I doubt that's true, but you never know. I DO know that you don't have to bother going to the police, to report it stolen, cause they won't do anything about it. There's hundreds, if not thousands of em stolen every day here, it's almost like everyone is "borrowing" someone elses bike for a little while. Most people i know don't bother buying a new one, they simply steal one themselves, and that completes the circle i guess. :D

[ 02-17-2003, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: johnny ]

I don't know the actual reason, but having seen a small bit of the country, I'd say it's because they have such beautiful places to ride the bikes in and it's worth the effort to see the scenery! [img]smile.gif[/img]

See Cloudy, you've only seen a small piece. They only show you the beautifull places and conviently forget the other [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I thought that was a national pasttime, stealing bikes i mean :D . Isn't it so that if everybody steals them, that everybody ends up with a bike again ?

yes, but the problem is, they now have points drivers license (which makes you lose your license really quick in the first few years, which is actually not a bad idea for our safety. But they also want to have 4 exams instead of one, the way of answering questions has been made more difficult (not a simple yes or no anymore). But my biggest gripe about it is the price of it all, the lessons start to be more expensive, the exams also and soon perhaps more often so even more expensive. So I'll probably try to convince my mom to teach me in secrecy a little bit, so I have a good start and have to take les lessons

Heh, all my last bikes have been solen except for the mountainbike as I didn't maintenance it well enough to be interesting :D

A lot of those stolen bikes end up in the water, somewhere smashed into a wall and otherweise being used for parts. Heh, I sometimes even think organised crime steels our bikes now and then as sometimes really good secured mountainbikes are being stolen by people in vans. They drive by and take the secured bike with them to open its locks in peace somewhere else :(

I had a mountain bike when I was little, but now I own a crappy bike which is literally falling apart. [img]smile.gif[/img] Do you live in Holland now Wellard?

I know I shouldn't be saying this, but so far my bike's never been stolen (it's a regular one, and quite shiny). Despite having lived in the Netherlands my entire life.
I'd almost say the national bikeswapping contests were a myth, if I hadn't lived in the Netherlands my entire life...

Maybe you're bike has never been stolen because you live in Urk, Legolas ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I thought that was a national pasttime, stealing bikes i mean :D . Isn't it so that if everybody steals them, that everybody ends up with a bike again ?</font>[/QUOTE]True, but after a night of heavy drinking on the town, and they ran out of cash for a cab, they always wind up looking for bikes,and when they are home, they just leave the bike outside, waiting for the next thief to come along. :D