Hand-built in the Netherlands, the Secret Service is smooth-rolling, solid-handling, and like every WorkCycles bike, comes totally equipped for daily use all year round. The finish is an elegant and super-tough black powder-coat, and the hardware is stainless steel as standard. Each WorkCycles Secret Service frame is hand-brazed in the Netherlands, and can be built to suit your needs and tastes: you can build your bike from a range of options depending upon which gears, brakes, saddle, carriers, and tires you want. Advantages

• Enclosed chaincase for low maintenance
• Shimano hub dynamo and hub gears
• Heavy Duty 28” wheels with double-walled Rigida rims
• Lugged and hand-brazed steel frame
• Forged aluminium crankset
• Bi-pod parking stand
• Chromed bell
• Busch and Müller LED lights
• Brooks leather saddle
• AXA rear wheel ring lock (high security)
• Schwalbe Marathon tyres
• Zinc carbonate primer and damage resistant powder-coat on the frame and mudguards

Configuration options

• Shimano Nexus 3-speed, 8-speed, or Enviolo CVT gearing
• Rear brake: coaster or rollerbrake
• Frame-mounted, removable front rack
• Über bright Busch and Müller LED light upgrade
• Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres
• Schrader valves instead of Dunlop valves

Best all-rounder

All things considered, the Secret Service is probably our best all-round Dutch bike. It has all of the features you’d expect to find on an omafiets, but with all of the extra fat trimmed off. The Secret Service can be fast when it wants to be, but also mellow and comfortable when there’s no rush. Like any WorkCycles bike, the Secret Service can live outdoors quite happily, and it’s incredibly reliable.

The step-through version of the WorkCycles Secret Service is the ride-of-choice of the co-founder of Flying Dutchman Bikes – Kristina Rimkuté. As the owner of a specialist Dutch bicycle company, you can appreciate that her choice to ride this bike on a daily basis is a reflection of its all-round quality and unpretentious style.

Civilised and Practical

In spite of its appearance, the Dutch wouldn’t necessarily consider the WorkCycles Secret Service to be a ladies’ bike. The svelte steel frame tubes and low step-over height make it a tough, agile, and practical bike for anyone. What with the front and rear rack options, it also punches above its weight in terms of cargo capacity.

It’s an ideal choice for people who want something a little lighter and a little tighter; for those love the feel of a steel frame, but who also want to cover greater distances, or ride over more varied terrain.