TIL: The #WhiteBicycle, nowadays used as a symbol for cyclists being killed by (car) traffic was originally an anarchistic way to get people to switch away from cars by the dutch Provo movement. A white bicycle was sort of public domain. Take it, ride it, put it out in public so the next person can take it too. Very good podcast episode. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/
De Fiets is Niets - 99% Invisible

Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands to learn how to create good bike infrastructure. But none of

99% Invisible
The car free Sundays during the oil crisis in the 1970s caused the Netherlands to switch to the bicycle friendly policy many people now admire. While Germany couldn't care less. The last third of the podcast explains that difference in a truly harsh way. That made me LOL on my bicycle commute from work. In Munich. As a dutch guy :)
@jwildeboer sometimes I think it takes the typical Dutch rudeness to be able to survive riding a bicycle in a city… Loud and obnoxious adds to your safety :-)