We just got back from The Netherlands. We were invited by our friends at Gazelle and Urban Arrow to come visit and check out their facilities. This is my second time going and I think there is a lot that other countries can learn from them. As somebody who’s into bikes, it’s kind of like a utopia of the bike world and there’s not too much that compares.
This video is more of our overall experience but stay tuned for our other videos of our time in The Netherlands! Let us know if you like this sort of content and want to see more.
As always, thanks for watching!
0:00 Thoughts on The Netherlands
0:40 Biking in The Netherlands
1:10 Netherlands trip Itinerary
1:45 Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
2:30 Free secure bike parking Netherlands
2:50 Melissa and Chris Building the cycling City
3:50 Less bike crashes in The Netherlands
4:45 Jason Slaughter Not Just Bikes
6:00 International cargo bike festival
6:50 Netherlands bicycle highways
7:50 Urban Arrow Factory
8:20 Meredith Glaser bike infrastructure
9:05 Gazelle bikes factory
10:50 Gazelle bikes experience center
12:50 1 2 go bikes
13:00 MOVE museum Amsterdam
13:50 Ride out bike shop Amsterdam
14:10 Americans biking in Amsterdam
14:45 Two Tone bikes Amsterdam
15:10 Hotel de Goudfazant Amsterdam
15:30 I need to go back to The Netherlands
16:10 Learning from The Netherlands bike culture
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24 Comments
Moving the the Netherlands?! Quitter!! 🤣
Great video and moving to Amsterdam would be a growth experience. summer of '72, there were quite a few bikes on the streets when I was there back then.
"We were on a tight schedule, there's a lot of stuff up in the air, with Covid and everything else"… Good one!
Nice War on Cars plug 4:40
You definitely check out the cycle infrastructure in the city of Enschede.
This city became the national bike city of 2020 because they changed there whole infrastructure in 4 years. They really tried to make it worth it to take the bike more often and because the center is now less car accessable it's sometimes even faster to go by bike from A to B. They also made bikinghighways, -bridges, -storages and a a lot of inovative things for example an app for cyclers that if you use it in traffic, the traffic light will get green faster.
I'll try to find some overview of all the improvements they made and try to contact someone from the bicycle campaign they did called "Fietsstad Enschede 2020" within the local government here.
People are always talking about Amsterdam so maybe it's interesting to show people how the rest of the Netherlands is. I think your already doing that so far so good. So please keep doing that 😁
Let me know what you think about all of this.
Greetings Dylan from Enschede! ☺✌
And love your video's. Keep up the good work!
Nijmegen was very well pronounced 🙂
YASSSS!!! 😀
TERRA! LUV your video work. Let me know if you are looking for an assitant. 🙂
Hi Chris,
I recently got a purchased a bike from your shop in Long Beach facilitated with your Matchmaker Nancy. I’m a long time cyclist, old school and this is my first Ebike. Bulls Iconic tr1 speed. I can’t stand it!! Too much fun! I’m seventy and back with a vengeance! Love your videos and feel so inspired, Amsterdam is firmly on the top of my bucket list.
Thanks for everything!
I love not just bikes
I share the dream of moving to NL/DEN, but trying to encourage these ideas is the US as I'd miss my mountains too much. : P Appreciate the great videos.
you should absolutely move to the netherlands !
pro's: beautiful building
– east transportation
-good roads
-highways everywhere
– shops at every corner of the streets
– very good infrastructure
cons: -pricy taxes
-pretty hot
-tight roads
– you need to be cautious for the bikes (first time being in the netherlands there were lots of people that were gonna crash into me and idk why. be cautious)
How come you don’t carry Larry versus Harry what is it about them that keeps your way?
How come you don’t tell us for his YouTube channel is no way of finding out. I tried calling back listening again and I can’t understand what you’re saying.
Chris, I am a 60 year old commercial driver. I would like to get out of driving a Truck and ride a bike for a living. But I'm not sure which direction the industry is moving as far as riding a bike for a career is going. It would be very helpful if you could give your knowledge on which way and how long you think it will take to be able have a legitimate job riding a bike for a career. Cheers, Thanks Mate
We visited, and planning to go back on a bike packing trip, all around NL, really putting our bikes and ourselves to the test for the whole summer. We could just go back, and cycle round, but the point of the great infrastructure is to get somewhere on it. We could follow our interests like bird migration, bicycle shows, botanical gardens etc. Sure you’d find something to follow and connect with that’s not just bikes. Love to see you make a journey video sponsored by Urban Arrow
And you are even out riding on your bicycles at night and nobody is trying to attack you or rob you! That's one of the best reasons to move there.
you definitely should, you will regret not doing it, haven't you lived enough in this shit hole 3rd world country called US? people here never change and accept bike (or it's take ages to anything happens if corporation is not backing it up). move to a better place no matter where you live now. just a 2 cents
No!!Please dont!We have already far to much citizens!!
seriously, how the fuck are you guys all just randomly move in and out of EU countries at will and I have basically beg for a green card despite being highly educated. wtf
Don't know if anyone said it already but your first pronunciation of Nijmegen was actually very good.
Gazelle is probably the best Dutch bike brand, closely followed by Batavus and Sparta. The "Spartamet" was one of the first e-bikes that made it relatively big here.
Come to Rotterdam!
@8:00 you talk about that most Dutch people take our bike infrastructure for granted. And yes.. watching YouTube channels like yours and Active Towns and ofcourse Not Just Bikes, are indeed eye-openers how lucky we are..
I have to ride one of these long cargo bikes!