I want to move to The Netherlands from Sweden, but I haven't chosen which city/town yet. I'm looking for jobs through LinkedIn, and each time a job is in a city I don't know, I come to your channel to see what it looks like from a biker's perspective. It's really helpful, thanks for doing this! Hilversum looks amazing, so green and calming.
I like the drive towards the tiny police station at 0:28. It was designed in 1919 by Willem Marinus Dudok, the famous architect and urban designer of lots of buildings in Hilversum. Its ground plan is beautifully drafted: The little left "shed" hosted a fire brigade hose wagon. In its extension into the building there are a toilet and two police cells. Behind the parabolic door, there's a little hall with bicycle parking spot. The windows mark the waiting room. And the right extension had a "rijwielbrancard", bicycle stretcher, possibly the same model as in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jUUx7hm88e0.htmlm55s
Did you came for the Dudok architecture ? Or just as a 'base camp' for trips in the Netherlands ? (I live here, but would never think of using it as a vacation destination!)
Excellent video as usual. It's interesting how you sometimes overtake the same people more than once. For example 1:14 and 2:53. All a part of shooting and editing videos.
As far as I'm aware, that's fairly standard in the Netherlands...and at least five roads in Ipswich town centre (UK) are one-way for cars, but have a contra-flow cycle lane. Mind you, you really have to be aware of pedestrians who step into the road without looking!
It's like that almost everywhere, I can't think of a place where cycling is only one way, even if the motor trafic is one way. This is mostly so because it doesn't necessarily need that much more space
In the city where i live, gent in belgium, 90%-100% of narrow city center streets are one way for cars and 2 way for bikes. It's the standard here, not bold at all. As stated in other comments it is standard in a lot of cities in the Netherlands, and belgium too, and I think it is standard in a lot of european cities... It is surprising to me that this is even interesting to you. This is so normal to us here... :D
Ofcourse not, that would be extremely annoying. This noise has a pretty constant frequency which suggests that something was hitting the spokes of one of the wheels. At 2/3 the noise disappears for a while and then comes back less loud.
It sounds like the chain grinding on the chaincase. At 3:24 the noise disappears because of just rolling out, not pedalling, in order to slow down a bit before turning right.
1:17 to 1:27 is significant. All pedestrians walking on the sidewalk part of the pavement because they account for bicycle traffic without thinking about it, and the woman at 1:24 looking over her shoulder to see if she can safely walk on the bike path to pass the pedestrians coming in the opposite direction. Absolutely seemless
