My wife and kids are Polish citizens with passports. My wife is first generation American.
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This is so funny. I was reading @acromouse and @Mno talking about this earlier but had no time to respond. I grew up in a huge bike household. We had them all. My last car had a permanent bike rack. I currently own 5. A mountain bike, a beach cruiser, a haro trick bike, a 1980 schwin scrambler, and thisâŚ
I am also Dutch 
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You must be if you own 5 (!) bicycles! 
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I am not dutch, but I own a bike.
My wife IS dutch (half), and doesnât own a bike (or even half a bike).
I have been surrounded by bikes in the Netherlands⌠Iâm confused.
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Dutch bike storage. My best bike is upstairs. Scared it would get stolen down here, which is an existential Dutch dread
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It might run the risk of getting scratched!! 
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Do you know that they have indoor parking garages for bikes, huge ones?
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Bakfiets are great!
However with our topography here - up and down the hills all the time - neither the brakes nor the motor would make it.
So instead we have a Bullitt like this one.
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The foldables are also great fun, especially on trips as they fold about the size of a medium sized luggage.
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The trailer is nice for all kinds of bigger transport situations.
And this one is basically a crazy tandem with extended transport options.
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We have a locked bike room here in our apartments. Itâs the most broken into area of the place and many a bike went to stolen heaven. Along with the catalytic converters which get jacked up and stolen in front of your very eyes sometimes. No one challenges the thieves as they have weaponsâŚI once found a knuckle duster on my wheel arch 
So. I have no bike and I have a shit car that no one wants. With no catalytic converter.
In principle I think bikes are amazing and really awesome, but Iâll stick to my spin classes. No chance of getting bumped off there.
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Yeah, bike theft is a thing. Some cities offer guarded parking or actually safe bike garages. But there are usually not enough of them available.
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Reminds me of my almost heart attack moment from last year in southern France. They only stole my stinking old helmet and probably were disturbed for the other lock.
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You mean someone broke your lock, stole your helmet and left your bike 
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Yeah. The main lock was a better one so maybe it would have taken them 10 sec longer to brake. Lucky me. 
I had to drive home quasi naked and felt very very insecure driving without a helmet there. And everytime ever after I said a last goodbye to my bike when I had to leave it at the train station. Not a good idea in general but the only way to get to the station and then further. Ah, some memories 
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Next time you visit Ireland we need to organise a meet up my friend
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No doubt about it!
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Would you ratherâŚ
- Live the dream
- Die trying
- Yes
0 voters
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@Mno That looks identical to the shed my ex and I stored ours in! I think we had 9 working in total 
Plus numerous parts and frames to be âfixed upâ. We dealt with theft issues so we padlocked the door.
@One4theroad @acromouse When I was in grade school, I locked my bike to a chain link fence. After school one day, my bike was laying next to it on the ground. Someone stole my lock!!!
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When I did my Erasmus year many many years ago. A front wheel was stolen from a bike. There was no garage where I lived in Strasbourg back then, only an official note to lock your bike with two locks 
when I later lived across the boarder in close proximity to Strasbourg, 1 bike was stolen out of the house. And my new and first motorcycle. 
Ahhh. 
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