went for a long cycle with dc yesterday.on dh's bike.
too big for me and men's saddle. outch.
Ouch indeed.
so want to get a dutch bike.
Any reason why you'd like a Dutch bike?
They tend to be very heavy and wafty in the handling department and slow to get up to speed and have a limited range of gears. If you live in a hilly area, they are a complete no-no and are only really cop for billiard flat areas like East Anglia or err... the Netherlands.
The ones sold in the UK tend to be dutch style bikes, especially at the budget end of the market in that they've got all the weight and lack of manoeuvrability of the real thing, but without the key advantages (their incredible durability and load carrying capacity).
If I were to blunt, they are bikes for people who like the idea of cycling in floaty skirts, rather than the reality. A typical dutch style bike will weigh around 18 kg (roughly two and a half stone) so you'll be propelling the weight of that up hills, with only a limited range of gears at your disposal.
are decathlon bikes good? halfords?
Decathlon stuff is usually good value for the price (my road bike is a Decathlon) and Halfords varies from the very good (Boardman) to the utterly crap (Apollo).
I want to spend around 200 ideally
With bikes, you get what you pay for. A bike for that money, will likely have a cheap, heavy steel frame, poor quality components and will cost you far more than the purchase price in repairs and likely put you off cycling due to it being utterly horrible to ride.
Read this review of the Pendleton Summersby which still sells for around£280.