Highly Combustible Reacts: "NO GEARS?! what do you do on a hill?!" Me: "Hills?"... laughs in Dutch

We repair our flat tyres ourselves. We only turn to repair shops if something is really broken and needs to be replaced, and even then. It is part of our growing up proces. Every dad learns his kids to handle a flat tyre. Especially if they need to bike for 15km or more to school. It is really not so much fun walking 10km with your bike in the rain and the wind blowing in your face. It is good for building character though, hahaha. The "Lamborghini" bike is actually a "Bakfiets" or cargo-bike. It is used to transport your kids to school or take your dogs and groceries with you. They also come with a tent-like roof.

"How do you get up a hill?" That's the neat part, we don't.

"ding-dong" It's a nice bell.

“How is taking a bike faster than a car?” made me laugh out loud. If you ever come to Amsterdam you should rent a car. And drive in the city centre if you’re feeling brave 😄

As a Dutchie I have never gotten use to the brakes on "oma" bikes, I like bikes with handbrakes better. Hills? We're talking about "Dutch" bikes, in Dutchieland we don't have hills 😂🤣😜

I laughed when you said "what do you do for hills". As a Dutchie I can say there are several options: 1. I either start peddling very fast so I give myself a boost up to keep paddling up the hill 2. I'll try very hard to go forward but I'll go very, very slow if I miscalculated the hill 😂 3. If the hill's too steep, I'll hop off and walk to the top. That being said.. we don't really have a lot of hills (at least not where I live), which also helps. The only time I really encounter a steep path is when I use the bike tunnels, but since you go down first, you can use that momentum to get a boost

Message from A Dutch guy- 1. Yes the bell sound is real. That was not a computer trick. 2. No gears is not a problem in a flat country like the Netherlands. Just bridges makes you work out a little to get over. 3. Tires are rather sturdy. I never had a flat the last 5 years. So repair shops don't have to be on each corner. 6. The upright position looks about the same as the "normal" position. The difference is that with the normal position you kind of lean on your wrists while you are cycling. With the upright position you don't lean on the steering wheel at all. It has ups and downs to ride a grandma bike. For short city rides (like 5 to 10 minutes rides) the grandma bike is great. When traveling 20 minutes or more, A normal position bike is better as it costs less energy to ride.

You should reaaaally visit Holland when everything turns back to normal. Go to a dutch concert with loads of the artists you did reaction video's of, ride a bike, eat a stroopwafel. And hit us all up, so we can join in with you!

"What do you do about hills?" Dutchy:"What's a hill?" Edit: "Everybody has a bike repair kit?" Try 5 or 6 incomplete ones😂

I love the flabbergasted face troughout the video, he's more surprised than a 5 year old looking at a magician on a birthday party!

There are actually more bicycles than people in the Netherlands. Approximately 17 million residents vs. 23 million bicycles.

These days many bikes have special tires called ‘anti-lek-banden’ with a special layer in it to prefent a flat tire. Makes a huge difference. I had only 1 flat tire in 4 years where i used to have 3-4 a year.

For me being without my bike(s) is like loosing a limb. Wind in your face, sun on your nose or snow in your hair, yes sometimes even rain: pure pleasures while riding through changing scenery. Enjoyed the docu.

Taking a bicycle is faster than a car. cause almost the whole infrastructure and street design in the netherlands is build for mainly bicycles and pedestrians. and with a supermarket always not more than a couple of blocks away, the bicycle is all you need in the netherlands. Especially in the city a car is useless

American and Canadian talking about Dutch bikes, lol! Good to get a different perspective. I will appreciate my beat up, rusty old bike ( in Dutch affectionately know as ‘ oud barrel’) more now. 😉👍

Outside the Netherlands you need at least 3 gears on the bike. And yes, in the old Dutch cities biking is faster than the car, cheaper and no parking problems.

I wanna jump in to the Handbike, cause I have one. Because I’m in a wheelchair I can’t ride a normal bike obviously. So they invented a hand bike, which u litteraly can attach and detach on and off your wheelchair. It basically is only the front wheel with the chain and steering part, cause the back of the normal bike for us, is our wheelchair. And the crank For us in the steering part so we can drive it with the hands.

11:14 I’m Dutch, and yes there are bike bells with that sound, but you have multiple kinds of bells 14:24 that’s a ‘bakfiets’ it’s mostly used by parents so their kids can sit in the front. It’s also used to put in groceries

Hahahahaha I am from the Netherlands and I just learned that bikes look different outside of the Netherlands 🤣 I just assumed it was the same everywhere in the world.

The ones with the bleu front tire are rental bikes mostly used by studends the yellow bleu ones are rentals of public transport

lol,had a flat tire last week,but for the most of us thats an easy fix,haha

It’s not a handcuffs Key! It’s the key to the other chain lock 🔐

Hahaha laughed so hard about "riding uphill" 🤣 the netherlands is as flat as a pancake. And yes the bell sounds like that! 😁 and basically kids learn to repair their tires themselves 🙃 at least i did. Or just quick repairshop visit

9:12 "what do you do for hills?" we removed the hills so we have almost none ;)

My neighbor he makes a living solely out of buying old dutch bicycles in large numbers and he ships them to the USA a few containers full of them every 3 months or so. In the USA he has a small company which restores the bikes and apparently there's a huge margin & market for it

Yep they do make that ding-dong sound 🤣

In-wheel gearing has mainly three gears, although it can go up to seven. Nevertheless, the gearing system will cause some energy loss due to extra friction. So a fix-gear can be handy in a country with virtually no hills. Although, I prefer a geared bicycle. Nearly every household in the Netherlands has a bicycle tire repair set. However, you can go to any bicycle shop, which is many, to repair your tire.

the posture on a bike is the same as the difference between a "sports" motorbike or a "cruiser" like a harley. On one your back is bent (you're hanging forward) and on the other your back is straight. i can drive the latter longer... uphill isn't a problem , those "grandma" bikes have relatively low gearing. plus, no mountains to climb in The Netherlands, lol.

E for electric. Electrical support while biking.

"Ernest goes to youtube" This dude reminds me so much of this precious childhood hero of mine. R.i.p. Jim Varney a.k.a Ernest P. Worrell

There are no hills in the Netherlands, every place there is flat. Only bridges give some problems to bike riding, and that's only a few meters.

Like these kind of reactions! So much info. Btw, the Netherlands is almost flat so not so much need for gears 🤪👍🏻

Oh, you hit my favorite channel NJB! The male bikes, with uncomfortable step over bar, had a technical origin: in old days the frame was not stiff enough for the mans power. Nowadays, this support is not needed anymore, as folding bikes prove... now it is tradition: you still see few boys on a girl bike. All NJB videos are really well made.

We repair our own bike.. We got learn how to repair a flat tyre when we are 6 years old by our parents paul.. Every family have repairkitt at home and in the early days 80tis and 90tis in a small bag underneath our sadel.. So we could fix it along the way.. 😂😂🙈🙈😍😍

The bell on that bike is called a bakfiets bel (cargo bike bell). Insite the bell ( you can screw the top off) you see a lot of gears with 2 rings insite. When you push the handle back and forwards the rings starts to turn back and forwards. On the insite off the top off that bell that you screw off you see 2 ball like points. The 2 rings smash to those 2 balls. And that's how you create that doorbell sound. Ooh and by the way.... We are not just biking on a grandma bike😅. Now the explanation off the lock. The lock is pritty simple. There is a steel bar insite the lock. There is also a spiral spring insite and the lock. When you turn the key (when lockt) the spring will move the steel bar up and your bike is free. Locking it? you turn the key over and punch the handle down and release the key and your bike is lockt. That's the steel bar you are looking at that is sticking out treu the spokes E-bike?? That's a Electric bike. We don't got a lot off hills. Most off the time its flat. It's the Netherlands by the way. But iff you whant to go up a hill we mostly pick up the speed and then padle up. Without the gears? Well.... Good luck with that😜 your legs will BURN

"how is taking a bicycle faster than a car?!" most cars actually are rarely used optimally and while it certainly is true that they are "faster" than bikes in terms of the top speed that can be reached, the reality is that they tend to not be faster for many journeys, especially once considering the time necessary to pay for the car.

You should check more of his videos, they’re great! The comparison between countries is sometimes mindblowing..being Dutch you take this for granted..but the infrastructure is the key to make cycling fast, safe and great! Keep up your video’s too, I love them!

In the Netherlands you can buy a new granny bike B quality for € 175.- to A quality € 750.- maintenance is +/-50 to 100 € per year 1 bike from €175 goes 5 . 10 years a bicycle of € 750.- will last 60 > 80 years I ride a bicycle (Gazelle) from the year 1942 Best regards Frits

Oh I am so sorry...so laughing.. 😂😂"what about hills"... Youre so sweet H. So much info about bikes...😂😂 Don't get nightmares of it! Thanks H..your so honest funny reaction! 🙏😇💜🧘‍♀️🌍🙏

The reason why going with the bike sometimes is faster then going with the car is: It is very busy in Amsterdam and on the Road You need To wait for the red traffic lights. We do have special Made cycling routes that are often shorter than if you have to drive around them by car😁👌🏽

I have a handbreak bike actually, with gears. Not that you need them that often, but there is the occasional bridge😁. I live in Rotterdam, cycling often is fasten than driving a car.... probably because I see traffic lights more as colorful traffic suggestions than actual rules ☺

The dynamo against the outside of the wheel is actually a little outdated. The downside of this configuration is that when it's raining the tire gets wet, causing the dynamo to slip, causing the dynamo wheel wear out faster. The more the wheel of the dynamo slips, the faster it will wear out and so on. This will at some point result in the wheel getting no grip at all when the tire is wet and then you'll have no working lights. To avoid this problem, modern Dutch bicycles have a dynamo built into the hub of the front wheel to power the LED lights (or sometimes halogen on the front). Some bicycles also have a small battery build into the lights (most commonly the rear light, but sometimes the front light as well) to keep them on for a few minutes after you've come to a stop. This is like a little safety feature which keeps you visible in the dark when you have to wait at a crossing/junction for example.

When I was young I always helped my dad with the bikes. I loved the smell of Solution, the glue for the tyres. 🤣

The small key that's hanging from the framelock belongs to the chain lock that's under his saddle. That bike stand on 8.12 isn't common though. IT's not that almost every bike has one. Mostly bikes have a side stand

A flat? you repair it yourself on the side of the road. 🤣🤣

I just discovered HcX and am having a blast with them. Thank you! Your open mind and questions and all around kindness are a balm for the soul. This video took me back to my childhood: my parents had a bicycle shop. In the seventies we shipped a bike to our Canadian relatives because they couldn't get an upright bike there. When I visited in 1989 I used it .... This one had gears Ontario being much hillier than the Netherlands.

My dad's bike is a classic one and comes with a small tyre repair kit in a pouch under the sadle. Those used to be very common, now you pretty much walk to a repair shop, work or home.

e-bikes are Electronic bicycles that help support you while pedaling. for example with a headwind or if you have to climb a small hill because we don't have big hills 🤣 elderly people often use e-bikes because they then have to exert less force while cycling.

I really enjoyed this one! And I loved your cincere interest.

Hehe! tbh I was giggling at 13:01, when he mentioned a bike 'without special gear or custom changes'. But the black bike appearing at that particular moment, was in fact a VanMoof e-bike (electronic bicycle). 😅 And to answer your question at 13:18 about the flat tire: many of us as one of the parents who learned you how to repair a flat tire. A lot of cyclists often carry a smal repair kit with them as well, so they can immediately repair their flat tire and continue their journey afterwards.

Learning how to fix a tyre is part of growing up in the Netherlands.. Before i went to highschool, a 7 Kilometer distance, i learnt how to fix my tyres.. got quite handy with it.. With "upright position" we mean sitting upright like on a stool, not hanging down on the handlebars.. Another big advantage of these "old style" bikes is that the steering angle of the front forks is quite large, making it very stable, so we can easily ride with only one, or no hands at all on the bars.. There are also old style bikes with handbrakes, mostly drumbrakes that are not operated by cables, but by shafts and pull rods, and with a drumbrake in the front and the rear wheel, these bikes stop on a dime. If you don't need to go anywhere really fast, and don't want to dress for the ride, these bikes are the ones you want to have..

Not everybody rides a grandma bikes. There are LOADS of different bikes.

basically every male in the netherlands know how to patch a flat tire.

And if you are member of the Dutch ANWB, you get road assistence ( $33,- a year subscription ) and they come with a truck to repair your tyre, chain or even E-bike battery, within a hour.

I've learned repairing my flat tyre before I was 6 or 7. Usually I'm done within a minute or 10.

Dutch bikes are sturdy indeed. I’m 59 years old and my current bicycle (bought 2 years ago) is my third since adulthood. A Dutch bicycle can last at least 20 years if you maintain it and store it indoors. My bicycle has never been stolen. I used to have a second bicycle, a crappy old one, for parking at the station outdoor racks and it was never stolen. But when the station got single bicycle lockers, wherein my ‘decent’ bike (with gears, very important! ) can be stored during my workdays, I got rid of my second, crappy old, bike. Now that my new bike has gears, my commute to the station has been shortened to 35minutes instead of almost an hour. Maybe I will buy an e-bike (electric bicycle) as a second bicycle and shorten my commute to the station to about 20minutes or I go all the way to my office, which will take me an hour by e-bike. But I get a free business rail card from my employer, so I’m just weighing my options here.

The bell is a Ding Dong Bell. I sell those in the Netherlands. They do make that sound. It is nice because you can politely warn people without startling them.

WE also have bikes you can lie down own. In dutch they are called 'ligfiets', with literarely translates to 'lyingdownbike'

Steep ass hills are pretty rare in the NETHERlands... By the way, note the seat covers, sometimes even plastic bags. Saddles are sponges and it rains too much to not end up with a soggy bottom on a regular basis. Sometimes there are little tool bags underneath the saddle that contain rubber patches, a piece of sand paper, little tubes and glue. All you need is a bucket of water, dunk your innertube and where it bubbles, there's the hole. Sand it, glue on it, patch. Done! No bucket available, than prepare to use your spit.

7:15 _"…to crappy to steal."_ Well, I use that principle for my car. I own a Renault Megane. Nobody… just nobody, in their right mind, would consider the car having anything valuable inside. Yet, I use it often for work. And in my line of work I drive around with very expensive equipment. An average camera-set I use is worth about $70'000 And after a days work, I have the raw footage, that can be worth a multitude of that. But, nobody expects that to be in my type of car. Well… unless they read this comment 🤔

This was so much fun to watch. A resume of this reaction video: “I WANT THAT …”

E-bikes are bikes with a sort of motor and battery so you go faster, you don't have to step as hard. And we do have bikes where you can lay down 🤣

We can often repair our flat tires ourselves, when we have them :) But i also ride a car and with my triple A for my car it also includes my bike so I can call them to come and repair my bike. :) When i am on my bike, riding in the nature and don't have my repair things or pump with me... i can call them and they will come and repair my bike. Oh and we do not have hills, we do need to ride up a bridge every now and then but that's not even close to American hills.

I've got the answer for 13:17 in this video, basically. Flat tyres happen but we have the "Buitenband" which means outside band, other countries might not use good ones but we use ones that all have purposes. Some are able to destroy spikes on the road like it was a piece of bread. However even with those it might still happen since there isn't one that can survive forever.

tyre repair kit is sold in basically every supermarket and yes most people who commute for work do carry them everywhere

An e-bike is a bike that has a electronic motor built in that assist you while cycling. The bike has a battery you can take off and charge by plugging it into an electrical socket in your home/garage/shed. I've got an e-bike because of my job and it saves me some commuting time. And it's very handy when the wind tries to stop from going forward!

13:20 Everyone owns a tyre-repair kit, every supermarket sells one, and there are bicycle repair shops in almost every village or town.

the handcuff key is for the chain above it. We usally use a lock and a chain when we live in the city

'no gears? what do you do on hills?' as someone who's cycled around the Netherland's, that is hilarious

The frame lock, somehow, always hits a spoke first. It's one of the great mysteries of the universe.

In the Nethelands bikes are by law required to have front and backlights (yellow or white on the front, red on the back) which can also be attached to clothing. Also compulsory are a white backfender with a red refelctor and also white reflectors in the wheelrim or on the spokes and orange refelctors on the front and back of the pedals.

13:18

I ordered my grandma bike from Amsterdam and it took 4 months to get to Pittsburgh, PA. I couldn’t be happier though. The bell is real, the lights are bright and the position is super comfortable. I have a messed up neck and the position that I ride with this bike allows me to go on long trips again!

This was a lot of fun to watch. When he was little one of my brothers was actually kicked of the back of the bike by my father just like they said in the video. He survived LOL. There are actually some hilly parts in the Netherlands as well, but they are very limited. I live in a flat part but I like my 7 speed internal hub gear upright bike😉 . It's nice to go to a lower gear when you waiting for a traffic light and be able to accelerate easier. Also the lower gears are convenient when you go over a big viaduct or going up from a tunnel. And of course, don't forget the wind! The higher gears are cool when you have tailwind or when you going downhill from that viaduct! I'm loving it that your broadening your repertoire besides only music, it's cool!

I used to live in the big city with 0 hills and then we moved to the countryside in a more "hilly" area. Our train station was right on the top of the largest hill there! With my geared bike it is no problem for me, but my less sporty mother has a lot of trouble with it and might actually step off (and even though I feel like doing so too at times, my pride is too big so I don't ever do it). Therefore you rarely see grandma bikes where I live, I really see them as city bikes! You absolute need your gears here as you either have to cycle hill upward but we also have terrible wind gusts here from time to time. That is also the reason why i see people riding "e-bikes" here, these are bikes supported by an electrical motor, they're more and more popular, especially for the elderly (this also caused an increase in traffic accident severity for their age group). But it also pains my heart that i see more children using them too (in my eyes they are getting lazy from them).

When riding an ‘upstand’ bike your back will be at 90 degrees, so handlebar is positioned much higher than seat and reaching backwards. Sport- and mountainbikes usually have much lower handlebars, at same height or just above seat, having your back at a lower angle. That bell is a typical one found on bakfietsen (freight bikes) from the old days when they were used as main transport by bakeries, milk companies, ice creame vendors, etc. Like a air horn for bike truckers, due its beautifull full sound still very popular.

13:48 Essentially, bicycles can safely and quickly ride straight through city centers and meet very few obstacles. They usually get priority on roundabouts, which we have a lot of, and cars have to yield on shared streets. In contrast, the fastest route for a car is usually to go around the city, instead of straight through it, because when they go around it they stay on so called distributor roads or even highways, where they dont meet any bicycles and can drive at a high speed.

I’ve got a e-bike for commuting to and from work…, a city-bike for leisure to go to town and go clubbing and a cargo bike. Lots of Dutch people often own at least 3 bikes.

“How is taking a bicycle faster than taking a car?” - He was talking about Amsterdam specifically. Finding a parking spot will usually take take longer than the bike ride. And if you want an affordable parking spot, park in the next city over and take the train into Amsterdam. :>

To be fair, these things are hecking reliable, i have one that is 35+ years, and the only indicator is that the model is out of use today, and looks a little old, and that it is rusty af, but it works just fine We drive uphills by just continuing to paddle, the gears are low enough that that works

You learn repairing a flat tire as a kid 🙂. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but yeah. And with an e-bike (bike with electric support) you can be very fast. Parking your bike is far more easier than parking your car. I love to bike.

your smile is so contagious.🤣😂. I'm laughing too hahahaha

I know of 5 bikeshops in this part of Amersfoort (the Netherlands) E-bike is a bike with an Electric engine. So you can bike in normal mode or in Electric mode. And it has different gears.

I have an e-bike, electric. This is very populair at this moment by every dutchie, not just the elder

Convenient repair: There is a bicycle repair shop sf almost every treinstation. If you got a flat tire driving to the trainstation, you leave your bicycle for repair and catch your train. When you come back your flat ture will be fixed or what other thing you wanted to be repaired. Often you can also buy some other bike stuff like locks, tires, bells, cables, a repairkit. Concerning the tires. The dutch bike tires are less prone than the sports tires to become flat. The rubber is thicker and the tire is wider and has more profile. This results not only in a more comfortable ride but you also have more grip on the road (better balance) and less flat tires. These wider tires are very helpful when riding in snow or in rain and can easily handle tramrails. Now-a-days you can buy tires that are very flat-resistant.

9:12 What do we do for hills? Long ago we decided that those pesky hills got in the way of our bicycle riding, so we removed them and used the material to build the dykes. With the hills out of the way our bikes no longer need gears so they're cheaper to build, and we also save money on maintenance. Win, win, win. 😉 13:18 Many people know how to patch a leak and indeed carry a repair set. It typically consists of tire lifters to get the tire off the rim, a leak detector (a small container filled with styrofoam balls and mesh on one side, you move it across the inner tube and when the stryrofoam balls start dancing in the air flow you've found the leak), sandpaper, glue and patches. Once you've found the leak you lightly sand the inner tube to roughen it up a bit, put on some glue, apply a patch, put the inner tube back in the tire, pop it back onto the rim, inflate it and you're good to go again. With a little bit of practice you can do it in 5 minutes, inflating the tire often takes longer. Many bikes used to have pumps clamped onto the frame but those get stolen all the time. People now carry either a mini-pump but those take ages to inflate a tire, or else a pump using CO2 cartridges which do the job in seconds. Other recent improvements are self-adhesive patches that no longer need glue and tires with a kevlar protective layer to prevent punctures.

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Nowadays there are more e-bikes in the Netherlands. You can charges yours at home. Its easier biking because it has a motor to give you more support with pedaling.

I love how flabbergasted you look throughout this video. And yes, ever couple of streets has a bicycle repair shop and yes everyone has a tyre repair kit. Every bike I have ever owned even came with a pump to get air in those tyres. Most of the Netherlands is flat, so gears are not really necessary. I'm glad mine does have gears because I live in the exception.

I believe they are called grandma bikes because they are so easy to rude even your grandma of 70 an do it Many bike shops are also bicycle repair shops and bicycle accessory shops. Its also super easy to find a simple bicycle repair kit that includes everything you need to fix a flat tire. Turn your bike upside down, it stands stable on the handles and the saddle. Take a small metal crowbar perfectly shaped to get the outer tire off the wheel out of the repair kit. Then dunk the inner tire (that contains the air) and dunk it in a bucket of water. Where bubbles escape, you ve found you hole. Clean the tire around the whole and let it dry. Use the sandpaper provided in the kit to sand down the inner tire around the hole so the glue can stick. Older kits have glue and pieces of rubber, newer kits have patches of rubber “stickers” put the inner tire back around the wheel. Some brute force is necessary to get the outer tire back in place. Pump the tire full and your bike is done. If i take a family picture and throw a dart on it, its almost a 100 guarantee it will land on someone who can fix a flat tire (non of my family members work in bike repair and it includes me (19) and my nephew (16)). Its about 15-30 minutes of work. Depends if the tire is being difficult. And to repair it by a professional it cost between 15-25 euro’s but you have to leave the bike there for the rest if the day bc they dont know when they have time to repair your bike since there are always like 10-15 bikes waiting in line. I do believe its a skill more people know in the villages than in the city

I laughed out loud when uou said 'what do you do when you go up hills' 😂😂😂 we don't have any hahaha

The Not Just Bikes channel has a lot of stuff about urban planning and making liveable cities. Great stuff.

when i was young i use to stand on the back of my dads bike and hold his sholders while he rides me home. fun memories:D

As for your questions: yes: that bell really sounds like that. We repair omabikes ourselves, no need for a repair shop. But every little town has a repair shop. Even towns that don;'t have car repair shops do have a bike repair shop. We also have mobile repair services. And I even have e repair service monthly paid membership. I ride a transportbike. About the upright posistion: The omafiets has an upright position, you dont lean any of your weight on the steering handle at all. All your weight is on the seat of the bike. The handle is just for steering and hanging baskets on. A bike is MUCH faster than a car in any situation because we have good city planning around bikes. Bike lanes, and even ebike lanes. EBikes are bikes with an electric supportive motor. They go really fast! Bike lanes, tunnels, and not permitting cars everywhere makes going by bike much faster. The capacity of our way of transport is much bigger because of this. a 100 times more people can be go from a to b using bikes and public transport than by using cars. Also it means less noise, we have silence in our cities. Watch this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebqGYNqo2OCrp2w.html

Yes, we can go to the supermarket to buy a spare inner tire or a repair kit, mostly its the larger stores. The smaller stores often don't carry spare inner tires.

13:15 Most of the people here repair their own flat tire, it's very easy. Most people have a little repair kit, some even have a little bag under the saddle with repair stuff in it. And if you can't or don't know how. just walk in a bicycle shop. 90% of them can help you out.

We even have triple A for people who are not so convient when it comes to fixing a flat tyre.

Funny enough, we actually do have lay down bicycles. 'Ligfietsen'. People either love or hate them. From what I hear they are very comfortable and fast, since you don't catch a lot of wind. But their height is about 4ft. Which doesn't exactly makes them very safe in terms of visibility. So they are considered unsafe in the cities. But if cycling on small straight country roads is the plan, then I can imagine why people like them. There is a more extreme version as well. The Velomobiel. The idea is the same, but it has 3 wheels and a racecar like cover for even less air drag.

Not sure if you already got the answer but, an E-bike is a bike supported by an electrical engine (They go fast AF) Greetings from The Netherlands. Loving your video's!