Cycling to school; Culemborg (Netherlands) [149] 

Wow. We rode bikes to school in Norway, too, despite steep hills, but that was short of two kilometres. Can't imagine cycling 15 km twice every school day. Granted, the Dutch don't have too many hills, but still. That's impressive.

I'm 25 and I don't own a car, not because I can't afford it, but because I don't need it. I can get anywhere I like by bike and public transport. The money for a car I rather spend on other stuff.

Notice the lighting on the bicycle path. It is closer to the ground than the lighting for motorized traffic and it is spaced closer together as well. This contributes to the safety and well-being of those cycling during off hours.

I've cycled thro the Netherlands, twice. Its a bike paradise, the young people get a bit of exercise built into their daily routine without knowing it. Its a win win for society. Here in the UK, a kid would most likely get run off the road by cars being driven by parents on the so called "school run".

That is exactly how I remember my childhood in Holland miss it so much

I could watch this all day long. With 1,200 children near schools being injured on UK roads every month, isn't it time we moved towards this? The peace and tranquillity is unrivalled. I want my children to grow up in this environment.

These were my classmates hahahaha, what a weird thing to see after 9 years

This just popped up and it's 10 years old. These kids are lucky to have such a pleasant cycle to school. I cycled to school in the 70s in Scotland. It was first down a long hill, once a man shouted at me, Slow down, I'm trying to get past you! Cycling home up the hill on a wet windy day was less fun. I must have looked a bit strange, long hair, flared trousers with one leg rolled up and a bike with 16inch balloon tyres. Some of my friends had part time jobs delivering shopping or meat from a butcher shop, all on specially made bikes with big baskets.

I've been in Holland for a week. I went to school for a week, it was an amazing experience! We went everyday by bike to school. Sorry for bad eng

I remeber cycling to school not only as matter of transport but mainly as social event. Assessing the weekend or tour day at school. Talking about girls, movies, teachers or whatever. Thinking I about it I'm starting to miss it.

This is my second favorite "BicycleDutch: video. #1 is "From eight to eighty ..." But the happy, fresh faces in this video are a joy to behold.

The kids are so polite saying hello and waving at the camera man. If it had been here in the United States they would have been making rude comments and flipping off the camera.

AlhamdulIllah, there's not a single crazy climate-change denying commenter telling us of the supposed superiority of polluting cars. Everybody here is sensible and supports this calm, relaxed cycling to school. No congestion, no pollution, yes exercise, yes fresh air, no expensive car or fuel.

As someone who lives in the Netherlands I'm pretty sure it isn't that we can't afford cars (we are actually one of the richest countries in the world). A lot of people just don't need them.

This is my hometown! I found this video being used on the not just bikes yt! I regonised it immediatly This is also the highschool I went to!

It would be super to see something like this at the schools in my locality rather than the car madness that holds at present. But neither schools local authority government parents or anyone else will encourage it. Would it not be super way to wean our young of the total madness of the car culture that has taken over this country.

This is a lovely and peaceful film and makes we wish I had moved to the Netherlands when I had the chance.

Imagine being that one loser who goes to school in a car

This is my favorite video of Bicycle Dutch.

great filming, thanks! it was a joy to watch. + those are some proper bikes, they give such a great posture. you wouldn't believe it, but to find bikes like those in the US is like mining for gold, they're rare, and you have to look and pay a whole lot to get them.

What used to be carbid bicycle lighting is now led lighting. But the cycling and the bicycles have remained the same, for at least a hundred years - to school on the bicycle, in any weather.

I didn't see one overweight or obese child / teen... this DEFINITELY isn't America.

Beautiful country

wow just wow looks like a dream.

Hahahah, I actually go to school here! I cycle this way here every day, about 15 km from Geldermalsen. I recognized it from another video that put your source in the comments

This is unimaginable in the US. I hardly ever see 1 kid ride their bike to school, let alone hundreds.

This makes me happy but also sad. Where I live (North Shore, Auckland) people never ride bikes and people always take cars and busses. It's sad because I and a few other people in my school are the only ones who bike and everyone else takes a car or bus. This looks so good. Almost makes me want to move there. I wish more people bikes in the community. It's kind of hard though because we have loads of hills. Everyone looks so happy but kids at my school are always depressed looking. The thing is, no one in my community encourages biking.

So nice road and all kids riding very nicely as well..love that greenary

Dont forget the social part. Conversation tends to flow more easily while exercising

But how is the oil industry supposed to sell oil? But how are gym companies going to sell memberships? But how are construction companies going to sell highways? Not everything is about money, it's about efficiency and quality of life.

I wish biking to school were possible in my country. There is literally no cycling lane here.

Notice how they aren't suffering from childhood obesity, I don't think I saw a single young person with that challenge there.

The Dutch have manners, class and are charming people.The women are beautiful.

I'd love to be able to ride a bike to school but my school is 1/2 away driving so I can't. These kids have such a beautiful route to travel by too! Jealous ;)

As an american who rode his bike to school, I still feel like I have missed out :(

1:36 “Drie van de vijf doen VWO. Eigenlijk vier van de vijf, want ik doe ook VWO.” “Nerd!!!” “Three out of five attend VWO.” (short for preparing scientific education. A form of secondary education which prepares students to attend university in the future. It is the highest level of high school you can attend. He meant three children out of that group of five children, because only 18% of students attend VWO, so that’s a smart squad) “Actually four out of five, because I attend VWO as well.” “Nerd!!!” (~Probably that one child who didn’t attend VWO, hahah)

Not having a car is not the same as not being able to afford a car. I have lived in the Netherlands and didn't own a car when I was 30, simply because I didn't need one. Even someone living on social welfare in that country easily has enough money to own a car if he/she wants to.

We had an eight kilometre bike to school every day until I transferred after three years, there was no real bus connection so when it snowed a lot our parents drove us and sometimes took our friend too 😊

Fun fact: images of this video were used in the Avondshow met Lubach (conditie van kinderen around 06: 40)

@wanttoread5 Not many 16, 18 year olds in the US can afford cars either; mostly it's their parents buying them one, which is why at least half of the 17-18 year olds in my high school drove to school everyday. 21 year olds, maybe, although they probably have loads of loans from college alone. Such is the culture in this country. I don't know about anyone else, but I personally feel that 16 (or 14 in some states) is a little young to be operating machinery such as a car. 18 would be better.

So nice to see people riding in normal clothing at a normal speed...just using bicycles for transportation and not thinking they are racing in the Tour de France.

I drove to the Netherlands and got on my bike. I cycled on the same straight road for over 10 km before it finally split into 4 new straight roads. All I saw was potatoe fields. No houses, just potatoes

It must give a sense of independence to kids that they don't have where I live. Because they are nearly all dropped to school in cars.

another great video mark,thanks for posting

Most school kids cycling there are from neighbouring towns in a bout a 12 km radius

As soon as possible I will be here

They are lucky

i want to live over there

closer to school larger they become like the closer a river gets to the mouth the wider and deeper it get because it has more tributaries n shit :D

How is that child abuse? So it isnt child abuse feeding kids McFat burgers and taking them to school in your SUV and putting all that crap in the air from all the extra cars, and then giving them no exercise.

Watch as herds of spry Students move together on their twice-daily migration to and from the green pastures of education...

Fabulous film Mark! :)

How many overweight kids did you spot... zero.

Luckily countries like Holland and Denmark are actually very wealthy, especially relative to their population size. Otherwise, every politician from cycling-unfriendly countries would using that as an excuse and saying the same things they said about why the Chinese used bikes (too poor, no choice, etc.) so much in the latter half of the 20th century.

Markenlei, check eens een keer de Burgemeester Stulemeijerlaan in Bergen Op Zoom, tussen 8 en 8:30 's ochtends altijd een enorme fietschaos :) (ruim 2000 leerlingen van mijn school komen altijd op de fiets + nog een hoop scholieren die nog verder moeten fietsen + ander woon-werk-fietsverkeer) Kom ik ook eens in een van je filmpjes ;) Het zal waarschijnlijk wel te ver weg voor je zijn (al heb ik geen flauw idee waar je woont, ik denk Utrecht e.o. Das toch ruim 100 km verderop) Mooie video weer

@bicycledutch You should make this video again today, with all the electric bikes of today...

Well alote of ppl travel 30 min to a hour by bike to get the school or there work. So the time it takes or how far away it istn shouldnt be a excuse

You don't need Soccer Moms in the Netherlands. Teenagers should not need a parent to go to s friend, sports or club.

very healty

Not Just Bikes sent me here.

This looks almost like the peloton of a road bike race😅💪🏼

Heel mooi,,, BEDANKT

amazing Dutchland with bicycle lines,..

Yay Mark!!! Beautiful :)

I still cycle on the exact road every day to go to school, have been for the last 7 years. Haha

SO MUUUUCHHH GREEEN

Hallo hoe gaat het? Means in the english: Hello how are you?

Yep their kids are more fitter than ours

Yes but your from the US, and the attitude you have shows it.

They probably have great public transportation.. its such a small country anyways

Um País praticamente plano é fácil todo mundo andar de bicicleta. Quero ver isso aqui no Bairro de Perdizes e outros.

Look at all those hooligans!

For anyone's knowledge: Cyclists are not supposed to ride with three or more next to each other.

Thats cool riding bikes to school

You would never see so many bare heads in Australia.

ill have to ride a electic bike on them roads .pedaling will wear me out quick .

Attention, les images qui suivent sont insoutenables. Elles risquent de choquer profondément plus d’un parent amenant ses enfants à l’école en voiture. Aux Pays-Bas, l’immense majorité des enfants se rend à l’école en utilisant un mode de déplacement particulièrement étrange qu’on appelle « vélo ». En France, la plupart des enfants se rend à l’école ou au collège avec un mode de déplacement naturellement motorisé, comme un car, un bus ou très souvent une voiture. Pour faire en moyenne moins de 5 kilomètres, la voiture est le mode de déplacement privilégié des parents pour emmener leurs enfants à l’école, car il est bien connu que le grand nombre de voitures sur les routes est dangereux pour les enfants. Comme il y a trop de voitures sur les routes et dans les rues, les parents français, en bons cartésiens, choisissent logiquement la voiture pour aller à l’école. Leurs enfants peuvent ainsi développer tranquillement leur obésité tout en respirant à pleins poumons l’air pollué de l’habitacle confiné des voitures. Aux Pays-Bas, les parents sont apparemment inconscients ; ils n’hésitent pas à envoyer leurs enfants à l’école ou au collège à vélo! C’est affreux! Ces pauvres enfants laissés à l’abandon sur les routes font de l’exercice physique tout en développant leur autonomie et en respirant le grand air. Ces images scandaleuses montrent de façon crue toute l’horreur des pratiques hollandaises. On y voit une multitude d’enfants aller à l’école à vélo et arriver à bon port sans aucun problème. Et le pire, c’est qu’ils ne portent même pas le casque! Les Hollandais sont des criminels! Source: bicycledutch.wordpress.com/

Thats my school Lek en Linge. The first building was the ibb

the thing is if america made this mandatory all the kids would have cardiac arrests

love it.

As a cyclist, I noticed many of these kids peddling with the middle of their foot. That's a sure sign of a novice which surprised me greatly

- But how do schoolchildren get to school during snowfall, blizzard or just rainy, frosty days with sub-zero temperatures - aren't there enough such days a year?!

Man I wish they did this in usa

nice to see proper bikes instead of those hideous mountain bikes kids ride in the uk

just an average school!

Notice there are no fat kids.

Every country should have bicycle lanes , way to many cars on the roads not healthy emissions ect

Very nice

For any Trump supporters out there.. Please notice the wind turbines...without piles of dead birds, as Trump claims. But, what a civilised way for kids to start the day...independently, without “mummy in her 4 x 4”. Great....

Free living!!!! Go Dutch!!

I can not think or a rational explanation why someone would dislike this vedeo. May they are just trolling youtube for laughs. Automobiles make people lazy and fat . Automobiles stink especially desil engines . Motorcycles are loud and dangerous . Running is hard on the knees and joints and walking takes too long . The only think more fun than bicycles is sex and tormenting prudish people with extremely loud Jimi Hendrix music .

Igualito que acá en México!

Lol I actually went to school at the school shown at the end

Trying to get rid of my car.........biking daily

My school is so Close to my Apartment that i can WALK to it.

No obesity problem !

thats very cute

Het plezier in fietsen wordt de laatste tijd aardig verpest door te brede stille scooters, fatbikes en bejaarden die niet meer met hun auto in het snelverkeer meekunnen en, denkende dat ze nog vitaal en jong zijn ,op de voor hun te snelle e-bike overstappen.🤬

God damn it i was drinking coffee. xD

Incredibile: niente tamarri in scooter, niente genitori con le auto in doppia fila davanti alla scuola, niente bus o tram strapieni.