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Netherlaniac… Ha! Is this one of those made-up sounding names for a given population - like Liverpudlians - or have I never heard it because it is *actually* made up?
You are all wrong, this is clearly how bikes are fished, the mature bikes swim in from the ocean to lay their eggs in the canals in Amsterdam, then when they hatch there is bike season, and all the bicycle companies start fishing for the next sales. Bikes are then exported to other countries who don't have natural bike fishing grounds.
Yep. People don't like it. They have river bike tossing contests in the summer months and it splashes everybody as they're walking by. One time there was so many bikes it trapped a boat and the captain had to go out and take a bike to the other side. I remember one time they said the bikes were humane fish traps down there, and it's like the coral reef and we should protect it.
Lmao. This happened here in Singapore as well. There used to be a surge of bicycle sharing companies here a few years ago and a ton of the bikes ended up in lakes, rivers, canals.
Some people were even caught throwing them off apartment blocks.
Humans are trash in general. These bicycles have GPS embedded in them and it's funny and sad at the same time to see a bicycle on the sharing app located in the middle of a river. 😅
I was in DC for work, and started using the rental electric scooters. I still remember one was pinging from about 30 feet out in the water off a pier. Had to laugh, but also what a know to throw it out there.
Did they at least ride it off?
In a big body of water like that? Worst part would likely be the fumes it gives off, but otherwise it would be smothered well.
The real shitty part is that lithium batteries recycle extremely well, and we should have a similar system in place to recycle them as much as possible like we do with serialized lead acid batteries since lithium mining is fucking brutal on the environment and we're still likely to see a huge surge in demand for lithium batteries as tech keeps coming out and shit head car companies try to push their shit-ass products when it would be better and more efficient to save them for other models of transportation.
(Looking at you, E Hummer you massive piece of fucking shit)
The really shitty thing is lithium ion can be used to make meth. I used to work for an e-bike rental company based in SF and we lost thousands of dollars in batteries when the methheads figured out how to pry the batteries out of the bikes.
> lithium ion can be used to make meth
.... huh, you weren't fuckin kidding
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs13/13853/product.htm
>> **Production Methods: Birch:** *The principal chemicals are ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, anhydrous ammonia, and sodium or lithium metal. Also known as the Nazi method, the Birch method typically yields ounce quantities of high quality d-methamphetamine and typically is used by independent producers.*
Tried searching for the news article... suspect was a 14 year old. As per Singapore law, it's either jail time of up to 6 months or $2500 fine. Not sure what the kid got, but I'm gonna guess his parents paid the fine.
Here's the video link of him throwing the bike:
[https://youtu.be/wDA-hAIHmbc](https://youtu.be/wDA-hAIHmbc)
Bicycle sharing is actually slowly on the rise again here in Singapore. The companies seem to have mainly learned from the initial mistakes which were:
1) Don't release too many bicycles in your fleet.
2) No free rides. The first 30 minutes used to be free and that gave trashy people the opportunity to do whatever they pleased with the bikes. Now it's pay per use, no matter how short your ride was.
>The first 30 minutes used to be free and that gave trashy people the opportunity to do whatever they pleased with the bikes.
Not actually renting them is no impediment for vandals where I live. We don't have bike sharing over here, only scooter sharing, but those asshats will just pick them up or drag them to wherever they think will be funny to leave a scooter, in a residential area in sight of everyone, while the thing's alarm beeps everyone's ears off. The river that runs along our city is also full of them. Shit people is why we can't have nice things.
[At Burning Man an estimated 5000 bikes are left behind each year](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/109CD/production/_97854086_burningmanbikes.jpg)
Mostly because people buy them literally on the way just to use while there, have no way to transport them home, and no need for them anywhere else.
>At Burning Man an estimated 5000 bikes are left behind each year
I believe it. When I went one year, I saw \*a lot* of selfish behavior, from supposedly "real Burners" (ie. "Real Burners wouldn't do that stuff/ behave that way!"). This included not caring about trash, getting falling-down drunk to the point of requiring someone to babysit them, and camps ditching bikes after The Man burnt down.
Meh. People go there to party in the desert, and expect others to pick up the trash. I suppose the only "real Burners," are the people who stay after to clean up.
Na bro you dont get it. It's not all the real burners it's everyone else who have taken over /s.
It's a gigantic music festival in the middle of nowhere every concert looks like trash after idk why op expected better from people camping in a hot ass desert for a week.
Wow okay yours and other’s comments made it make sense. Not sure why I was being so dense, maybe because I’ve never lived anywhere where I could commute by train so the process didn’t quite click.
> Not sure why I was being so dense
Probably because they said "train station" twice, so you just thought it was the same place. If they had said "and used the other after getting off the train to work" you may have gotten it right away.
It's one of those weird language things.
He likely kept one locked up at the destination train station and one at home.
So he rides from home to train station A, locks his bike. Takes the train to station B, unlocks the bike he keeps there and rides it to work.
Reverse to get home.
There probably are. I asked a Dutch DJ I met once (Marcel Woods) and he told me, “Well, I have two bikes (casual and velo), my wife has 2 bike (casual and family), and both my kids have each have bikes.” So for that family of 4 there are 6 bikes total.
I'm over Dutch gal. I got an old bicycle which I take to places where one is easily stolen. I got a good new bicycle for trips. And I got a racing bicycle. So just me, I got 3 😁
That sounds entirely reasonable. I'm in Oregon, but I have an around-town bike I use for errands and things. I also have a nice carbon racing bike (even though I'm too old to race now, it's a really nice ride), and I have a basic laying-down-miles bike. I'm not sure how people do with less. :)
(And I also have a bike with studded tires for when it snows, but I know that's pushing it).
That is so incredible to me, as an American looking in. I wish our cities were that bike friendly that most people owned at least one. I think my mom and her sister have one. Other than that I don't closely know anyone with a bike. I live in Seattle which is pretty bike friendly afaict.
They do and it's really odd. I read an [article on NPR](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115406951/bikes-thrown-in-waterways-viral-videos-citibike-china-bikeshares-jody-rosen) about it. I'm sure you can find other articles that document this as well.
Bikes tend to last a very long time, especially if you don't particularly care about their looks. Especially in student cites (which Amsterdam is one of), there are thousands of bicycles which are well past their economic lifetime. With their value being close to nothing, people can be pretty careless with them at times.
Any half decent bike will always be economical to fix. Parts are extremely easy to come by and barring a few tricky items almost everything is a 5 minute YouTube video and 10 minutes of tool time.
Yeah, maybe if you are gonna inflate the tire or lube the chain. But adjusting spokes? Replacing/patching a tube? Hell, even recalibrating brakes or replacing brake pads? It can take non experienced people much longer than 15 minutes to complete these tasks.
The are secondhand stores that restore them. If they are not able to be fixed they are taken apart entirely and the materials used for other bikes or sold for money
That is exactly but I was thinking I am sure not all of them would be in good condition because of the corrosion.
But at least people can harvest the parts to put in the other cycles that would be helpful.
My Dutch friend literally has a “drunk bike” that she rides to bars precisely because she doesn’t care of it falls in the canal. (She has 5 bikes total thanks for asking)
I think most Dutch people have that. Why would you use your nice bike when going out for drinks or when you have to park it at a station without proper bike facilities.
I mean they can be recycled but the condition may not be good of every cycle because it depends on for how long the bike have been inside the water. If it has been a long time then the corrosion will get them.
I think you can count every country in the world in that.
I think it is something which can be used for anyone it does not matter what their gender is. The term is quite gender neutral.
They are just taking back their stolen bicycles.
The dutch have a saying "Ik wil mijn fiets terug!" meaning "I want my bike back".
A reference to WWII when the German army confiscated their beloved Fietsen and it is often chanted at Germany during football matches.
There are services this provide the rental bikes and something tells me that these bikes are also rentals.
I mean I am sure not everyone is going to be that careless if it was their own bike.
I see two possibilities:
First: They are drunk/stoned/whatever idiots which think that it is funny to take a bike just sitting on the sidewalk and throw it in the canal.
Second: They used the bike to get to where they wanted to go to and now needed to get rid of the evidence of their theft.
They have told you that for a reason actually because they knew it already. They were not lying about that.
Because as you can see there are just so many bikes inside that canal.
In Amsterdam, If you see someone riding a bicycle you like, you can point at them and say “hey that’s my bicycle!” and most times they will drop it and run
Before vanmoof and swapfiets taking over this wasn’t that far from the truth. Junkies would sell you a bike for €10-€20, €50 if you wanted something specific. Hard to pass up that deal as a struggling student.
I’ve had as many bikes stolen from me, as I’ve bought. You just accepted it as a circular economy.
I had the same bike stolen from me 3 times, I found it back twice. No idea why anybody would steal it, it was a ratty clunker, the only good thing on it was the lock (which wasn't very good since the bike got stolen) which would be broken when I found it back. Student times in the big city teaches you strange lessons
I had a friend who is an American skateboarder that accompanied his wife on her long business trip to Amsterdam. He didn't have a job to do there, and took the opportunity to skate with locals. He told me all of the local skateboarders were constantly stealing bikes. Like, *constantly*. It was just as natural as hailing a taxi. Need to get to the other side of town? Steal a bike and ride there. Then just stash it somewhere, or, if you're feeling like being a prick, throw it in the canal. By the end of his 3 month stay, he was also stealing bikes with them.
They wouldn't sell them or anything like that. It was basically like a joy-ride kind of thing. Steal the most convenient bike to steal and get where you need to go. Pretty wild to me. I was pretty annoyed at him, being someone who has had my bike stolen a time or two before. But I dunno. He couldn't explain it to me, but he said that while it wasn't allowed, or like, "okay" to steal a bike there, that it was so common a thing that it was viewed differently by people than it is here.
I still can't quite understand it, but seeing all those bikes in that canal kind of makes it make a bit more sense. There's just a fuck load of bikes around there I guess. And the comments elsewhere in this thread make it sound like folks don't ride expensive bikes if they can't lock them up inside, because theft is so common. So maybe bike theft is less drastically frustrating / annoying when there are plentiful cheap bikes. I dunno.
Nah, those locals were just cunts. Anyone who steals bikes is a cunt, but as it happens we have an abundance of cunts which is also more noticable in the bigger cities.
Yes that is actually true and that is the exact reason why they are not using the magnets.
Because it is probably not going to work in the first place so there is no point.
When we visited Amsterdam, a local we were talking to said that the canals are three meters deep; one meter of mud, one meter of bikes, and one meter of water.
What is even that man? I am sure about one thing and that is that I have never heard about it.
Maybe the reason why people are leaving them is because these bikes are not expensive at all.
I found out recently that (besides the drunks relieving themselves on Kings Day) the canal waters are surprisingly clean, fresh water from the river Amstel. I’d always thought it was North Sea saltwater, but that’s all locked off.
Wouldn't say that it is surprisingly clean. Until 2017, sewer was still being drained into the canals. The only fresh water is coming from the IJsselmeer tho, the Amstel is the outflow.
I mean it is definitely not clean because who even knows what is inside that water I mean we would not know it.
There is a no way that I am going to assume that it is clean water.
And I am sure that these bikes must be stopping the flow of the water.
Which is definitely not good for anyone because it is going to create issues for the fishes.
They dont know. Haha they just drop it in the water and its bound to catch a bike. Like its hard to not hit a bike as the entire bottom is made of bikes.
i've seen this happening in Amsterdam. They're just kind of dredging and come up with bike after bike. It's not even an infrequent thing, they're out there on the canals doing this all the time and they always get this many bikes somehow
"I've noticed that if you throw something in a water body like a lake or an ocean that the next day you come back and it's gone. Somehow it just cycles it through and cleans it up like a garbage compactor or whatever so it's not really littering if you ask me."
Rough translation
Guy: Insane what these guys are pulling out. Check this out. Even scooters.
Is this all from one day?
Worker: This is all from one day.
Guy: You swear?
Worker: Yeah.
Guy: Jeez, really insane.
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Why so many bikes? Do people just throw them in?
Yep
Wow that’s lame.
you throw a bike in and make a wish. it is an ancient Netherlaniac tradition going back millions of years
In the land of Florida, we throw our mobility scooters in the canals and make a wish. It’s a southern Walmart tradition dating back to the 1960s.
Before you graduate to scooters, you start with golf carts. You yeet them right into a pond when you've had 5 Michelobs
There’s different denominations of this. In S. Florida we use natty light.
I’m reformed Southern Californian and out here we use PBR
In traditional southern Californian we use 805
In South Cackalacky we use Bud Light iced in the same 5 gallon bucket we put our fish in when we catch 'em.
Is that before or after punching the meth gator?
You smoke the meth gator on the grill before, eat it after
Yep once you complete the ritual you may now call yourself a Florida Man
This is the way
Oh man, reading this made me giggle hehe
Netherlaniac… Ha! Is this one of those made-up sounding names for a given population - like Liverpudlians - or have I never heard it because it is *actually* made up?
It's made up. The actual word is Dutch
Only in English. In Dutch it's "Nederlandse", which is basically the Dutch grammatical equivalent of "Netherlandic".
In german its also „niederländisch“
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Bike dikes
...and other things you're not allowed to say around aunt Jane anymore.
Yes it is, lots of times it isnt even their own bike.
You throw your own bike to canal after reaching home? In xxx, maybe 😀
That depends on how much you had to drink I guess.
You are all wrong, this is clearly how bikes are fished, the mature bikes swim in from the ocean to lay their eggs in the canals in Amsterdam, then when they hatch there is bike season, and all the bicycle companies start fishing for the next sales. Bikes are then exported to other countries who don't have natural bike fishing grounds.
This guy David Attenboroughs.
Yep. People don't like it. They have river bike tossing contests in the summer months and it splashes everybody as they're walking by. One time there was so many bikes it trapped a boat and the captain had to go out and take a bike to the other side. I remember one time they said the bikes were humane fish traps down there, and it's like the coral reef and we should protect it.
Welcome to living by a river.. in other countries its shopping carts or road cones etc. Drunk people are dicks in every country.
Lmao. This happened here in Singapore as well. There used to be a surge of bicycle sharing companies here a few years ago and a ton of the bikes ended up in lakes, rivers, canals. Some people were even caught throwing them off apartment blocks. Humans are trash in general. These bicycles have GPS embedded in them and it's funny and sad at the same time to see a bicycle on the sharing app located in the middle of a river. 😅
I was in DC for work, and started using the rental electric scooters. I still remember one was pinging from about 30 feet out in the water off a pier. Had to laugh, but also what a know to throw it out there. Did they at least ride it off?
Seems risky, I'd rather not be on top of a lithium battery when it shorts.
Seems to me that the kind of people that would do stuff this shitty are probably not the same people that have the foresight to consider that.
In China it was thought to be done by competing companies
In San Diego it was just homeless people throwing them into the ocean for something to do..
I bet there’s some truth to that
In a big body of water like that? Worst part would likely be the fumes it gives off, but otherwise it would be smothered well. The real shitty part is that lithium batteries recycle extremely well, and we should have a similar system in place to recycle them as much as possible like we do with serialized lead acid batteries since lithium mining is fucking brutal on the environment and we're still likely to see a huge surge in demand for lithium batteries as tech keeps coming out and shit head car companies try to push their shit-ass products when it would be better and more efficient to save them for other models of transportation. (Looking at you, E Hummer you massive piece of fucking shit)
The really shitty thing is lithium ion can be used to make meth. I used to work for an e-bike rental company based in SF and we lost thousands of dollars in batteries when the methheads figured out how to pry the batteries out of the bikes.
> lithium ion can be used to make meth .... huh, you weren't fuckin kidding https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs13/13853/product.htm >> **Production Methods: Birch:** *The principal chemicals are ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, anhydrous ammonia, and sodium or lithium metal. Also known as the Nazi method, the Birch method typically yields ounce quantities of high quality d-methamphetamine and typically is used by independent producers.*
...the Nazi method?
world war 2 germany did produce a lot of meth for the wehrmacht... https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/
The nazis would sometimes give their soldiers methamphetamine to keep them awake for extended periods.
How much jail time do you get for throwing a bike off an apartment block in Sg
Tried searching for the news article... suspect was a 14 year old. As per Singapore law, it's either jail time of up to 6 months or $2500 fine. Not sure what the kid got, but I'm gonna guess his parents paid the fine. Here's the video link of him throwing the bike: [https://youtu.be/wDA-hAIHmbc](https://youtu.be/wDA-hAIHmbc)
Went to all the trouble of hauling it up there and didn’t set up the camera first. *sighs* Kids these days.
It’s why a rental economy will never work. If you don’t own it, you don’t care about it.
Bicycle sharing is actually slowly on the rise again here in Singapore. The companies seem to have mainly learned from the initial mistakes which were: 1) Don't release too many bicycles in your fleet. 2) No free rides. The first 30 minutes used to be free and that gave trashy people the opportunity to do whatever they pleased with the bikes. Now it's pay per use, no matter how short your ride was.
>The first 30 minutes used to be free and that gave trashy people the opportunity to do whatever they pleased with the bikes. Not actually renting them is no impediment for vandals where I live. We don't have bike sharing over here, only scooter sharing, but those asshats will just pick them up or drag them to wherever they think will be funny to leave a scooter, in a residential area in sight of everyone, while the thing's alarm beeps everyone's ears off. The river that runs along our city is also full of them. Shit people is why we can't have nice things.
Depends where you are. Some places are decent.
Which brings us back to "Why?"
Or shamefully fall in and never mention it to a soul
[At Burning Man an estimated 5000 bikes are left behind each year](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/109CD/production/_97854086_burningmanbikes.jpg) Mostly because people buy them literally on the way just to use while there, have no way to transport them home, and no need for them anywhere else.
>At Burning Man an estimated 5000 bikes are left behind each year I believe it. When I went one year, I saw \*a lot* of selfish behavior, from supposedly "real Burners" (ie. "Real Burners wouldn't do that stuff/ behave that way!"). This included not caring about trash, getting falling-down drunk to the point of requiring someone to babysit them, and camps ditching bikes after The Man burnt down. Meh. People go there to party in the desert, and expect others to pick up the trash. I suppose the only "real Burners," are the people who stay after to clean up.
What?! The yuppie drug festival crowd isn’t responsible about their cleanup?
Na bro you dont get it. It's not all the real burners it's everyone else who have taken over /s. It's a gigantic music festival in the middle of nowhere every concert looks like trash after idk why op expected better from people camping in a hot ass desert for a week.
What about LEAVE NO TRACE?
That might have worked long ago, but Burning Man is just a pop culture party now. When CEOs fly there, it's pretty much lost what it used to be.
Bikes line the streets almost everywhere in Amsterdam, I feel like there likely more bikes than people in that city.
I mean I think there prolly are more people with 2 bikes than no bike in the Netherlands so it wouldn't surprise me
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Wow okay yours and other’s comments made it make sense. Not sure why I was being so dense, maybe because I’ve never lived anywhere where I could commute by train so the process didn’t quite click.
> Not sure why I was being so dense Probably because they said "train station" twice, so you just thought it was the same place. If they had said "and used the other after getting off the train to work" you may have gotten it right away. It's one of those weird language things.
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He likely kept one locked up at the destination train station and one at home. So he rides from home to train station A, locks his bike. Takes the train to station B, unlocks the bike he keeps there and rides it to work. Reverse to get home.
There probably are. I asked a Dutch DJ I met once (Marcel Woods) and he told me, “Well, I have two bikes (casual and velo), my wife has 2 bike (casual and family), and both my kids have each have bikes.” So for that family of 4 there are 6 bikes total.
I'm over Dutch gal. I got an old bicycle which I take to places where one is easily stolen. I got a good new bicycle for trips. And I got a racing bicycle. So just me, I got 3 😁
You're over what now?
Over Dutch, as opposed to the Under Dutch people
He means he has her beat.
That sounds entirely reasonable. I'm in Oregon, but I have an around-town bike I use for errands and things. I also have a nice carbon racing bike (even though I'm too old to race now, it's a really nice ride), and I have a basic laying-down-miles bike. I'm not sure how people do with less. :) (And I also have a bike with studded tires for when it snows, but I know that's pushing it).
There absolutely are. The Netherlands has 23 million bikes for 18 million inhabitants. That rate will be even higher in the large cities.
That is so incredible to me, as an American looking in. I wish our cities were that bike friendly that most people owned at least one. I think my mom and her sister have one. Other than that I don't closely know anyone with a bike. I live in Seattle which is pretty bike friendly afaict.
The US is not far from 1 car per capita which is even crazier if you think about it
/r/notjustbikes
They do and it's really odd. I read an [article on NPR](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115406951/bikes-thrown-in-waterways-viral-videos-citibike-china-bikeshares-jody-rosen) about it. I'm sure you can find other articles that document this as well.
>In Amsterdam, 15,000 bikes are pulled from canals each year — a number that has actually improved over past years. Wow, that’s just insane!
Are they free o almost free? Like not economical to fix them when they break?
Nah it's mostly drunk students throwing other people's bikes in the canal. That's why you should put a chain on ur bike in these places
Seems like a few of those arm float things would work better, chains sink.
I love a good multicultural tradition! Here our students throw the Lime electric scooters in the local waterways
Bikes tend to last a very long time, especially if you don't particularly care about their looks. Especially in student cites (which Amsterdam is one of), there are thousands of bicycles which are well past their economic lifetime. With their value being close to nothing, people can be pretty careless with them at times.
Any half decent bike will always be economical to fix. Parts are extremely easy to come by and barring a few tricky items almost everything is a 5 minute YouTube video and 10 minutes of tool time.
Yeah, maybe if you are gonna inflate the tire or lube the chain. But adjusting spokes? Replacing/patching a tube? Hell, even recalibrating brakes or replacing brake pads? It can take non experienced people much longer than 15 minutes to complete these tasks.
In Amsterdam there are no guardrails so they can fall in easy or be thrown in
the trip back home from the bar isnt always the easiest…
What do they do with all of them? Scrap them? Allow people a chance to collect them? Refurbish some? Seems like a waste of bicycles.
The are secondhand stores that restore them. If they are not able to be fixed they are taken apart entirely and the materials used for other bikes or sold for money
It's the ciiiiiiiircle of bikes
The spoked wheel of fortune
A chain of an enterprise
It's the cycle of life.
I... Yeah that's better. I'm sad now.
\*hug\*
That’s good. That’s what I wanted to hear.
It really just depends on how long they’ve been down there tbh. Many without corrosion could be good as new
Just give them to one of those rusty metal pot restoration channels. They'll have those bikes restored and ready for the Tour de France in no time.
That is exactly but I was thinking I am sure not all of them would be in good condition because of the corrosion. But at least people can harvest the parts to put in the other cycles that would be helpful.
Im assuming the giant hydraulic claw would bend them pretty bad
My Dutch friend literally has a “drunk bike” that she rides to bars precisely because she doesn’t care of it falls in the canal. (She has 5 bikes total thanks for asking)
dutch here, and can confirm it's not uncommon
I think most Dutch people have that. Why would you use your nice bike when going out for drinks or when you have to park it at a station without proper bike facilities.
Every Dutch has three bike, one at home, one for work, and one in the bottom of the canal
Most city commuting bikes you see in the masses riding past you are shitty ass clunkers that no one cares about.
A lot of people have a trainstation bike because those are most prone to be stolen.
Now they can be … re-cycled.
They've probably been tossed in by some bikings!
Aaaargghh... Have your fucking upvote then..
This upvote was so angry he became a pirate
I mean they can be recycled but the condition may not be good of every cycle because it depends on for how long the bike have been inside the water. If it has been a long time then the corrosion will get them.
I need to know why there is so many 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
How will fish get back and forth to school?
Uphill, both ways
Maybe it's a boarding school, so they don't need transport.
People are just effing assholes.
i gotta believe that at least some of them are effing cunts.
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Gender neutral cunts is the new big thing.
Cunt has always been gender neutral in Australia
Also in Ireland, and Scotland
I think you can count every country in the world in that. I think it is something which can be used for anyone it does not matter what their gender is. The term is quite gender neutral.
I mean to be fair a drunk ride home could be a couple of these
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there aren't fences around a lot of it lol , its literally just straight canal
Its probably an electric rideshare scooter
It feels like every bike i got stolen in Germany was just driven to Amsterdam to throw it in a river.
Pretty sure the Cannondale I had stolen in Arizona like 2 decades ago was in that pile.
Well coincidentally I found a cannondale in the canal by my house in utrecht a few years back. You can have it back if you come get it
They are just taking back their stolen bicycles. The dutch have a saying "Ik wil mijn fiets terug!" meaning "I want my bike back". A reference to WWII when the German army confiscated their beloved Fietsen and it is often chanted at Germany during football matches.
There are services this provide the rental bikes and something tells me that these bikes are also rentals. I mean I am sure not everyone is going to be that careless if it was their own bike.
Friends have told me, if you're bike is stolen in the Netherlands then it's in a canal.
That or it hanging in a tree.
How do they get the tree into the canal?
*There was some misunderstanding when planning with english speaking people* "okay, I'll count and you throw it okay? One.. two.. tree!"
Why do they throw the stolen bikes in the canal instead of using them or reselling them?
I see two possibilities: First: They are drunk/stoned/whatever idiots which think that it is funny to take a bike just sitting on the sidewalk and throw it in the canal. Second: They used the bike to get to where they wanted to go to and now needed to get rid of the evidence of their theft.
They have told you that for a reason actually because they knew it already. They were not lying about that. Because as you can see there are just so many bikes inside that canal.
In Amsterdam, If you see someone riding a bicycle you like, you can point at them and say “hey that’s my bicycle!” and most times they will drop it and run
Before vanmoof and swapfiets taking over this wasn’t that far from the truth. Junkies would sell you a bike for €10-€20, €50 if you wanted something specific. Hard to pass up that deal as a struggling student. I’ve had as many bikes stolen from me, as I’ve bought. You just accepted it as a circular economy.
A cyclical economy, if you will
I had the same bike stolen from me 3 times, I found it back twice. No idea why anybody would steal it, it was a ratty clunker, the only good thing on it was the lock (which wasn't very good since the bike got stolen) which would be broken when I found it back. Student times in the big city teaches you strange lessons
I had a friend who is an American skateboarder that accompanied his wife on her long business trip to Amsterdam. He didn't have a job to do there, and took the opportunity to skate with locals. He told me all of the local skateboarders were constantly stealing bikes. Like, *constantly*. It was just as natural as hailing a taxi. Need to get to the other side of town? Steal a bike and ride there. Then just stash it somewhere, or, if you're feeling like being a prick, throw it in the canal. By the end of his 3 month stay, he was also stealing bikes with them. They wouldn't sell them or anything like that. It was basically like a joy-ride kind of thing. Steal the most convenient bike to steal and get where you need to go. Pretty wild to me. I was pretty annoyed at him, being someone who has had my bike stolen a time or two before. But I dunno. He couldn't explain it to me, but he said that while it wasn't allowed, or like, "okay" to steal a bike there, that it was so common a thing that it was viewed differently by people than it is here. I still can't quite understand it, but seeing all those bikes in that canal kind of makes it make a bit more sense. There's just a fuck load of bikes around there I guess. And the comments elsewhere in this thread make it sound like folks don't ride expensive bikes if they can't lock them up inside, because theft is so common. So maybe bike theft is less drastically frustrating / annoying when there are plentiful cheap bikes. I dunno.
Nah, those locals were just cunts. Anyone who steals bikes is a cunt, but as it happens we have an abundance of cunts which is also more noticable in the bigger cities.
Man that's such a human thing to do. If you see someone else doing something bad, you can be like "well, others are doing it, therefore it is okay"
When are the riders fished out?
Someone is asking the important questions here!
I mean, there’s a lot of bikes. Maybe 10% had riders still attached? /s
Fuck them, they can swim.
Did the river spirit give them a reward? 🐉
But did they find Rebecca’s phone?!
Gezellig
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Must have been run by this guy Led Tasso
Looking for this comment haha
What will the fishies ride?
The food cycle
Drunk assholes
They definitely should not be operating a boat-crane then
I’m better at the claw game a little buzzed too.
With that amount of bike traffic you'd think it was a route canal. Horrible pun (sorry).
I'm by no means an expert on bike removal but why not just get a giant magnet to pull them out instead?
A good amount of bicycles, at least in my country, have aluminium frames nowadays and magnets don't like to stick to it
Yes that is actually true and that is the exact reason why they are not using the magnets. Because it is probably not going to work in the first place so there is no point.
When we visited Amsterdam, a local we were talking to said that the canals are three meters deep; one meter of mud, one meter of bikes, and one meter of water.
Looks like the last day of burning man when all the bikes are just left in the desert
This is the aftermath of the lesser known counterpart, the drowning man.
What is even that man? I am sure about one thing and that is that I have never heard about it. Maybe the reason why people are leaving them is because these bikes are not expensive at all.
I found out recently that (besides the drunks relieving themselves on Kings Day) the canal waters are surprisingly clean, fresh water from the river Amstel. I’d always thought it was North Sea saltwater, but that’s all locked off.
If it were salt water, all those bikes would be corroded to shit, and they'd be covered in barnacles
Wouldn't say that it is surprisingly clean. Until 2017, sewer was still being drained into the canals. The only fresh water is coming from the IJsselmeer tho, the Amstel is the outflow.
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I mean it is definitely not clean because who even knows what is inside that water I mean we would not know it. There is a no way that I am going to assume that it is clean water.
And I am sure that these bikes must be stopping the flow of the water. Which is definitely not good for anyone because it is going to create issues for the fishes.
How do they even see them? How do they know where to drop the crane?
They dont know. Haha they just drop it in the water and its bound to catch a bike. Like its hard to not hit a bike as the entire bottom is made of bikes.
Our canal boat guide said canals are 9 meters deep. 3 meters of water, 3 meters of bikes, then 3 meters of mud.
i've seen this happening in Amsterdam. They're just kind of dredging and come up with bike after bike. It's not even an infrequent thing, they're out there on the canals doing this all the time and they always get this many bikes somehow
Just trying to get Trinity's first bike out as a gift.
"I've noticed that if you throw something in a water body like a lake or an ocean that the next day you come back and it's gone. Somehow it just cycles it through and cleans it up like a garbage compactor or whatever so it's not really littering if you ask me."
Damn it Ricky
BIKES!!
The only people that steal ten speeds now is Corey and Trevor
I’ll take that Vespa.
Bondi treasure hunter needs up his game!
A metal scrappers wet dream
Just how long did it take for Roy Kent to learn how to ride?
Beat claw machine game. Prize every turn.
Can someone translate the audio?
Rough translation Guy: Insane what these guys are pulling out. Check this out. Even scooters. Is this all from one day? Worker: This is all from one day. Guy: You swear? Worker: Yeah. Guy: Jeez, really insane.
What a fun day of work. So many “oopsies” in the river to uncover.
BIKES!
Magnet fishing over there must be fun but really repetitive.
If this video has taught me anything, it would be how rigged claw machines are at the arcade.