What is the origin of the tradition/style to put flowers on bike handlebars?
3d 59m ago by feddit.org/u/HaraldvonBlauzahn in bicycling
I was to a bike rally today (in Germany) for better road infrastructure.
A few different people there had put flowers on their bikes, attached to the handlebars. I think it looks quite nice, and thinking about it I have seen it in photos from the Netherlands. And maybe in the 80ies in my hometown Cologne, which is not that far from The Netherlands.
Now I am curious... Where does this tradition come from? Did it have a specific cause? Did it appear at a specific point in Dutch history? Just a kind of ornament, or something with deeper meaning?
Anybody knows more?
I think people like looking at flowers, so they put flowers on their stuff 🤭