Justin Lee Miller amen there, also. Much CHEAPER THAN A CAR😋 I also don't own a car in case of bad weatehr/cold. I take public transportation. (employer pays 90% of bus card) 😊 I save nearly 1,200 a month by switching to not owning a car😂

Do you live in a flat area or maybe you use your bike only around your city? Come to Spain to deal with our hills even into cities, you will swear for an engine or at least an assisted e-bike. Only electric scooters have a future over here and not until you could find recharging points everywhere. For example I used to have my past jobs at around 15-20 kilometers which was rather hard bicycling considering the hills but now my job is 42 kilometers away (84 daily) and in order to get there I have not one but three mountain passes.

newhuskytwenty hey. It's okay. I live in such an area. In Stuttgart. E-Bike is fine. I love my bike(s).

You live in the US and you don’t own a car? I am shocked. Greetings to you all kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pt-mn92Vq7irZH0.html

Justin Lee Miller for us Dutch it's just easier not more fun

Denaamisdaan You would have likely had to take the car keys from her much sooner. So, the bike allowed her to be more independent for that time.

And they had to fight tooth and nail for it because, like in North America, they had people whining every step of the way. Good thing nobody listened to the naysayers. It's going to be a long road, but hopefully NA ends up like this in the end too.

yeah you can't virtually see any obese on the road

Cars run on gas, bikes run on fat! Someone forgot to tell my ass though...

I did the same in high school. Bike was faster than the bus. I really miss eating everything and my muscular legs.

AnataWaDareDesuKa those numbers don't add up..

now a days I do 30km per day to school :D 30x5=150x40=6000km per year... and that for 4 years now so 6000x4= 24000km and i love it.

We hire dutch bikes on our greek summer holiday in zakynthos, They are soo much fun. . De stresser for sure 😀

Part of the reason of lack of uptake in the UK is exactly your last point, the perception that is only for the enthusiast or well equipped.

An expensive hobby for enthusiasts, that has become of it in many countries. Not an economical (and healthy) form of every day transportation for short distances, as what it should be. The same happened before to motorcycles.

Why would you need special riding gear on a bicycle?

Well they are in several countries in the process of manipulating people to believe that only this ensures their survival.

You can buy better cyclings here but we only buy whats needed

"some disadvantages here with vast distances between cities" Well, just start with the daily groceries shopping ! Because I guess that your supermarket isn't in another city ? And going shopping is (after going to school and work) what "we" (the Dutch) mostly use our bikes for. With daily groceries I mean just milk bread fruit and vegetables, stuff you want daily fresh. It also helps that we have small packaging for most products. I have been to Canada in the early 90's and I was 'shocked' about the size of product packaging ! 1 gallon was the smallest can of milk I could find...... that's enough for a month..... Everything was mega sized and if that's still going on today, yes, then shopping by bike can be a real challenge !!

I don't know where you were buying your products here in Canada but we always have had small containers. People here buy in bulk because the merchants have made the price for small items really expensive. Therefore the more you buy the cheaper it is. So there is more bulk items around. As far of riding a bicycle to the store for an item rather than a car is a mind set that is very slow to change here. There seems to be a general mentality to have to get everything done immediately so the bicycle is seen as a inconvenience.

It was one of those mega store concepts, I don't know the exact name anymore. In the 90's my parents and I hired a huge camper and made an ultimate/epic tour around the Rocky Mountains. Starting at our Canadian family home in Richmond Vancouver I remember we went to (almost) all places between Seattle to Calgary. Nairn falls, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper National Park, Harrison Hot spring resort , Othello tunnels, Golden, Kamloops lake, Victoria, Butchart Gardens, Whistler, Edmonton, Vancouver Island. Just to name a few places in our 30 (30 !!!) days trip. We did all the tourist stuff, and shot more than 100 rolls of slides and photo's !! (this was way before digital photo) It was the most beautiful vacation ever ! (and the absolute most expensive) PS, what I remember the most was this, after landing in United States Seattle the first thing we heard on the airport was, "How much money do you have and when are you going back?"..... also when we got slightly lost (no GPS in the 90's) nobody would tell the way unless we paid them..... But at the Canadian border the first thing we heard was "Welcome to Canada, we hope you will have a fantastic holiday and here's a free local road map" ......what a difference !

ty m dutch

Steve, with the poorly laid out cities. Come and look at some of the old cities in the Netherlands, they are a nightmare. But not for cyclists. They changed many inner cities to cycle and pedestrian only.

A car gives you road rage. A bike when the infrastructure is done right relaxes you.

@@evl457 Yes it does help. Not moving and stuffing your face is bad we know that, thank you. :-))

Also, fat people are too lazy to ride a bicycle.

but no deaths

in 2017 there were more deaths in cycling accidents that in cars. not sure how many were head injury related. Edit: Here is the article by Bicycle Dutch, bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/more-cycling-fatalities-than-deaths-in-cars/

No dumbass speed cyclists...

@@Chorizosabroso it was the first time ever though, and probably counting electric bikes, which are more dangerous as people are less adjusted to them. And while 6 yo ride their bikes, you need to be 18 for a car... But I think the main factor was that the number of car deaths went down, so that is a good thing.

There only cruising around not doing dumb stuff. I think its okay as long as there actually careful witch they are probably beyond that since they've been doing it for so long

What's so special about it?

Same. Normal people riding normally with their luggage/bags etc doing their thing, travelling. In the UK there's always sports cyclists in full lycra and helmets and goggles with some mountain type bicycle.

Not aero

Irrelevance 😂 hahaha

@@Pleezath it's because they prefer cycling rather than riding a motorcycle or a car unlike other countries. Some countries would rather get a loan for a car or a motorcycle because they don't like cycling and it's easier to be ridden.

O my, I never thought of that. I have two in the shed, for all I know they're mating. I'm moving to Iceland!

@@mourlyvold7655 .They don’t have bikes in Iceland?

@@OP-1000 aaargh! We're doomed!

I was going to say "I'd like to see a bike hold a gun" but then I started wondering how you'd shoot a bike

😂😂

How long does it take you to bike?

@@Prettype4rls to school it takes me around 35/45 minutes at a normal speed of like 17km/h and when i bike rlly hard at like 25km/h it takes me 25/30/35 min depending on the like air forces (i forgot whats it called)

Wie gaat er nou vrijwillig naar België...

@@Saartje05 nou ja.

The Germans did that in WWII.

A happy and safe, healthy and cycling New Year to you!

Well the point of these videos is advocating more people to use bicycles instead of cars. Walking is an even better option of course. But I find it more practical and faster to carry groceries in my bike's basket.

I do about half of my shopping on foot, but when I go to the market which for food is way better & cheaper I go by bike. When I have to carry heavier things I certainly prefer the bike, for example soil.

Medium Rick Light years are a measurement of distance, specifically, the distance light travels in vacuum in a year.

The bicycles need to be upgraded to be able to handle all your obese people

In the USA there are 323 million people and we have 393 million guns...So theres that.

It's not a good thing to have 393 million guns. Just see what that causes; -school shooting at least every weak -mass shootings yearly -police shootings every day -robbery with guns every day

We'll catch up with them in about 12 parsecs.

Rik L Fewer cars = less chance of being injured.

@@timdowney6721 Nothing to do with fewer cars. Almost every grown up who drives a bike also drives a car. Cars all over the place here but roads and bicycle are most often seperated. Infra structure is much better here.

@@Linda-hs1lk Exactly.

@@timdowney6721 better infrastructure More understanding from car drivers. Riding different bike (not MTB, but normal bikes in which you can sit straight,)

Well, you're doing better than this 34 year old Dutchie! How do you find road safety there?

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@@TiaMat99 Thank you for your enquiry. I do apologise for the delay in answering it: I cannot say that road safety for cyclists in UK reaches anything like Dutch standards.. but then, nowhere else does... not even Denmark. To keep myself safe here, I try to stay off shared routes with motor traffic. Whilst the number of exclusive cycling routes is increasing, slowly,, all of them just STOP at junctions with the motor road network... and relatively few of them make useful connections to where we need to go. This makes the longest of them leisure rides only. My least favourite cycling infrastructure in UK is the narrow painted-line "cycle lane" at the edge of a normal road. It encourages cars to pass closer than NO "lane" at all! Note: I have cycled around the villages to the north of Amsterdam, having taken a ferry across from Central Station. It was a guided cycle tour and the high spot of my whole Rhine cruise holiday.

Zozo petje af hoor

I biked 25 miles (~40km) per day for a similar period as an American. When I worked it became more days per year. It was the safest place to bike I've ever lived in the US (I got hit 5 times in 4 years), and the shortest commute by bike I've ever had available by bike in the US, ESPECIALLY by ratio to driving distance. It was about 1.3 times the driving distance. Everywhere else I have lived required biking at LEAST 2 times as far as the drive was, and the last place I lived required biking 6 to 8 times as far (depending on whether you were willing to illegally do a short stretch on the highway/motorway). Currently before COVID-19 hit I was biking to work 3 time per week, because that's all my worn-out knees could manage between it being a much hillier commute and the fact that my commute is now 53km per day by bike. There is a war on cycling here - please don't be too stuck up when some cycling refugees move there. I really hope I can save up for it someday...

Also I also cycled everywhere for friends/shopping - although for me a weekend shopping trip was about 20km extra, so I NEVER did it as a separate trip from work. If I forgot to pick up an ingredient I just had a shitty meal. My bike was about equally heavy to yours. So don't brag too much - almost all American cycle commuters probably do more than that. On the flipside, it's nothing to brag about for either of us. Beyond a certain point it's just suffering and "bragging" about how awful your life is... Build your cycling life better. You have a lot more ability than us to do so

@@hngldr How does that compete? 'safest place to bike' and 'got hit 5 times in 4 years'? I've been in 1 bike accident in 43 years. How can you call 5 hits in 4 years safe?

@@ffortissimo I'm saying it's NOT safe, and that I'm jealous of how little he has to bike and how safe and nice of a place he has to bike in, and that if Americans had such nice and safe places to bike, we would bike just as much

I'm an American who is forced to choose between ride a bike to work or be unemployed. People like me who cannot drive due to handicaps but are otherwise still capable of locomotion and working a job are effectively discriminated against in car-dependent locations. The lack of any safe alternatives for those who are unable to drive (but otherwise would drive if they could) is like a building not having any ramps for wheelchairs.

Nederland is het beste fietsland ter wereld!

In Slovakia, Trnava is developing it's cycling infrastructure, today we have approx. 20-30 km of separated cycle paths (there are plans for 100 more kms and also plans to connect Bratislava-Trnava and surrounding villages with a bike highway) and the first automated parking tower in Slovakia. Thanks Netherlands for inspiration :)

I wish i could too

That's because the bikes are so old fashioned, there are practically no gears and they all cycle slowly...

@@TheChrisEMartin all bikes have at least 3 gears, most have 7-8 and many have up to 21. old skool bikes without gears are very very rare. Also these days 42% of sold bikes are electric (combination of human force and electric motor)

The Dutch are on average the tallest people on earth. The Dutch don't wear helmets. Conclusion: Wearing helmets stunts your growth.

@@TheChrisEMartin the bikes a fine. They are just not the mountain/sport bikes you know. This "old fashioned" bike is not a head first kind of bike when you hit the brakes like a mountain bike. because we sit straight. Also it looks less ridiculous and ride better. And we rode a lot faster then 12.9. the number is so low because so many old people ride the normal bicycle.

@@TheChrisEMartin They are not old fashioned, they are built to be slow and comfortable.

@@Beun007 I think you really have a problem with the Netherlands, if you don't like it here, then get your ass out, we don't like people that are this negative.

Beun007 God heb je een klein pikkie of zo

@@Brozius2512 I think he is trying to put off people into move to the Netherlands.

It is. Safer traffic, safer schools and all the culture and history of Europe within a day or two of driving(or a 3hr flight).

The Netherlands is AWESOME, safe to ride your bike aswell.

Depends on how drunk you are to find your bike again. But on a more serious note; it's like second nature to find your bike again. Also nowadays, I just take a picture if I park at a train station for a two weeks trip or so.

I often memorize where I put my bike by finding an easily recognizable spot to put it close to, though I will admit to almost losing my bike more than once because I didn't remember where I'd parked it

In the bigger facilities (like Utrecht Centraal) there are numbered rows and each bicycle rack also has it's own number. So you can either memorize it or make a picture

Do you forget where you parked your car? No? It's no different for a bike.

Indian? If so, most Indians still talk face to face msot of the time (it may only feel so because you are surrounded by those people). Human relations too are strong and independence is more about being rid of poverty I guess in India. But I do get your point. All of these are diminishing indeed sadly.

Well I'm certain this comment can not be taken out of context is any way!

www.parool.nl/nieuws/met-hun-fietsen-tonen-hogeropgeleiden-hoe-goed-ze-het-hebben~baab4da0/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.nl%2F

Well, he is Dutch. So am I. Frankly I don't care if anybody is referring to "Holland" when they actually mean "The Netherlands". As in: www.holland.com/be_nl/toerisme.htm kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldGHmsVlsLHSp30.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9GgoKRj2su7Zok.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbSWobaYvtexZIE.html

Stroopwafels are a good reason too.

@@mourlyvold7655 If you like them!

@@mariadebake5483 Blasphemy! 😉

@@mourlyvold7655 🤗🤗

True. But we have very strong winds too

I live now in the Netherlands and we we're taken ,in the 50''s,to school with betjaks.Cool!

@@erikloupias7642 very nice experience.

Sounds like an omafiets, I prefer lighter more maneouvrable bikes, but an omafiets is really durable

Yep, omafiets (grandma bike).

Ik vind het echt veel meer milieubewuster. En helemaal niet voor minder bedeelde mensen 🤣 Het is juist leuk dat het voor iedereen is. Ongeacht je achtergrond of huidskleur 😁👍🏻👍👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

@@nathalieverheij2308 Mijn vertrouwen in de jeugd is geheel hersteld! The future is bright!

Goed bezig, meiden!

Imagine a million bikes at the station and your train just about to depart :P

@@nicjansen230 Well then you should have cycled faster to get on the station earlier to get a parkingspot, and then RUN!

@@nicjansen230 Then you left your home too late.

@@Saartje05 Yes, indeed, great observation... now what?

@@nicjansen230 Take the car . . . . . . . .

It sounds about right to me. I ride a dutch bike and rarely top 15kph. You are confusing the more sporty type of riders we have here to those who ride to get places, where speed is not a top concern.

Average speed for an e-bike is a bit higher. More around 17km/h but up to 25km/h

Wouter post I think you are right. For a normal bike the average speed is at least 15kmh. And when you ride an e-bike it is definitely more I would say about 20kmh at least.

Elderly people on e-bikes don't ride that fast on their Leisure rides, they probably bring the avg speed down. Since they're probably the majorty of e-bike owners. But I agree, when i'm riding to work i do 20-25 km

Funny, I have an Ebike, since a year and a half, yea my average is clocked at 16.6 kph. However, that is over the life of the bike swiched on. Basically I have range of 180km per charge. Only use it on longer trips with motor switched on. Trips to the shops, and trips shorter than 15km my legs do the work, not the motor. Hence still pedal at a decent clip but since an accident I need to make sure to get where I wanted to go AND COME BACK. Thus Ebike...

Look at the video you see the need for guns? :)

And a lot killings .

@@paulm1704 So you didn't get it . . . . . right? :-))

You could have panniers for those. 😎

bikes don't kill people...etc..

In Ireland I reach over 70km/h on my route every day

I have exactly same distance to school and take exactly the same time. Although for the way back it’s less because there’s a big downhill.

A series of lessons for cornering on a bike, brought to you by a Dutchy: Lesson number one: don't use the front brake whenever you steer more than 5°! That will get you killed!!! Lesson number two: lean into the corner a bit Lesson number three: the pedal on the inside of the corner has to be up and the outside pedal down Lesson number four: use the rear brake to initialize a slide in low grip situations (the rear wheel losing grip softens the load on the front wheel, making the front less likely to slide) Lesson number five: start on the inside of the corner, slow down a lot, stop braking, make sure your inside pedal is up, turn all the way to the outside of the corner and then swoop right by the inside of the corner. (watch this minutephysics video to get a better idea of what i'm talking about: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otKCnsliy9SydIE.html ) That should be all you need to know about sharp bicycle turns :)

Only children and speed cyclists, tourists get laughed at

Only exceptions are children, tourists, people on road bikes, those learning and those more confident cycling using a helmet than not. There's probably more. I've never seen anyone laugh at others using a helmet, even on city bikes.

@@feladirr I did, many times. Sometimes they even get slaughtered or shot. And rightly so, those fucking helmet wearing crazy fuckedup pretentious bastards!!

What about cycling wasn't worth it?

@@JohnBarrow1961 I think most people would take what makes the most sense. I used to bike to work because it was the most efficient method. Now that my work is only 800 meters away, I just walk.

Same in Germany :'(

how is it that they cruise so long when its one speed

@@raybon7939 The Netherlands is very flat .Ideal for cycling.

here in Broward county in Florida, north of miami we almost Got a bike Lane on east west boulevards. they almost gave us one Lane. but we lost by one vote. one of the four lanes would of been for bicycles only. would of been 12 feet wide.

I am Dutch. And my work is 20 km away. And I do cycle when it's cold, windy and rainy … on an "opa" fiets with a back pedal break and no gears.

I ride everyday to work, even in rain and storms, hail once in a while, from 0 to 40 degrees. You either ride or you don't, days off are for sooks.

My work is 25 km away, about 20-25 minutes by car. By by bike and/or public transport it would easily be 1 hour or more. A no brainer to go by car. But..., if I could live 15 km away, I'd easily choose an e-bike, both for ease and my health ;-)

Why no road bikes in this video?

@@tesmith47 They're banned in the city, if you ride one you get shot. :-)

There are actually cycle speed limits in the Netherlands, within city limits you cannot go faster then 30 kph, in the outer limits you can go 40 kph.

People actually listening to that rule? Plenty of cops have passed me while I had my phone out. They don't really care. It's a dumb rule anyway

@@iamanironman4141 It's not a dumb rule, in traffic you should pay attention to traffic and not your phone. I got in a bicycle crash with a woman that didn't pay attention on the road and was only looking at here phone, I broke my collar bone because of this stupid woman.

@@iamanironman4141 nobody here is listening to that rule even in car they see only there phone see it daily.

More then 30 Km per hour in city limits and 45 Km in outer city limits

Once I drove at my bike ( 25km/hr ++ or faster ) at night or late evening, a police - car driven came along riding, opened his window-shield by button, asked me if I was in a hurry .... I did say "Yes" I'm coming home to late .... He smiled and ask me to slow down ..... less then 25km/hr in town .... e-bikes top speed is 25km/hr .....

Never heard of a speeding ticket for biking. How are you supposed to know what your speed is?

What are they if not Cyclists?

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 He has a point. "Not Just Bikes" has a video about this. They are not cyclists, they are people who take the bike, a little chunk of the day. A cyclist sounds like someone who is glued to his means of transport.