December 6th is possibly the biggest holiday of the year for the Dutch. We put out our shoe, we write gedichten, we play pranks on each other, and we exchange gifts. As luck would have it, the good old Sint made a stop by the Velominati Headquarters in Seattle and left me an absurdly large bottle of dry lube; the the point where I felt like I need to explain what it is for. (I use a lot of that stuff, you know, on my chain – because I ride in the rain every day this time of year. I swear.)
Take a dive into the archives and have a look at our 2010 article on the subject for a full background on why December 6th is the real Christmas and why the Dutch (and I assume at least the Belgians) rule so much harder at holidays than the rest of the world, except maybe the Jewish community, since they figured out how to make the gift-giving last an entire month and everyone knows that’s pretty hard-core.
In any case, from the bottom of my heart, thanks to everyone in our humble little community, and I wish you each a Gelukkig Sinterklaas.
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Has anyone ever ridden a bike on St Kilda? Now that would be a Cogal - admittedly quite a short one.
@the Engine
You could quite easily MTB your way round the island but the tree hugging shepherds would probably lynch you for disturbing the Soay sheep which are apparently indigenous and very rare...
@Deakus For a moment ... I thought Chris Froom had joined us!
"@Chris From the recent visits. It's not all bad!"
@ChrisO
See #2.
@DerHoggz
"he leaves a pack of Kools beneath your pillow"
Hilarious!
@Chris
Correction, pilot error has done it again.
@the Engine
Well, yes.
We even have Amazons to take cars of errant drivers.
@mouse You might need to explain that, you have lost me there....it's probably me being dim but it has been a long week and I am stuggling to make the connection....so feel free to point out the bleeding obvious and make me look an idiot! (cue the ever reliable emoticon....wink!)
Ah.
There be a place in Aus named St. Kilda. Has probably the busiest road cycling traffic volume in the world.
@mouse
Er...yeah...not quite...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland