I refer here not to the vehicles but to the game. The rules are simple, so much so that one can hardly claim to have invented it: you may not touch the ground, you seek to force your opponent to do the same. You can play a no-contact version and there is a certain elegance to the game when so played but it is altogether less fun without the crashes and the wrestling. It is just about my favorite game in the world, and almost no one will ever play it with me. Part of what made my recent trip to Amsterdam so wonderful was that someone did (the latter movie is much the shorter, for those of you pressed for time):
A close relative of this game, which we might call "biking through the crowded Vondelpark at speed on a heavily loaded bakfiets" is shown here (narration by Felix):
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