i'm a guy who goes everywhere on a bicycle. I'm not a bike enthusiast; I just buy a relatively cheap one, run it till it's no good, then buy another. And I dress to ride the way I want to be dressed when I get where I'm going. I was looking for some pictures of bikes for a story i'm working on and i came across the webage of Brian Wilson, an American who has 83 photos of bicycles in Amsterdam taken during a holiday there. In Amsterdam nobody wears a helmet, they ride in their suits, in their nice dresses and it's common to see old people riding too, and everybody looks so fit and healthy.




Here's a kid in a regulation child safety seat, but she's standing up in it:


One of the commenters on the page sends his own photo: "It's our minister of social affairs who always rides a bike when coming to parliament. I know this is not in Amsterdam but in The Hague, but it's typical for our bicycle culture in The Netherlands." And another sends a photo of himself with his three grandkids and two dogs all on his bike with him. And he's smoking a pipe. What style.