At some point while in the Netherlands your bicycle is going to break.  I don’t mean to be the bearer of bad news, but it just happens.  Like the day that I had a job interview and ran over a piece of glass on Raadhuisstraat only to return to a completely flat tire.  In the pouring rain.  With no bicycle shops open because it was a Monday…so I walked home.  These are just the kinds of things that can happen unexpectedly, and it’s terribly helpful if you can walk into a bicycle shop and explain what your bicycle-related problem is.  Although, I must admit, generally pointing and grunting works too because those guys have changed a million flat tires.

So, without further ado, your bicycle-related Dutch vocabulary list.