The image shows a page out of a special offers leaflet from one of the chain stores in the Netherlands this week. Mostly they sell toothpaste, soap, nappies. In the UK a near equivalent might be "Boots" (the chemist). However this week there are also some special matching accessories for the person and bicycle.You can buy a matching belt, umbrella (useful for cycling in the rain), sun-glass holder (at the same time as an umbrella...), cycle saddle cover, panniers and removable bag for your bike basket. A few other items are on previous pages.
That's cycling as a natural thing for anyone to be doing. No sense of danger, no protective gear, just matching accessories to look trendy on your bike.
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ReplyDeleteI always search on the Halfords site for my gear. We where searching last summer for a tomtom. Not for the car but for the bicycle, couldn't find one except for the 'Fietsersbond' planningroute site.
I have pink panniers...on my pink omafiets. I do get odd looks here in the UK, but mostly compliments - such as 'ooh look at that lovely bike' etc.
ReplyDeleteI love riding it here, reminds me I must get out on it soon, its been a bit neglected of late!
(My panniers came from HEMA, a simliar store to the one in your post I think?)
I love reading your posts, and wish I could live in NL!
Matching pink sounds good too. Why not ?
ReplyDeleteI tend to think of HEMA as a bit more of a general purpose department store. Plenty of bike parts there too, of course, and such things as water proofs - including Jip en Janneke waterproofs for kids, and such like. Jip en Janneke were the first Dutch books I read - at the age of 40 - so a little older than most people read them.
Lidl UK are doing a special cycling promotion later this week, but I wouldn't call any of it fashionable! Cheap though.
ReplyDeleteAldi do cheap bits too. Both of those German chains do that over here too. However, what the Dutch retailers sell is a little different in emphasis.
ReplyDeleteI always think of Kruidvat as being quite like Superdrug.
ReplyDeleteI like to shop around for my bike gear as I find Halfords quite expensive sometimes.