🇳🇱 American Couple Reacts “Why Dutch Bikes are Better” | The Demouchets REACT The Netherlands
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I've seen this video before and it remains for me, I'm Dutch, very funny.
The "omafiets" remains very popular here in the Netherlands. You also see the step-through frame more and more often. As a 64-year-old Dutchman, I also ride it (an e-bike version).
But you really can't compare cycling in the Netherlands with that in other countries. Denmark comes a bit close, but has not yet reached the level of the Netherlands.
All in all, I rarely use my car. I basically do everything by bike. I do my shopping by bike every day. A wonderful outing. You run into someone for a chat or something like that. Rolling through life relaxed 🙂
This is a great channel! Urban planning and comparisons between Europen and North American countries. Check out more of their videos please!
I ride a oma fiets my kids ride a oma fiets and we love fietsen with oma who also has a oma fiets 😂
What I do on a bike? I travel to the train station to get from Haarlem to Amsterdam to work. When I get back, I cycle to the supermarkt to get my groceries. When I go to friends or family, I ride there on my bike. When I need to be somewhere further away, I cycle to the bus or train station. And I might even rent a bike when I get to my far away destination. It’s easy as that.
I am from the Nederland s ore country is flat when je don t peddel you stand stil so pedellen back dus never works !😂
I watched this specific frame type making a come back in the 80's, not upright bikes in general but these laid back step through frames. This was probably because the grandma owners died or stopped cycling otherwise. Teens started riding them, and that's not just because they are comfortable and one size fits all, but also they make the girls look elegant and the boys masculine, as in 'I don't care'. Dutch teens and youngsters tend to pretend they don't care about what bike they ride, but they do care about their posture riding it.
We do all with the bike haha. I can chose to take the car but the bicycle is cheaper, easier, and I can park anywhere.
for sure we did the card between the spokes and ride the bike like a motorcycle
Nothing gives me more pleasure in live than doing a bike tour with my wife with nice weather enjoying the scenery and grabbing a terrace for a drink and an apple pie. When I was a kid my bike was nothing less than my freedom. Finding out the bike culture is so typically Dutch and not worldwide was my biggest culture shock ever.
Amsterdam, bikes bikes bikes (post rush hour): https://youtu.be/NR9tBpktnP0
The difference with braking between a handbrake and paddle brake is nothing. Usually just a feeling.
The real difference is that handbrakes require maintenance. Paddle brakes require no maintenance and always work.
I say this as an average Dutch cyclist who cycles between 6000 and 7000 kilometers per year
The Dutch use the bicycle for all short distances, cycling to school, cycling for groceries, cycling to work, and so on.
It's a shame to drive short distances by car. You park bicycles where you need to be. That is rarely possible with cars and you often have to pay for it.
Short distance in the Netherlands is untill 10 kilometers.
We do indeed everything on our bikes. We go to work, do grocery shopping, visit friends in town. Our kids go to school on bikes (we don't have school buses or they will go with public transport), they go to their sports club on their bikes. Even our Prime-Minister rides a bike in The Hague to the government building. Pizza shop Domino's delivers pizza's on bikes.
we do everything on the bike , you name it we do it. Go to a store, work, sport, frend, vacation , night out, restaurant en so on. Like he said the bike is a form of transportation instead of a car, bus or train.
We don't owm a car. And since grocery stores are scattered throughout the city we really don't need one. Within a 0,6 miles radius from our house there are 5 grocery stores.
You should watch more videos from the channels BicycleDutch and Not Just Bikes to get an idea of our bicycle infrastructure.
When riding with handbreaks, you always have to have both of your hands on the steer, and therefore not sitting as relaxed on your bike compared to a paddle break bike. Sitting upright in a busy city is so much better to me, so i prefer the paddle break bike. Also having one hand free to carry a bag or something like that.
Something else what's used in the Netherlands and in Belgium is a "bakfiets" (cargo bike). There is a video of this bike you should watch 🙂
Here's a nice video on what work some people do when they use a bike.(although it went wrong in the vid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbtlgUiavk
Bikes are mostly used for short distances, up to 10km. Yes, you can bike much further, but that's when it's most used. For buying groceries, going to the hairdresser's or bringing children to school or daycare, when they're tiny, later they cycle by themselves of course. No momtaxis in the Netherlands.
So yes, for just about everything. But that doesn't mean people don't drive. From the same channel there's a video about driving in the Netherlands, have y'all seen that one yet?