‘Godwin’s Law’ states tongue-in-cheek that as an online comments thread gets longer, the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 100%. For debates about cycling, a similar trend applies, but about references to the Dutch (although without any of the negative connotations, of course).
The celestial quality of their bike facilities is well-nown. Too well-known, in fact: a trope so familiar it can hijack a cycling debate as surely as Edinburgh’s