At 15:25 20/06/99 -0400, John Beekman wrote:
>Perhaps someone with knowledge of this experiment could provide details
>of the operation, and let us know how it turned out? Otherwise,
>thank-you for this interesting discussion.
As I understand it, East German gangs came to Amsterdam and stole all the
bikes. Amsterdam is more-or-less a bike borrowing place anyway... you just
steal yourself a bike. That's why all the bikes there are crap, and why
they dredge up large numbers of them every year or so.
Alister