British Reacts To Netherlands People’s Insane Bicycle Tradition 🇳🇱 – Explore Europe
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bikes you can take on the train ( you need a ticket for a bike also) , not on busses. exept vouldingbikes you can take on train and bus.
The up and down hill argument is totally bogus. Ever rode a bicycle with a strong tail or headwind?
Srry but have to say I hate it when people use speech impaired computer programs as voice over. (The person who made the video you react to, should have been speaking.)
Also I am not sure where this person gets his/her data from but certain things are by definition wrong. Dutchies tend to get their first bikes, about as soon as they can walk. At the age of 12, they should have had several bikes already.
Also the distance is not true. The general average is about 6000km a year on a bike. (Yeah I checked, by my own use of a bike. And I am below average use of a bike.)
I had my first bike when I was 2 or so. First the threewheeler. It's at 12 I got a new bike to go to high school. Probably my fourth bike or so, train yes but not during rush hour. The wind however sucks to get through sometimes. The voice over was horrible. It was a bot
The Netherlands have a chip-card for all public transport, the OV-card. With it you can stall your bicycle at any train station, travel and hire a bicycle at the destination station (main ones). That's much cheaper than transporting your own bicycle, because of extra ticket costs. Buses do not allow bicycles, unless they can be folded down to normal suitcase size, in that case you can take them on tram, metro and train as well without costs.
Though the country is flat there are a lot of dikes and ramps, no level crossings for highways, railroads, canals etc.
And the flatness causes a lot of wind, kilometers against the wind takes more energy than a hill.
The Netherlands are densely populated, distances between towns, cities and villages are short, but most bicycle use is within the city or town. School kids from the age of twelve however have to cycle to school which can be in the nearest town or on the other side of the city. Twenty to forty minutes rides, single way, are very usual.
Utterly dumb video, don't even know where to start. If you want the real lowdown binge Bicycle Dutch and Not Just Bikes. That should keep you busy for a few weeks. 😉
And oh yes, the excuse that The Netherlands is flat and the rest of the world isn't, is no longer an excuse: enter the E-Bike.
And wtf is so "insane" about simply riding a bike? Is walking insane as well?
I used to bike from Leiden to Amsterdam or Rotterdam and back on my "granny bike" as exercise and for fun (now I don't get to those distances any more but I still bike outside the city frequently). It's great. Almost all the roads have (reasonably) well maintained bike paths and many smaller paths run through the countryside between the cities (which are typically distributed with maybe 5-10km of agricultural land between them here in the Randstad), you can get almost anywhere you want to go, and it's lovely to be out of the city and in the polder. And the ANWB offers 24h roadside assistance to anyone who is a member should your bike break down far away from a bike repair shop. A lot of my friends are internationals and many who are here for a shorter time simply rent a bike. You do have some hilly areas (such as the dunes) but its mostly flat. The one downside to the Netherlands is that there is very often pretty strong wind with minimal tree cover, and in some periods quite a lot of rain. But other than that it is perfect for cycling.
12 years to get a bicycle ? Nah, more like 3. And in summer 22 degrees ? Over 30 isn't an exception.
The Netherlands is flat! I live halfway up a mountain.😂That is also more eastern than all those videos.