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@French_Touch
Ha ha well the chap, called "Chef" was just a bit weird. I think he's probably well known in the hague for his 2nd hand bikes/repair shop, as he was really busy. Anyway he's a big ghanian guy with hair like a balding Ibrahim Ba who would just wander in an out of your conversation...
"You want AY LOCK? OK" then walk off and come back 2 minutes later with a screwdriver and start banging on other bikes then say "OH I forgot, AY LOCK..."
And we had to keep going back as the bike wasn't fixed (new back brakes) and would be done in "Ten minutes..." so we ended up there for over an hour over a couple of days. He certainly looked bemused when I tried to start up a conversation about Gazelle Champion Mondials... It was pretty funny at the time/telling it over a beer to someone who had also been to this shop, but doesn't really sound as amusing over the internet!