BIKE: The dutch are so cool...

[Lane S. Wimberley]

Orange Offers Dutch Hands-Free Bike Phones
Reuters
Tue Feb 17,10:07 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Cyclists in the bike-mad Netherlands can get a
two-wheeler with a hands-free mobile phone kit if they become a
customer of wireless telecoms operator Orange, the carrier said on
Tuesday.

In the low-lying country with more pedal bikes than its 16 million
inhabitants, the plan was dreamed up by Bernard Uyttendaele, Orange's
Dutch chief financial officer who thought it unfair that only car
owners are offered hands-free calling kits.

The rest at ...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20040217/tc_nm/telecoms_orange_bicycle_dc

-Lane, who suspects he wouldn't talk on the phone while biking, even
if it were hands-free...    ...but still, the Dutch are cool...

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