>I had a bike impounded twice for parking it in a wrong place around the Zuid station
I'm pretty sure there are signs everywhere in Zuid station that should place your bike in the freely provided bike parking lots. If they would allow every one of the thousands of people coming in with a bike to just park it in front of the station randomly, nobody would be able to get into or out of the station.
It's just common sense man.
> new bikes that look like they are from the 20s.
Because we optimize for durability, not status, not speed nor features. We assume abuse and we leave our bikes unsupervised the majority of the time. It's not just stealing .. having a hard to physically destroy bike prevents annoying kids and drunk teenagers from vandalizing your bike.
>It's true that there are probably people who sweat, but there are very few people who take a shower at work
I haven't ever been in an office with a shower. I don't know any place where it would even be an option. But every person sweats a little every day anyway. Fresh sweet don't smell. It's the old sweat that smells.
Sure, I wasn't complaining. In fact I think they should do it more often. Since they sell the unclaimed bikes to second hand bike shops it would perhaps decrease the prices...
> we optimize for durability
That is true, but you have to agree that there could be durable bikes which don't have the oma/opa fiets look and come with a normal stand not that useless frame which tends to get loose after half a year and doesn't even keep the bike standing in moderate winds..
I'm pretty sure there are signs everywhere in Zuid station that should place your bike in the freely provided bike parking lots. If they would allow every one of the thousands of people coming in with a bike to just park it in front of the station randomly, nobody would be able to get into or out of the station.
It's just common sense man.
> new bikes that look like they are from the 20s.
Because we optimize for durability, not status, not speed nor features. We assume abuse and we leave our bikes unsupervised the majority of the time. It's not just stealing .. having a hard to physically destroy bike prevents annoying kids and drunk teenagers from vandalizing your bike.
>It's true that there are probably people who sweat, but there are very few people who take a shower at work
I haven't ever been in an office with a shower. I don't know any place where it would even be an option. But every person sweats a little every day anyway. Fresh sweet don't smell. It's the old sweat that smells.