American Reacts to Dutch Countryside Cycling is the Best in the World: 5 Reasons Why

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I wish I was doing that today that just seems I mean look at this this is just amazing to me how’s it going guys welcome back to the channel so I’ve done a lot of videos on Dutch cycling culture stuff like that we all know that uh the

Netherlands has more bikes than people and all that stuff so most of the videos that I’ve done reactions on um with the bikes and like cycling as it pertains to the Dutch is usually focused on uh like in the cities right you know carfree c not carfree but like less cars

Right in the cities more walkable cities stuff like that with the public transportation cyclopaths and all that sort of thing and a lot of the roads that have like uh uh like the cyclers come first then the cars so I found this video right here and it’s dutch

Countryside cycling is the best in the world five reasons why the original channel is called on three wheels I’m going to go ahead and subscribe to them they only have 58 subscribers let’s see if we can’t help them get to a th000 and uh if you guys could go jump over to the

Original video and uh give them a subscribe you know uh click like on the original video you’ll find the links to that down in the description section of course as always I always like to give credit where credit is due um of course I’m just doing reactions so it’s only fair

Now the thumbnail is right here he’s cycling on three wheels so I guess that would explain the channel name and uh that actually looks pretty relaxed like that looks pretty comfortable I wonder if the back of that I don’t really you don’t see those a lot

Around here I have seen them a few times but it’s not that common um does that have like a like a reclining back like the back of my chair here like is it like a comfortable back you know you can just kind of recline back I don’t know

Um I I mean we’re going to find out right but anyways yeah Dutch Countryside cycling I I haven’t seen a lot about the countryside cycling it’s like I said it’s always been about the cities so we’re going to find out why five reasons why specifically why Dutch Countryside

Cycling is the best I need to fix my lighting setup guys I apologize bear with me here okay I’m an amateur all right let’s let’s check this out five reasons why Countryside cycling in benevolence is the best in the world in the world clear signage route making and way

Marking across the entirety of benevolence there is a path Network which extends for over 35,000 km named fnob which translates to bike node there is a mobile app which allows you to plot an extensive route connecting numbered nodes all you need to do is list out

Your numbered route okay on arrival at a node the direction of your next numbered point is shown from where you are using QP s in the app you can also track your position on your ride and find useful places along the way such as picnic benches places to eat and toilets okay

So I will say I mean that’s that’s pretty neat actually but um what I was going to say has nothing to do with that this looks a lot like here like if somebody told me that this was in Northern Indiana which is uh you know I

Live in the state of Indiana in the United States if somebody said that this was was filmed here I would 100% believe him that looks just like our tree looks just like our like everything I mean it’s it’s pretty flat in Northern Indiana I mean we have some hills and

Stuff but it’s nothing like uh down south yeah this all looks just like just like my area actually I mean I I don’t know if it’s on the same like uh is it latitude or longitude I don’t know which one goes you know horizontally across the globe I don’t

Know if it’s the same same as Indiana or not I I know we have similar weather temperature- wise and and stuff like that yeah and find useful places along the way such as picnic benches places to eat and toilets there is also a map at most nodes so you can plan your route

Without the app if you wish fope is mostly for casual relaxed Cycles okay yeah he does have it’s not as comfortable looking as my as my chair here but uh it does look like a pretty high back that’s what I was wondering like if if it’s like a shorter back or a taller

Back you know if it’s taller you know you could lean back on it pretty comfortably away from high traffic routes as there are many Psychopaths not even included on the map we keep traveling longer distances are more efficient but they are mostly alongside roads so are typically noisier and less

Scenic I wonder if that’s why uh those ones aren’t on the maps or if it’s just the maps are outdated two Road psychology and infrastructure quality on arrival at a small village the cyop paath often joins with the road sharing with Motor Vehicles however the road into the village is narrowed with a

Raised speed bump and is usually block paved slowing Vehicles down by making it uncomfortable to drive fast and similarly it is typical within Villages that there is a ray section at every Junction which are often continu of the pavement or Psychopaths slowing down cars and reinforcing pedestrian priority

I love the way these Villages look like this looks like like if you ju it just looks made up you know you you just don’t have that sort of architecture here you know it just it reminds me of like when I was in um Universal St or not Universal Studios Epcot Center

Um down in Florida and they have like different sections that are designed to look like different areas of of the globe like different countries and stuff I don’t know if they had a Dutch like a Netherlands section but I know they had like you know France and Italy and and

Germany and and whatever you know and each little section was supposed to be modeled and to look like um those areas of the world you know with restaurants architecture stuff like that the food you know supposed to be reminiscent of whatever you know so if you’re in the

Italian section it would look like Italian houses you’d have Italian you know based food and Etc that’s what this reminds me of is like walking through like one of those theme parks beyond the fast main roads and your carriageways where cycling is not permitted and the high quality off-road cycle routes the

Road Network acknowledges that vehicles in some instances have to share the highway with cyclists roads with sanal markings only indicate car superiority which means that a cyclist safety is dependent on the individual care of each driver is that so is that what this is is this one of those roads with the

Central markings is that what those white lines are for uh the bike’s got to stay on the right hand side leftand side whatever um side of the road it is and then the the cars for the middle looks like a single Lane uh car like a sing you know for a single

Lane of car traffic so is that what this is is is is a car uh superiority kind of Road whereas this alternative where red TX cycle paths line both sides of the road does the thinking for them as the road markings indicate that the road is

A shared space this means that for two cars to pass each other the vehicles must partly enter into the cycle paaths this decreases average car speed and increases driver awareness which makes the road safer for all you users in conclusion this relatively cheap solution drastically increases the connectivity of cycle networks without

Needing to compromise safety three Innovative problem solving at intersections the Dutch principle of on fleeton which roughly translates as to unraid or to disentangle applies this concept aims to reduce intersections between foot cycle and road traffic to improve flow and safety at quiet roundabouts cycle traffic can be combined to reduce intersections between

Cars and Cycles like this roundabout near Bulk a different problem they have is that the Netherlands is crisscrossed by many canals and waterways and often a break is provided many just for cyclists but sometimes a break isn’t viable as on busy boating routes a frequent boat services provide enabling ramp on and

Off access for all at an affordable cost the boat provision is all mapped on the Fe canope app linking to a Nationwide fairies website four places to relax the Ducks are very welcoming particularly to cyclists and so much so that link to the cycle paths is a widespread network of

Rusant these are points to rest with toilet seating and honesty boxes for snacks drink and local ice cream what is an honesty box oh that’s one of those where they just stock it with stuff and then it’s just an honesty system where you just take your snack and then leave the

Money is that what that is I think it is um you don’t see that a lot here anymore um not saying all Americans are dishonest or anything like that I mean of course you got dishonest people everywhere but uh it just seems like there’s more crime in in America United

States then a lot of other countries but of course there’s crime everywhere you can’t say that there’s no crime anywhere that that’d be ridiculous um of course some countries are safer and some countries have less of it um I’ve seen honesty boxes before but normally normally this that would be in

Like smaller towns maybe at like the local like uh Bait and Tackle you know store you know where everybody kind of knows each other they go down there to get their bait for the day to go fishing and stuff you know sometimes they would have you know something something along

Those lines there but uh or sometimes in front of churches but then it’s not a money thing though then it’s like somebody donates food and then somebody that needs the food would go there and get it you know for the needy people and stuff so there’s not really a money

Thing but a lot of times people here there there’s some people that are dishonest and they would take the money you know uh from that so then they started doing the thing where you know it’s all locked up and then there’s this a little slot where you put it in there

For donations and stuff but uh yeah rants are typically provided by homeowners Farmers or campsites they appear as interactive nodes on the feat canob app which allows them to be planned into longer Journeys in addition the Netherlands is ample with bike friendly campsites hotels shops and

Cafes and sitting outside a cafe with a coffee and cake is the perfect way to end a ride I wish I was doing that today that just seems I mean look at this this is just a amazing to me reminds me of uh I went to Holland

Michigan if you haven’t checked out that video go check it out now it’s on my channel you can just you just search for Holland Michigan um it’s it was founded by Dutch people but there’s a town there and it was called uh uh what little uh Nellis I think Nellis Dutch

Village or something like that and then of course you got the windmill um is an authentic Dutch windmill from North bra Province no South bra Brant uh Pro can’t talk province of course North BR band in Belgium South brand is no I had that wrong North Brand is in

The southern Netherlands South bran is in the northern Belgium right because it used to not be divided but anyways long story short there’s a Dutch windmill in Holland Michigan that came from there it was called desan and it’s from like the 1600s or something uh and there’s like a

Whole thing there um you know with with houses and stuff set up just like this and and it’s it’s just modeled after you know the Netherlands and that’s what this totally reminds me of with bike friendly campsites hotels shops and cafes it looks nice and sitting outside

A cafe with a coffee and cake is the perfect way to Ender ride five accessibility cycling in benevolence has very few barriers to iny so the cycopath network is for everyone of whatever age ability or purpose the Netherlands is so accessible cous smooth and wide concrete asphalt paths which connect up the

Entirety of elence with safe and efficient routs away from dangerous road traffic yeah here we don’t have a whole lot of dedicated cycle passs you know so but we have sidewalks right and then they don’t maintain them you got pothole you got busted up concrete slabs you know you got like

Concrete slabs where one sunk here and one rose here so you got like a like a you know like a cliff there almost uh some of it looks like uh somebody dropped missiles on it like craters it’s it’s crazy I got some footage somewhere I can’t I don’t know

Where it’s at but I may do a video at some point I I wanted to like a year and a half ago um I wanted to do a video comparing you know the local kind of sort of cycle pass or the closest thing we have to it right to

To the Dutch ones and I took a bunch of footage and then everything happened I got sidetracked you know then my channel there long story I’ve had some ups and downs on the channel of course you’d probably know if you’ve been watching me for a while but

Uh I should try to find that footage or when it gets a little warmer out this spring just go get new footage and and actually uh go ahead and do that video it’d be interesting but easy accessibility doesn’t stop there as it’s common place for good paths to not exclusively be for

Efficient routes between name places but to also maintain the same quality for leisure routs this means that it’s wonderfully simple for anyone and everyone to explore nature areas such as forests Meadows and wetlands with no overgrown routs rutted paths or obstructed access conclusion even after

All of that the duct are still set on improving placing to invest a further 1.1 billion EUR into psycopaths and networks over the next decade that would never happen here unfortunately having visited benevolence many times from the UK it would be incredible if more countries could think

About public Mobility the way a duct do if you only take away one thing from this video go and see it for yourself it won’t disappoint I will one of these days one of these days yeah so very cool very cool I like the scenery over there besides the villages because the

Villages look nothing like what we see here but the actual Countryside I’m kind of surprised to see how similar it looks to to here in in Northern Indiana like I mean it looks like there’s the same you know trees uh the same bushes like off in the distance you know you

See like Fields you know in the one scene it showed like a bunch of fields of corn that makes me feel right at home because there’s a ton of cornfields here and then beyond that you know you got the um the tree line and it just looks

The same as what you would have here and yeah so we finally got to see or I finally got to see uh Countryside uh cyclopaths not so much focused on inside of the city so rural Netherlands right nothing about Amsterdam or the ha or anything like

That you know or utri you know nothing about that in this video this is this is the real Netherlands out in the rural Countryside so anyways if you enjoyed my videos go ahead and hit like hit subscribe share the video perhaps it it helps more than you know and I

Appreciate it and you guys have a super fun awesome day and I’ll catch you on the next one take care bye