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Huh? You didn't need to lock up your bike in The Hague? In every city in the Netherlands I'm aware of, bikes get stolen aallll the time. Only in villages and o
by azeirah 5y ago
Huh? You didn't need to lock up your bike in The Hague?
In every city in the Netherlands I'm aware of, bikes get stolen aallll the time. Only in villages and other rural areas can you trust the environment to not steal your bikes. That's because everybody knows each other, there's no chance you're going to get away with stealing a bike, there's a lot of trust.
But in a city? Was it in the outskirts?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIt's a context-sensitive metric. I would estimate that in Shanghai it took one to two months for my unlocked bike to get stolen. (I lost three bikes this way.) That doesn't sound great, but in San Francisco it'd be a matter of days.
- legitster 5y agoWhen I was in The Hague there were always a dozen bikes parked outside of every restaurant, shop, etc. Maybe they got locked up for longer term parking, but here in the states I have had a bike stolen while I was still within 15 feet of it.