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Mind your language

Can the beer-bike take on the Boris-bike?

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

In Amsterdam the courts have given leave to ban the bierfiets. Fiets is the Dutch for ‘bike’. (The plural is fietsen.) A bierfiets is a float on which a dozen people sit on high seats facing each other across a narrow bar running fore and aft, enjoying their beer and pedalling away to power the vehicle.

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