gazelle, Velorbis, Workcycles, Umberto Dei, Retrovelo, etc.
Is there an organization that organizes a meet up of Dutch-made bikes? Is anyone here an owner of a Dutch-made bike that would want to have a meet up of fellow Dutch-made bike lovers?
I’d love to see all the Workcycles in Minnesota in one place some day.