"Old skool hooligans bikes" anyone know anything?

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i've just come back from cologne in germanyland where (as in most of urban continental yerp) it seems that everyone rides bikes as practical, cheap, healthy and non polluting urban transport. what's more they do without giving a flying fuck about 531, NJS or being "all italian".

Yep, they love these handlebars over there:

In London not even the squarest, boring 40-year old virgin would be seen with those.