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Try riding one of these bikes over an over pass, not a good idea and try riding one while out of the saddle, oh boy you got another thing coming. It might be good going down hill but then again you'll need to get up the hill first.

A great bike for 1920. Technology has moved on since then.

Hefty is no good for long distances. This bike would be terrible for a fifty mile trip with hills.

No good for hills.

Seriously i think the Dutch bikes are the best, and peoplein the city. Esp these days we have people with so many funky choices and their fancy designs and brands, models, ridiculous marketing, making simple cycling expensive, cyclists became stupid and ride like maniacs. Im going to get a dutch bike.

the 19th century english standard bicycle

These are often dirt cheap bicycles , and it shows off soon enough if you use it frequently.. dollar store " brandd " like Popal , Altra , Dutch Delight , Elops etc etc are usually the brands .

They're to good to be....

What an annoying voice. Is this done by AI?

You forget one important thing by sitting upright you also have a much better view of the road and of the other road users around you Best regards Frits

Correction. The Netherlands have been a cycling nation since almost a century and a half ago and not since the seventies of last century. In 1896 the first bike path led to the railway station of Nuenen, a town in the south of the country and a couple of years later the first steps towards a nation wide cycle infrastructure were set.

Haha, i would love to see one of these bikes beat my carbon 7kg bike

This video has many inaccuracies, but good try

Its lacking a rear rack , but in my opinion the best bike for urban commutes is a full suspension mountainbike . More durable and " hop off sidewalk" proof . It often goes wrong at that point . And these oma fietsen dont like things like cobblestones very much .a full suspension mtb doesnt care .im not even talking about taking hills . And yeah , i live in the Netherlands.

Never heard

ในประเทศไทยมีทรงแบบนี้ คนไทยเรียกเฟรมแบบนี้ว่า "จักรยานโบราณทรงคานโค้ง"

This guy doesn´t really know what an omafiets is. Apart from the fact that the video mostly just shows a bunch of random bikes, he regularly gives close-ups of types that only somewhat resemble one. Also, few have gears, let alone eight. And it's not "ommafiets". But uh... C+ for effort?

We had a bicycle culture long before the 70's. Also oma is not pronounced like comma, but like the o in 'home' or 'omen'.. so oh-mah, not ommah. Most bicycles are neutral in color, but they can come in all kinds of colors. The oma-fiets doesn't have gears, but other bicycles can have gears (mostly 3 and sometimes more if it's an e-bicycle).

Just got a gazelle step through antilope primeur in cali. Best bike I’ve ever and will ever have. Durable too . Went over a half foot bump at 20 mph and only have a slight bend in the wheels. But heavy as your mom. The hills are a workout for sure . I’ll have this baby forever!

these days they call it a oma (grandma) bike. But originaly, in the 20 and 30's it was a priest bike. Priest were wearing long dresses. Just a historical fact 🙂

Also called Hallelujafiets!

1970s, shows footage from the 1910s and 20s..

it's like the vw beetle of bikes 😀!

HERO,HERCULES AND BSA ROADSTERS ARE BEST BIKES IN THE WORLD,GO AND CHECK

What you say is accurate, but the stock footage shown is not relevant to the subject. In between a few images of Dutch bikes are stock footage of the bent forward straight arm bikes that are the opposite.

I have adapted a 80's mtb to be a single speed omafiet. This is a rugged but still fairly light frame. I found a large saddle with no springs, and a taller stem so that my swallowtail handlebars are above the height of the seat. I have a chainguard built into the chainring. This bike is light enough for my hilly town without too much strain.

Thumbs down for stupid computer voice and stealing other people's video footage. Not to mention various information that is simply wrong. Skip this.

I have an HVZ Ukraine (soviet urban bike from 1987), and thanks to its upright position its more comfortable for daily rides than most of my newer bikes. If your urban "dutch" bike has gears too, you're golden - you can use it for long trips too if you need to. You dont need some fancy road or touring bike, unless you're planning to race someone on the way.

Bullshit

Sorry, but your info on taking your bike into the train is incorrect. During weekdays you can take your bike on the train between 09.00 - 16.00 hours and in the evening between 18.30 - 06.30 hours. During the weekend, holidays, july and august the time limitations do not apply. Do not forget to buy a additional train ticket for your bike (Fietsdal kaart in dutch). It costs under 8 Euros and the distance your travel is irrelevant. So to travel to the next station or all the way from Groningen to Maastricht costs the same. Folding bikes can be taken on the train for free.

Healty, save the earth

So much misinformation in this video!

I don't even know where to start with a list of misinformation in this video. Good attempt, but very sub par nonetheless.

This video contains multiple scenes that are not from The Netherlands. Very misleading and confusing.

My god, it's not because it's flat. That has nothing to do with it. It's because it's safe. Infrastructure. Why d o RUclipsrs always make these ridiculous claims?

"Imagine when people start wearing helmets..." Imagine ignorant Americans shut the f. up about things they don't understand like cycling..

"You can ride up steep hills with this bike." *(not a single hill being shown throughout the entire video)*

Don't leave out the part that compared to other bikes, Dutch bikes are *absolutely* terrible for hills and long distances. Not everywhere is as flat and compact as the Netherlands.

You do know they're terrible hills and long distances.