This is Why the Dutch Love Cycling! | Easy Dutch 68

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Cycling everyday is EXTREMELY good for your physical and psychological health so no wonder they love it.

Biking everyday would automatically make you essentially a happier person overall because of the neurotransmitters firing and the release of neuro-chemicals which also elevate mood. Every other country is missing out 😢.

In belangrijk punt is niet vermeld: Nederland is op Limburg en de Hoge Veluwe na zo VLAK als een pennekoek. Geen heuvels, geen bergen. Dat maakt het gebruik van de fiets veel gemakkelijker!

Thanks for posting👍

I have (cough) 5 bikes, my husband has 3 and we have 2 tandems. We are actually going to need to get rid of some bikes when we move to the Netherlands next year.

When I lived in the Netherlands I used to cycle everywhere because it was often the easiest, cheapest, most fun, healthiest and fastest way to get around. The main reason this is the case is because the government and the people at some point decided that having a good bicycle infrastructure was good for the people and the country. Without a good infrastructure, cycling can be a real nightmare and so people don't do it, no matter how flat your country is. Similarly, hilly places with good bicycle infrastructure see a lot of people cycling because it's simply easier, more fun, cheaper and healthier.

It would be so great if other countries would adopt the dutch cycling infrastructure. I've heard good things about Copenhagen and Paris, but there's still a long way to go!

I just returned from the netherlands a week ago. I saw one of these fietsknooppunten and didn't understand what they were, now I do and feel like I need to go there again to try them out.

Little sidenote
People in Netherlands also regularly use the car in many ways
Like for example for driving kinda small and big distances, big groceries.
Last years the car is not used that often cuz of Covid but in the last 20 years the car is bought more and people drive their car more often. The Bike IS still popular tho and in the Big cities they use them WAYYYYYY more often for everything but thats cuz they don’t want to have one cuz the parking is fricking expensive.
but last years people use car cuz of the privacy. Only downfall you have to find parking which actually in my opinion makes the dutch more lazy these days.
Btw since last years the E-bike and fatbike and scooter/mopet are FAARRRRR more superior these days cuz people love to go somewhere fast with having to worry about parking, and its also more environmentally friendly (except the mopets they are loud as hell)
Thats why i love cycling its good for you in many ways.
You get Vitamin D, sunlight, exercise, more happy feeling etc. Only cons are that your open to storms, rain, snow, cold, theft.
But with bike you can go through small narrow streets which the car can’t and its far more faster

Een fiets is handig behalve als je heel veel boodschappen hebt.

Nederland het baie om op trots te wees, dit het die Van Moof-fiets bekendgestel, die beste land vir fietsry op die ou end, buite die kurwe, die geliefde Nederland, dit bedink net mooi en nuttige dinge 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

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