Reaction To The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing
This is my reaction to The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing
In this video I react to Dutch culture by reacting to another interesting and unique Dutch sporting activity called headwind cycling.
Original Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMinwf-kRlA
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"If this is our weather, we might aswell make it fun."
Love your video's. But please spend 3 minutes to untangle your headphone cord it's driving me nuts 🙂 thanks
The Scottish equivalent could be interesting: Across the Erskine Bridge in February
I doubt gears are really that much of a help because on a single speed in strong headwinds you keep the balance by standing on the pedals and forcing it a little forward, if your legs go around much faster but the bike isn't, you'll lose your balance too.
And who won the race?
‘Fighting the elements’ is a typical Dutch thing. It is a manhood thing
This is my region; we like a good punishment 🤣.
By the way, we also have an epic coast marathon in that same area, which requires athletes to run over this same dam and through lose sand on the beach (when the tide is high), often through harsh winds and heavy rain. It's the most difficult one in The Netherlands 🤣
It attracts lots of foreign marathon runners, and they think they can run it because of previous experiences in other marathons but this one in nothing like that.
Most common error is that they don't know how to distribute their efforts over the route and suffer really bad in the last part.
I laughed a lot at your video. I am Dutch and in the Netherlands you are born on a bike😂😂
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill you, might be fun."" – the Dutch
The rules for the bikes are: no gears allowed and it has to have a coaster brake.
So it comes down to that is has to be an traditional ordinary unmodified bicycle and sport-bikes aren't allowed.
I know about the delta works that all scientific branches were involved, civil engineering leading the way. But also sociologists and anthropolotists to see how people perceived water safety and why, in different parts of the country. That was necessary to build to a certain risk profile. And also economists to calculate the damage caused by flooding in different parts of the country. Also for the risk profile. A civil engineer told me once that the mathematicians even had to invent new mathematics for the calculations to simulate water behavior around the concrete pillars and mats at the bottom at different weather and tides. I have zero knowledge of maths, so I can't verify.
My grand grand father helped to build this 👍🏻
i’m 67 , never had a car and i ride a bike with no gear from when i was 4 years old. Yes, i’m Dutch.
We have the longest march here; de avondvierdaagse, the longest icescating; elfstedentocht. Though they didn't do that one in decades, climate change. But yes…mostly it is all just pure torture….
Yes only serious sports we do. Like driving DAF cars in reverse on a mud track 😅
Cycling against the wind on a dyke is comparable to breakfast 😂
I live in the South of the Netherlands i did't even knew this was a thing, but i do know they love their extreme sports along the coast and this is just one example from it.
"have you been there"
most dutch people go over the delta works at least once.
its just kinda a highway with water all around you haha , though it is also a point of pride for the delta works is how the dutch told the ocean and the world "THIS is us, THIS is what we can do, we are small but we will conquer even the laws of nature if it treatens our way of living"
I did compete in this unique event. Great atmosphere! To bad last time some civil servants stoped the race from happening because of safety concerns.
lol…we like to give the impression we are a calm levelheaded and pragmatic bunch….but truth is we've all got a few screws loose
Rijkswaterstaat is the part of the Dutch government that's supposed to keep our feet dry. Here's a mini-doc about storm surge barriers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6AZsikK6zo
Weird stuff Dutchies do:
#1 is De Elfstedentocht – the eleven cities tour
F#(k climate change that made this less & less likely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvAPvjSSLH8&pp=ygUVZWxmc3RlZGVudG9jaHQgZW5nZWxz
#2 De Vierdaagse van Nijmegen – the 4 days marches / Walk of the World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jJ9YPkNi8
perspective of a walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsE9C1JoO7s
#3 De Nieuwjaarsduik in Scheveningen(& the rest of NL) – the New year's dive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uChkaHjZSus
Beaufort 10 dike jumping comes to mind.
While in the navy as a midshipman we had the opportunity to do this once as it requires a N- or NW-storm. We had thick, long, wollen winter overcoats (weighing about 8 kg dry, more even when wet).
The thing to do was to crawl up to the top of the dike at Den Helder, stand up and then jump up while opening your coat so it could catch the wind.
You were blown backwards and would land about 30-40 meters down the dike (so 30 meters backwards and about 15 meters down).
Rinse repeat.
We were lucky that no serious injuries occurred (apart from a sprained ankle or so).
I once experienced winds of cat 12 (just below lightest hurricane)
Dit wordt toch meestal op de afsluitdijk gedaan?
If you open your mouth during this race creates an enormous fart. The harder the fart, the lesser the drag. 🚲💨💨💨
This is like 7km from where I live. This is iconic every year.
The legs hurt SO much all the way.
In 1990 the wind was a breezy 150 KPH (93MPH)
In 1943 the record was 202KPH (125MPH)