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I have not lived in my Home country for 22 years and the thing I miss the most is the Dutch biking culture. Notting better then a summers day and roll around in the beautiful city's of Nederlands.
@@MrSafa61 Those who do not have a build-in light usually use a clip-on light. easy and cheap. Rain never stops us. We can handle the wind (just keep pedaling in a lower gear). In 50 years time I have had only 2 interruptions with police, both times I got away with just a warning. We also have a lot of free time, decent salaries and decent social security, so ... We are relaxed.
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There is an elegance in the Dutch manner of riding a bicycle. The upright posture is more graceful and unhurried. It seems easy and comes naturally, is almost nonchalant, unlike being hunched and toiling over dropped handlebars.
They pretty much cycle more than they walk, even the elderly feel at ease. While in many other countries even as a way of transport most of the time you get anxiety from cars/trucks/buses/dork pedestrians/bad roads/etc, those people just ride like it's the normal way, without a care in the world. Im starting on an MTB, the hands forward position can be annoying for my palms, since you tend to put some of your weight on the handlebars meanwhile on the typical urban bike like the dutch ones you just use the handle bar for what it is, control.
The upright posture comes from the bike geometry. Their city bikes have relaxed seating positions with a short reach, instead of those aggressive riding positions of race bikes.
Love this. I wish Americans in cities chose to ride bikes more often. I think we're worried about being uncomfortable, or taking a longer time to get where we need to go. I noticed that just about every person that passed by looked content with riding!
Amber W A bike gets you from point A to B faster in a Dutch city. And during the summer its nicer then in a car...its like your own personal convertible...wind in your hair...cycling slowly through the fields..its so peaceful and refreshing. Instead of sitting in a sweaty car getting road rage stuck in traffic.
It is a city planning thing. No Dutch person would cycle in an American city, it is dangerous, stressful, unpleasant, and everyone is hostile to you for daring to not be in a car.
Miami is the new Kabul Well, maybe cycling in Kabul is safer since life is still half-sacred. I'm sure they don't come and attack if you ride a bike in traffic. I hear the Taliban made cycling very safe but maybe I'm wrong. Those things you never know for sure. It's like people who say Miami is the new Copenhagen. They don't have a clue but it sounds like good propaganda. No, that's not the way you win a war. This is a war zone.
Not that hard, at least if you grew up on two wheels, but you wouldn't want to do that in heavy traffic as you need your hands on the steering for quick breaking and maneouvring. I used to do that in my home town towards the local city, a long straight stretch of bike path between settlements with much lower traffic than the big cities. It makes biking more relaxed as you can kinda sit back and enjoy the view. Very uncommon for me to do that now when i live in Groningen though as it's usually more hectic
@@frisianmouve I used to ride an (almost exclusive) bike path for 10 km to school, mostly handsfree. Also in Groningen province. Hated it in winters, but in hindsight I love it all.
We are in fact a very mobile nation. All means of transportation are well develloped, from walking, or if you can't walk, wheelchairs, scootmobile. Public transportation; bus, trams, subway/underground/ metro as we call it, trains, and aeroplanes that can cross a highway in an overpath, near Schiphol-airport, cars, but most of all; bikes..and a lot of bikes. I guess there must be millions and millions of bikes in our country. The highest bike-density per square km=square3/4 mile in the world!! I like how amazed foreigners react to our bike-culture. For me that's normal every day. Oh yes, people on a bike and pedestrians etc are protected by law while in traffic. If I would have been involved, while driving my car, and for some unfortunate reason I crash into someone on a bike or a pedestrian, than I am the guilty one. Seriously, then I am in big trouble, big time. Bikers and pedestrians are looked up-on as weaker participants in traffic, I in my car am the stronger one, that's why they are protected, and rightly so. As a foreigner driving a car in any city in the Netherlands can be a challenge, luckily we are well educated drivers, well aware of our responsability to our bikers and pedestrians.
Grip is also something...Specialy when you are in a peloton, and that is where you are in the Netherlands all the time. Low air more grip, pumped up fall. Falling takes more time and effort then low pressured tires. In between is the best.
mensen let alstublieft op uw bandenspanning ,als u zo doorfietst heeft u kans dat u binnenkort een lekke band krijgt en ook de banden gaan korter mee denk daaraan.
In English: People please watch the pressure of your tyres, when you continue to cycle that way (with a low pressure) you have a chance of a flat tyre in a short while, and also the tyres have a shorter life, think about that.
Nice to see real bikes were you sit properly and don't ride along with your nose almost touching the front tyre, head bent back trying to see where your going.
I like how the girl rides on the front rack at 32 seconds. Would adding a stout front rack to my steel city/commute bike work or is this a specialized bike that is designed from the start to carry a very heavy front load/person? It also looks like a similar rack at 1:40 seconds.
there are bikes where these racks are build in, those are strong usually but not meant to sit on. But you can also buy them and install them yourself, people sit on those too but they are less strong and will break faster. These racks are very popular right now with teenage girls mostly. But they are not often used to transport people, it is not practical and I would say more dangerous than sitting on the back. If you want to anyway i would definitely advice to buy a bike with one installed in the frame but please note they are not made to transport people.
+Donald Lee These front bike racks were used in the old days on transport bikes. Like the one that the baker or the butcher boy used to make home deliveries. It is only during the last 3 to 5 years that these racks have become very popular again and are trendy among school children and more and more grown ups like myself. The front bike rack is sometimes welded to the frame on transport bikes but mostly added as an after market item. Not only the front rack but also the transport bike (0:43) is quite a trendy item at the moment (2016). The transport bike is designed to carry heavier loads and is made either from steel bars or from thicker than usual aluminium bar stock. A standard aluminium bike (thinner bar stock) will suffer from carrying heavier loads and may break (literally)! The front bike racks often times have a plastic crate or basket fixed to them to carry stuff around in. Strangely enough school back packs are still carried on the back and not put in the crate. The after market front bike racks are quite sturdy and made out of steel. The standard racks on the back of modern bikes used to be made out of steel but are - like the bike itself - nowadays usually made out of thin aluminium bar stock. Hence having someone riding on the back rack of your modern bike is going to ruin your bike rack sooner or later and is also not beneficial to the health of your bike as a whole (example at 0:56). In the Netherlands you may often see a mom with two children on her bike. The oldest one on the back and the younger one in the front (in a seat hanging from the handle bar). The bike used is often an aluminium "mother bike" (2:48) specially designed to carry heavier loads. An alternative for the front seat hanging from the handle bar can be seen at 0:50 and 1:25 where you see a bike with a small extra saddle attached to one of the bike bars in front of the rider (feet rests needed!). Loads like these can otherwise only be transported on (old fashioned) steel bikes. Your modern aluminium bike (with thin bar material) will end up on the scrap heap after only a couple of years in this scenario. Carrying a person or some other heavy load on the front bike rack can be dangerous because in most cases the rack is attached to the front fork of the bike making steering a lot heavier. On some transportbikes the front rack is attached to the frame so as to not interfere with the steering. Feet can and do end up between the spokes of the wheels. With kids this may result in broken bones. When carrying children (upto 8 years old) on the back of a bike it is compulsory in the Netherlands to have a decent seat with back - and feet support. Feet support will prevent dangling feet from ending up between the spokes. So giving someone a ride on the front bike rack is not the safest way of transport. Pfff that is a lot more than I intended to write :)
Certainly! In many office cafeteria and I believe in the army too we still have 'blauwe donderdag', blue thursday, when they serve indonesian food. Indonesia has made a lasting impact on our cooking so we are reminded often about what once was. Also we have many ethnic Indonesian people here.
Selamat siang. apa kabar? :) A big part of Dutch society has Indonesian roots. We call them Indo's. People with one or more Indonesian ancestors. I'm one of them;). And Inonesian food takes main place in our food culture. We cook Indonesian at home and we have many Indonesian Toko's around the country were you csn buy Nasi Goreng, Rendang, Saté, Lemper, risolles and all the nice Indonesian dishes. So yes, we have al lot with Indonesia.
Probably tourist conidering the brand new rental bikes. They behave strange in two ways: they wear helmets and they walk with their bike when they could have biked.
You're talking about the Netherlands, where helmet use is almost non-existent, bike use is very high, and yet it has the lowest cycling death and injury rate in the world. If helmets really were effective, the USA would be the safest place to cycle, right? the Dutch don't need bike helmets because cycling is not an intrinsically dangerous activity - it's the road environment that is dangerous, and the Dutch have created a safe cycling environment. The majority of head injuries are sustained by car occupants. Perhaps it is motor vehicle drivers and their passengers who should be wearing helmets? YAAAY FOR STATISTICS AND DOWNRIGHT FACTS :D
@OneManArmy people that wear helmets have more accidents than people that don't wear a helmet. Cars give people wearing a helmet less space and people with a helmet take more risk on there bike. This makes that they are way more victims of accidents. The bike helmet is designed for as you fall and not against cars. Against cars you need a motorcycle helmet.
+i need some tits The icing on the cake is seen at 4:42, especially considering the extra weight the man has to carry. Suspension at the saddle and/or wheels are the answer to have a comfortable ride.
It's probably because there was a rapid weather change + laziness of not feeling like checking your tires. I rarely check my tires myself (only re-enflate them when I start to feel that the wheel itself hits the road sometimes :P)
Bicycle helmets, bicycle helmets, bicycle helmets... Personally I consider bicycle helmets detrimental to health and cycling. I can explain that at length but I won't do that here. Here I want to explain that British tourists have to wear a bicycle helmet when cycling in The Netherlands otherwise their travel Insurance will not cover any bicycle accident costs. See: www.gocompare.com/travel-insurance/guide/cycling-holidays/ And I quote from this source: "If you’re involved in an accident and aren’t wearing a helmet at the time, you won’t be able to claim." In other words, British tourist have no choice but to wear a bicycle helmet. Oddly enough, when the same UK citizen is cycling at home, that is not being a tourist, than you don't have to wear a helmet. I.e. wearing a helmet is only required by British travel insurances.
@@brozius That is another question. As to British holiday insurance ...it is what it is. It is what most British insurance agencies demand from their bicycling vacationing citizens.
Bicycle helmets, bicycle helmets, bicycle helmets... Personally I consider bicycle helmets detrimental to health and cycling. I can explain that at length but I won't do that here. Here I want to explain that British tourists have to wear a bicycle helmet when cycling in The Netherlands otherwise their travel Insurance will not cover any bicycle accident costs. See: www.gocompare.com/travel-insurance/guide/cycling-holidays/ And I quote from this source: "If you’re involved in an accident and aren’t wearing a helmet at the time, you won’t be able to claim." In other words, British tourist have no choice but to wear a bicycle helmet. Oddly enough, when the same UK citizen is cycling at home, that is not being a tourist, than you don't have to wear a helmet. I.e. wearing a helmet is only required by British travel insurances.
You have got more chance to slip in the shower/bathtub and hit your head, do you wear a helmet in there? It's very safe to cycle in the Netherlands, if it would be dangerous there would have been a lot of people injured in the Netherlands.
@@Taerial I totally agree it is nonsense. Or more precise, absurd. But it is what it is. It is what most insurance agencies demand from their bicycling vacationing citizens.
You're talking about the Netherlands, where helmet use is almost non-existent, bike use is very high, and yet it has the lowest cycling death and injury rate in the world. If helmets really were effective, the USA would be the safest place to cycle, right? the Dutch don't need bike helmets because cycling is not an intrinsically dangerous activity - it's the road environment that is dangerous, and the Dutch have created a safe cycling environment. The majority of head injuries are sustained by car occupants. Perhaps it is motor vehicle drivers and their passengers who should be wearing helmets? YAAAY FOR STATISTICS AND DOWNRIGHT FACTS :D
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