It may be a small box, but it contains everything you need. You don’t need it to repair a puncture and if I have trouble with a valve, I just buy a replacement valve.

The box also contains valve rubber, but I wouldn’t know what to do with that. The box contains three tyre levers, a number of self-adhesive rubber patches, sand paper and tube solution (vulcanising glue).

Simson, type “Normaal” meaning standard or quite obviously ‘normal’. The only tools you need fit in a very small repair box that virtually every Dutch family has in the house. Not only the Dutch bicycles have a classic look, the tool boxes have a very 1930s feel as well. So how can we repair a flat tyre if we don’t even know how all that works? Easy: we don’t remove the wheel. Never mind the enclosed chain case that would also be in the way. I really haven’t a clue how it works exactly, but both the hub gear and the brakes are in there somehow. Dutch bicycle wheels, however, cannot be removed easily.

One of the many bicycle shops is of course happy to do the required maintenance on your bicycle, but repairing a puncture is considered so easy, that everyone should be able to do that. But there is one thing that almost every Dutch child learns to do at a young age: how to fix a flat tyre! A flat tyre. So the Dutch generally perform almost no maintenance on their bicycles themselves. Dutch bicycles require almost no maintenance.

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