Design Classic – Gazelle Omafiets

Gazelle, the leading Dutch bicycle brand, was created by Willem Kölling in 1892. His first omafietsen was a direct copy of an imported English sit-up-and-beg bicycle. Most of the features of the ‘Dutch bike’ can be seen in the women-specific English roadsters of the late 1890s, with skirt-protectors, mudguards, sweeping frames and tall handlebar stems. The Omafiets Classic (or Tour Populair) keeps being procuced and stayed almost the same since 1911.