Timeline for What makes the bicycles in Amsterdam suitable for riding with jeans on?
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| Nov 23, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | Kyralessa | @uglycoyote You can get Velcro straps to tie around your pant legs to avoid this problem. Or you can tuck your pant lets into your socks (but I think that looks kind of stupid). | |
| Nov 20, 2018 at 23:50 | comment | added | uglycoyote | To me, the chainguard seems like the answer. Bike commuting in Vancouver, i have always worn normal street clothing, and I agree that it is (mostly) not a problem, even for a half-hour ride. The one caveat is that I do tend to get oil stains on the inside bottom of all my pairs of pants (from rubbing up against the chain). I would be curious if the Dutch have this problem, but I imagine that stylish Europeans are less willing to accept having stains on all of their favourite pants, and therefore chain guards come standard. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | Paul de Vrieze | Except the skirt guards are somewhat fragile. Especially among teenagers they tend to live short lives. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 10:23 | comment | added | gerrit | Apart from mud guards / fenders, don't forget the skirt guards! For a time, I thought that those were the same, until I realised not all bicycles have mud guards / fenders. | |
| Nov 18, 2018 at 1:36 | comment | added | Brian | Are you saying that to cycle fast, we should do vehicular cycling? This writer didn't seem to think that Dutch cycle paths are holding us up. aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/… | |
| Nov 17, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | John Keates | Yep, this is pretty much what we do in The Netherlands. As a Dutch citizen myself in generally smaller cities we do the same thing. Biking isn't a special occasion, and together with walking just a highly efficient way to get around. For certain destinations or activities you'd still use a car (say, weekly household groceries, moving furniture or most distances above 15Km, or destinations without good public transportation). But most of the time you'll see people using a bike wearing whatever they happen to be wearing. | |
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| Nov 17, 2018 at 21:33 | history | answered | Karl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |