I lived in Utrecht for a year and a half and I've been to The Hague a few times. I'm a little confused. I don't remember seeing things any different there than

I lived in Utrecht for a year and a half and I've been to The Hague a few times. I'm a little confused. I don't remember seeing things any different there than Utrecht and in Utrecht we definitely locked up our bikes. Or do you just not count the wheel locks that every typical Dutch bike has built in? Even those, you really just use if you're running in somewhere real quick. If you're going to leave your bike out somewhere for more than 15 minutes or so, you'd still chain it up. The big difference vs somewhere like NYC (where I lived previously), is that you don't necessarily need the biggest and toughest locks (unless you have a really nice bike, which will definitely still be at risk of being stolen) and that bike racks and secure places to lock your bike are much more frequent. Dutch bikes are also generally heavy and chunky and have all their components (lights, seat, etc) pretty securely attached. In NYC even if you locked your bike up, if you had a halfway decent seat, that would get stolen if you didn't take it with you.