How to BIKE in THE NETHERLANDS? ... These foreigners survived the Dutch bicycle!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2018
- Biking in the Netherlands? These foreigners talk about the Dutch on their bikes... and their own experiences cycling in the Netherlands.
How to ride a Dutch bike (in Dutch: fiets)? Should you avoid cycling in Amsterdam? What are the rules? Why are the Dutch anoyed by tourists on bikes?
This is a funny video made by Bart de Pau: a compilation of quotes by his Summer School's Dutch language students.
Error: the name of 1 of the students is incorrect in the video. Where Sabrina is written, should be 'Katie'.
Bart de Pau makes more #dutchculture videos like this, check the playlist:
• The DUTCH BIRTHDAY = S...
Do you want to learn Dutch in the most efficient way?
Learn Dutch online with Bart de Pau's online video course:
www.learndutch.org/dutch-gram...
Video made by:
Bart Leenhouts-de Pau and Nicolás Bálbontin
Editing: Claudia Macchiavello
Music: Steelsound
To know more about our:
- Dutch Summer School: dutchsummerschool.nl
- Dutch Winter School: dutchwinterschool.nl
Biking in the NL might look chaotic sometimes (e.g. Amsterdam) but it's actually the best organized country in the region. The bike lanes are very well marked and the (car) drivers are much more aware of cyclists than in other countries.
NL is awesome!
True
Ohhh yeah so true, in France biking may quickly become life threatening 😅
Dutchie here, yes we are very aware of cyclists when we are in our car, cause they ride like TWATS! If I wasn't aware of their stupidity I would have run over hundreds of them.
‘‘it's actually the best organized country in the region.’’.... offended Danish, Swiss, Austrians & Germans coming up.
@@laziojohnny79 For biking/traffic in general we def are that.
'It's so amsterdam, it's so holland' might trigger 80% of the country hahaha
I was like GTFO->
Yeah it triggert me! hate it when they say holland
Zulamun more like 95%
True
Actually, over a third of the population of the Netherlands live in the provinces of North and South Holland. I will bet well over 90% of expats live in either of those provinces, mainly in the larger cities. Furthermore, the official tourist website of the Netherlands is holland.com. So it shouldn't "trigger" anyone if foreigners say "Holland" when they actually mean "The Netherlands". Holland is also easier to say. The few Dutchies who do get triggered by something like this I would advice to grow a thicker skin.
"Why are the Dutch annoyed by tourists on bikes? " Maybe because many of them ignore the rules. Also riding in a pack, clogging the cycle path, almost constantly in panick-mode... Most of the dangerous situations I see are caused by tourists.
True, they just are very bad at riding a bike xD..
Yeah that's is it, I'm dutch and tourists want to bike. They are ringing the bell all the time and think they are the only one on the streets.
And when tourists are not on the bike.... they keep walking on the bike lane and don't move out of the way!! That one of the most frustrating things in my daily life!!
Aug Ustinus and old people on fast electric bikes 😆
Bennie Leip lmao so truee
You know you're Dutch when you can ride you're bike hands free.
Now I have an identity crisis... I never mastered cycling without hands, and yet i always believed I was Dutch....
Maar nu twijfel ik toch echt!
@@TheRealTricky It's a lot harder for me to ride hands free with a much heavier electric bicycle. Hard to take that risk with a front wheel drive and a heavy steering wheel. But wait a second Tricky! How in the world did you not manage to master cycling without using your hands as a Dutchie? This is like the equivalent of Norwegian children learning how to ski before they can walk.😂
@@Elp58Chidori Well, I can't (ice) skate either, and I hate Hollandse Nieuwe. Yet I do drink coffee every day, and nothing in winter like a nice bowl of pea soup so thick that the spoon sticks up in it. And I do love drop. So I'm Dutch after all?
Kwit ut nie mir, heur. Witte geit?
maurits buist that is so easy • in Dutch : Dat is zo makkelijk
Precies, gewoon lekker flapperen met die armpies en djensen met je bovenlijf
Please never ever say "It's so Amsterdam...It's so Holland".
Amsterdam is in no way or form an example for the rest of the Netherlands....Amsterdam is an island on it's own.
Yeah exactly i hate it when people think Amsterdam or The Randstad is how the rest of the Netherlands looks like
I personally live in Friesland and everyone was so confused when I said I live in a really small village and that I know everyone and everyone knows me... or when they came over and I spoke Frisian with my dads side they thought it was a mixture of German and Dutch so I said BÛTER BREA AND GRIENE TSIIS WA’T DAT NET SIZZE KIN IS GJIN OPRJOCHTE FRIES and then we laughed ‘cause they realized it was Frisian seeing as I talked about it pretty often in the chat ;p
Yes, Amsterdam is an island because once you go outside you are just in normaal Europe and Netherlands Europe is more similor to the rest of Europe than we are. There are other islands in Europe that are not just normaal Europe but there are not many and few dan compare with golden Amsterdam.
An island? You mean province
Amsterdam is, however, very Holland. She wasn’t taking about the Netherlands, she was talking about Amsterdam.
Don't ring the bell if you don't have too.
If you can pass them don't.
Only do it when you cant pass Them.
People get annoyed if you keep doing that.
But each time you're doing it you annoy different people, so it's not so bad.
I know, right? Usually there is more than enough space to pass someone. The only time I use the bell is if there are like 3/4 people cycling next to eachother and are taking up both sides of the cycling lane
Anyways if your on a scooter or a bike with high speed you should ring the bell so they are aware of you coming
Just do it once to let them know someone is coming from behind, they could switch lanes for any given reason.
@@BansheeTheThirddd Scooters have horns
Die franse vrouw, het is gevaarlijk. Alsof je in Frankrijk veilig kan rijden met de auto in Parijs.
@Baron Von Grijffenbourg Allemaal met zo'n helmpje op door Parijs. Dat zou het echt hilarisch zijn 😂
Ik scheur anders liever met de auto over Place Charles de Gaulle dan dat ik door Amsterdam fiets...
In België is fietsen niet zo prominent geloof ik toch?
Nederland: Knipperlicht aan; Ik wil van baan wisselen.
Frankrijk: Knipperlicht aan: REMMEN KUT, HIER KOM IK.
HAHAHAHAHA
Ringing the bell, I haven't used my bell for the last 2 years
You will in Amsterdam.
@Rob Blokdijk Zou ik maar doen. Het is wettelijk verplicht. Ik zou geen boete voor geen bel riskeren. haha
I haven't had a bell in 2 years
Mijn bel is helemaal kapot maar ik ga geen bel kopen sinds ik hem toch niet ga gebruiken
Gshama misschien officieel verplicht, maar er word zelden tot nooit een boete voor uitgeschreven.
"We risk our lives more with bikes than with cars"
Seriously? This has got to be the most stupid thing a person can say about riding a bicycle in the Netherlands. Young kids can ride their bikes to school alone, in perfect safety! Cyclists are heavily protected by traffic rules and traffic laws. When a a motor vehicle is involved in an accident with a bicycle, the motor vehicle will always be put at fault (first) unless the fault of the cyclist can be proven.
I think she was talking about herself personally. I can see how it would be risky if she'd get on a bike.
Was dissapointed by her comment too, especially since France isn't that unfriendly for bikes, so her comment is not representative of people from her country. Luckily France is improving on the matter. Also, most cycle accidents involve a car, so let's not reverse the blame.
@@Atticellar That's the whole point. A Dutch car owner parks his car and uses his bike to go where ever (s)he needs to be. This makes him or her perfectly aware of the dangers a car can cause for the many, many bike riders of all age in the Netherlands and use common sense to drive accordingly.
ruclips.net/video/CLurEnjOeMo/видео.html
They all sound like they are living in Amsterdam or the center of one of the other larger cities. Cycling in the Netherlands is usually much more relaxed. Still, a pedestrian who is new to the traffic system in the Netherlands needs to learn where (not) to walk, even in the relatively quiet places.
We were🤣
Unless you live in Barendrecht, where you best bike on the pavement as all the pedestrians use the bike lanes!
Small Vocaloid and UTAU Promotions jtruee
Come to Groningen. Cyclists are even worse here than in Amsterdam 😂
Who the F weares a helmet on a bike? It just sounds crazy as a Dutch person :)
As an Italian person as well to be honest
ArvSaysHello very young children sometimes do.
ArvSaysHello and also hello I’m Dutch and not crazy lmao
Youre soooooo right @ArvSaysHello
In NL we usually ride bicycles where you sit straight up so you have a wider and forward look-angle and a more relaxed pace, unlike the sport-bicycles which are more used elsewhere. Helmets are quit common on sport-bicycle in the NL too.
Funny, I moved to Portugal, sold my Dutch bike and bought a car. 4 years later, depressed, I bought a bike again. Depressions gone, no Prozac... Just movement, fresh air, and control over something that costs € 400,- max and lasts 20 years with minimal maintenance.
also it doesn't hurt the environment like cars do
€400?? damn, in Amsterdam, when my bike broke (literally in half, funny story), I got a perfectly good omafiets for €40 (from a Portuguese guy, ironically)
Psychologists have discovered that it is impossible to be depressed when you are riding your bike. But you have discovered this by yourself. A 2 wheel, 400 Euro medicine for your depression.
The netherlands is the safest place to bike, if you keep tourist out of the equasion
I think I've seen somebody ask "why don't they wear a helmet?" in every video on Dutch cycling I've watched. My question to them is: "why don't _you_ wear a helmet when walking?" Many more pedestrians are hit by cars than cyclists. And the person from France who thought it was mandatory there is only partially correct (if the internet is right) - it's only a requirement for children.
And most children don't even wear them.
It's because in the Netherlands, the road system and everything around it has been organized to be stupidly simple and safe. Here is an example: ruclips.net/video/FlApbxLz6pA/видео.html
The right angle approach makes sure car drivers can see the pedestrians and cyclists when they cross them.
Frank Hooper its not a requirement for children but little children usually wear them When they are learning to bycicle
Actually helmet's do help especially if you're speeds go up, but most people don't have expensive bikes with lots of gears. Also you could ask why are people not wearing helmets in cars? Head injury is as common in a car crash as is when biking. That said I know a guy who died cycling from a head injury, most likely would have been saved by a helmet. I don't believe in mandatory helmets, but this is really a question if you are biking not very fast on a dedicated bike lane then you are quite unlikely to get into an accident it was something like you would have to bike 9000 years. But even in the Netherlands if everyone wore helmets you could possible save around 20 lives. Pedestrian deaths are lower than bicycle, which are on par with car fatalities. Wearing a helmet in your car is what everyone should do.
@@ectoid6316 cars already have other safety features, including airbags which prevent head injuries. :-)
I once had an Asian student sitting on the back of my bike and it was very cold, so I drove with my hands in my pockets instead of on my steering wheel to prevent my hands would die from the cold. Then once she realised I was driving through Amsterdam without hands with her sitting on the back of me she feaked out. I still don't know why, it took at least 5 minits before she realised at all.
+zezizarjaars
To be fair, your balance was depending on your ability to 'neutralize' her movements. If she had suddenly moved you could've fallen. If you bike on your own, that chance is small.
@@Widdekuu91 Well, I'm literally twice as heavy as that Asian girl, I wasn't planning to fall lol.
zezizarjaars. Thank you for making me laugh out loud❣️
I actually do understand that foreign people, who cannot comprehend that riding a bicycle without hands is not an issue whatsoever for the majority of Dutch people, freak out when they realize this is happening. It is probably comparable to the assessment that riding a bicycle without a helmet in the Netherlands is dangerous. Those frights and scares are based on a completely different frame of reference than the Netherlands🚴🏼♂️🚴🏽♀️🚲🇳🇱😃
@@IndomitableT It isn't an issue really, because most of us can do it easily. The problem is, is that it's unsafe, very unsafe actually. Especially with someone riding on the back, one wrong shift and you fall, or ride into oncoming traffic. People who think that riding their bicycle without hands is somehow okay, should either hurt themselves really bad so they'll learn, or just start walking, just my humble opinion.
@@nightfly4664 With someone on the back it's a bit more of a risk, but without the risk for a Dutch person to fall when cycling without using his hands is actually quite small. There are multiple reasons for that.
First, we learn to ride a bike when we're between 3 and 6 years old, and most kids use their bikes to get to school for the majority of their under-age life. If you live in the countryside there's a good chance you're riding 30-50 km daily just to get to and from school. This means we're very comfortable on a bike and most of us have solid control over it.
Also, at primary school most people get some traffic lessons about how to be have while riding a bike, where to look, et cetera. Because of the young age at which we learn how to ride a bike, people don't have to focus on cycling itself, so they can look ahead and anticipate on what's happening around them. Since we have such a huge amount of cyclists, cars are also used to seeing them everywhere. It's why stuff like ruclips.net/video/EYYqlNELbYY/видео.html works the way it does.
Lastly, especially in cities or near major roads, our road network has a big emphasis on cycling. Often there are special cycling lanes where cars are either not allowed (by for example a white line) or not able to drive on. For example, at bigger roads you often have the main road, then a few meters of grass (or even a ditch), and then a special cycling path. This means that often you're completely separated from cars, buses and trucks, which makes it much safer to cycle here. A few examples of that are ruclips.net/video/HOR6zm_Yziw/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/KkPbTvJZFSI/видео.html
These are also some of the reasons why no one here wears helmets, the risks of cycling are simply not as big as in most other nations.
We had traffic lessons and a biking exam at primary school, amazing, isn’t it?
I just love how integrated biking is in your culture. So many benefits for the Dutch's daily life.
I made a mistake! The name of the first girl in the video after the title is not Sabrina, but Katie.
Don't make that mistake at home tho
I live in the states and have carried a lot of things by bike. Most difficult was a 25" LCD monitor. Had to carry it home over nearly 20km. I also carried home a used color laser printer from nearly as far away. Though it helps I only buy dutch bikes. So I can carry a lot and have never felt the need of a car.
Or maybe you can buy a bike trailer or cargobike? A trailer is cheaper, but less limited weight capacity (< 100 lbs/ 45 kg) and cargobikes can haul up to 330-440 lbs/ 150-200 kg.
I work at a hospital in Rotterdam as a radiology technologist. Riskiest means of transport in descending order:
- Skiing/snowboarding
- ELECTRIC BIKES with elderly folks
- (Ice)skating, skateboarding, razorscooter
- motorcycles
- cycle racing/mountain biking
- mopeds/scooters
- walking
- bicycles
- cars
We are a hospital specialized in ER/trauma stuff, we get some pretty heavy stuff. Bicyclists (except for electric bikes and racers) are fairly uncommon and usually fairly mild.
As a Dutchman: I wouldn't say riding a bike isn't dangerous, but the fact that it's second nature and that everyone is well aware of stupid bikeriding behaviour kind of limits the risks. Having said that: tourist beware! There's a lot of stuff happening at once here, the guys you see going through a red light know exactly where to look (I'm one of them), don't do silly stuff unless you've had at least a thousand hours on a bicycle and 10 falls under your belt ;).
My grandfather went on a bicycle trip with his cousin around the whole of the Netherlands, starting in de Achterhoek.
Just about a year after the 2ndWW.
They were both young men, spend a few months in a camp. And now feeling fine, they were curious. Made it into a holiday and visiting people they met during the war.
To me that's one of the best examples of Dutch people on bikes. XD
ringing the bell means
i'm going to go past you, *get ready*
Metalisha No I doesn’t it means you’re an idiot and keep right and stop swerving
in the Netherlands in 2015 one fatality was caused by colliding with a bicycle. That's 1 out of 650 road deaths. And this isn't counting the thousands of premature deaths resulting from air pollution caused by road traffic.
WE DON'T WANT TO PUT A HELMET ON!!
WE SURVIVED FOR SO LONG WITHOUT IT AND WITH ALL
THE CRAZY THINGS WE CARRY ON OUR BIKES!!
WE HAVE SPECIAL ROADS FOR BIKES SO NO HELMETS PLS
Of course we don't wear helmets! It's a BIKE!!! It's not a motorcycle.
my dad would cycle and regularly roll a hand rolled cigarette with my little brother sitting in between his legs on a custom saddle and me standing on the back holding his shoulders.
its in our blood XD
Ik fiets elke dag 12 km naar school...
Woooowww😱😱
En hey
nou en, ik 22 heen en 22 terug. elke dag
Katrien Vd je ouders deden volgens mij 2x meer fietsen.
Ik 15
Amsterdam ≠ Holland ≠ Netherlands. Thank you!
What do u mean? I don't understand
@@stijnbroekhuis then you have never heared about the 'Amsterdam Gardens' (Keukenhof) or 'amsterdam beach' (Zandvoort) or 'Amsterdam wall' (which seperated western capitalists from eastern kommunists until 1989).
everything is amsterdam.
and even we call our team holland.
and we speak dutch but are not deutsch
and randstad is not a city but it is located in holland - but not entirey - but in the netherlands - and also contains amsterdam
i can understand when stoned tourists confuse that
@@Jonathan-kraai Friesland is Amsterdam Lake District. Muiderslot is Amsterdam Castle etc. :-(
Nice video! As Dutch girls, we learn to cycle from the age of four to five. Through wind and rain. Cold weather. Warm weather. Cycling is second nature to us. Beautiful images! Well depicted. Greetz @Allbicycles
@2:49/2:50. Often I see a kid of 3 years old biking in full traffic accompied by her/his parent. And the bike has no training wheels.
We had English friends to stay for ten days or so and of course they too were amazed with all those people going around on bikes and when I told them that just a few hours before I got into labour of our second child I went to the midwife for a checkup, did some grocery shopping and took the eldest one from kindergarten, all of that by bike, they didn't say anything but stared at my husband as if he were the worst one ever.
I was very surprised to see that the sister of my sister in law, from the U.S 25 years old could not ride the bicycle at all😲🙃
I LOVE watching BicycleDutch videos!!
one day I had the job with a friend to put an antenna on our roof top so we need a ladder we could borrow this from someone who lived 10 kilometers further away this we have to obtained using the bicycle my friend on the front and me at the back with the bike the traffic did not know what happened to their.This is the craziest thing I've ever carried on a bicycle yes a am dutch :)
I'm so used to riding my bike I often forget that not every country is like that! 😃
I have biked in Amsterdam to Arnhem on a bike and and boat tour and I must say it’s a high honor being able to use the biking lanes that The Dutch have perfected. Even in Asbury Park, NJ we are implementing bike lanes to improve small businesses, and reduce parking as a problem.
Which boat were you on if i may ask?
I could cycle since i was 3 or 4 years old, still to this day i cycle everyday to work and school. I live in Amsterdam and i think its one of the best places to cycle in the world, very organised etc. I can cycle and steer without hands while dribbeling with a basketball😂😂
"Look right, look left, look right, look left again" 😂
I am a Dutch.
I wanted to visit my old ant(90 years old) who i did not see for some years.
So i drove to her city,and get a bit lost.
I saw a woman,with a door(yes) on her bicycle pedals balancing.
So i wanted to ask here,for the street.
That was my old fragile ant.
As kid/teenager I often cycled with my sister on the steering wheel and my little sister on the back of my bicycle. Never missed the helmets though.
As a German I think biking in the Netherland is a dream because there are huge bikepaths everywhere. You never get in the situation that cars honk at you because you dare to be on the road, biking is widely accepted and I think it's actually slower than in other countries where you try to outpace motorized vehicles. I would love the dutch biking infrastructure to be build in Germany but since we have a huge car industry we have a long way to go
Im dutch and it's really not difficult. I ride 25km everyday and I also bike in amsterdam and utrecht. I ride at 07.30 together with more then 100 people to school. I don't have to pay any attention I just do it automatically.
@@fermitupoupon1754 dat is zeker waar, heb je gelijk in maar ik fiets zonder vrienden en zonder oordopjes in
Fermitu Poupon Zeker waar, wij reden voor de grap een keertje met de motor over een stuk fietspad in de polder waar we zo’n groep tegenkwamen. Zelfs die motor (mét Akra uitlaat) hoorde ze gewoon niet, het is te stom voor woorden lmao
@@dylannix4289 gelukkig is het nu verboden dus hopelijk kom het niet meer zoveel voor
Not only do you not pay attention.... you also don't pay the costs.of a car.. my coworker bought a car for his daughter to drive to school and after thousands of dollars invested it was destroyed in an accident after three weeks.
Ik vind t echt leuk om te zien hoe buitenlanders zo interessant en lang kunnen praten over een gewoonte van ons. Wij zijn gewoon zo gewend om naar heel veel dingen met de fiets te gaan. Dit is echt grappig! Zij helemaal er zo diep op in gaan ik vind dat echt leuk om te zien😂🤩
When you cycle in Amsterdam city centre on rush hour you can say you survived.
in the Netherlands driving a car is actually more dangerous than riding a bike.
Haha I once bought a small dinner table at ikea and brought it home on my bike 😂 4 legs and a big wooden plank on my back. wasnt easy but it had to be done.
😂😂😂😂"They start biking before they star wolking "😅😅😅
The Netherlands has the distinction of being the happiest country on earth. How can that be! All those young people tortured on bicycles every day! Making decisions for themselves, taking pride in getting to and from school themselves. Having the opportunities and experiences to interact with the community around them. The audacity of a young person to set time schedules and be responsible to arrive on time.
"Sigh" I type this sitting in my car waiting for my child's school to let out...
@Moa Ire I should have qualified happiest was based on a study, the same way the US is the "richest country". I have driven more than one million miles and haven't found the tree the money is growing on. Keep in mind our tax money is deployed all around the world "imposing freedom with war machines" not in infrastructure. Not trolling just a perspective from the US .
patr10t762 tortured on a bike? Uhm hello I love it. Also the parents of the young children bicycled like 30 km or more in there young times while young people now only do smaller than 15 km.
patr10t762 and bicycling is healthier and if the kids don’t do a sport at least they use the bike. That still keeps them healthy.
+Moa Ire Sorry I missed your response until now... here in the US with mandated health insurance and other unfunded liabilities we have acquired 10 trillion in debt over the last decade. More debt than the previous 200+ years combined, we are not paying as we go. At some point , very soon, the elites will position themselves to profit on our collapse or reset. This is dangerous, hopefully the elites will embrace the suck and profit from the reset and not lash out with war. In my limited lifetime we will be brought down a few notches. Much like Japan where 1 yen = 1¢ US. It has already started with our trade with China, imposing higher tariffs and taxes on imported goods is a hidden tax, the companies pass the cost on to us as the goods get more expensive and we are taxed by proxy. In the end it sucks what the system does to the people, with that we have 21st century conveniences and medicine and peace.
+Zoë P. Here in the US our kids are dependent and coddled. The bike helmet laws and propaganda have instilled fear in parents so cycling is down, yet the injuries remain the same due to inexperience and the mentality of "I can take that risk I am wearing a helmet".
So we have a generation of hyper and diabetic kids coming up that can't even 'fix a sammich'
Oh my, that Iranian girl is so cute.... I totally fell in love
Yeah, very nice
you are not alone in that, she is very nice and cute
Iraanse dames zien er over het algemeen zeer goed uit.
Me I liked the one from France
I live in the netherlands and I was able to cycle when i was 2 years old
1:07 is that so? The bikes at my uni all have unused bells 😂😂😂
Look left, look right, look left, look up, look down, look 10km ahead, look back, look into the third dimension, go and you'll still get hit by a bike 😂
If this is the case. Just don't get on a bike. If you can actually ride a bike and understand the rules its easy.
@@thimovandespreng2553 agreed, was more towards the visitors on holiday here, never thought I'd get a serious reaction on this lol
A MAST! Of his BOAT! Hahahahaha!!
he probably carried it horizontal :D
I hardly ever use my bell, lmao
In Amsterdam an average man or woman has 3 bikes
Duco Kalkman Well sadly I only have one bike
Duco Kalkman but I’m not from Amsterdam so still not feeling left out
I have one broken bike, one wotking bike at my place and one at my parents place. Not even living in Amsterdam.
And 2 of the 3 are stolen ;-)
@@henzelmen that is so go dam treu
They call it dangerous even though we have some of the best bicycle routes and roads in the world
it might seem chaotic but there's rules for everything and we all know them. When we're on our bike we assume everyone follows these, and when you don't you'll get a few cuss words thrown your way. It might just seem chaotic cause there's constantly people passing each other and joining and it's so many people, but we're actually very organised and automatically look around and make sure we don't cause accidents. We just expect other people to do the same.
So funny, for us Dutchies it's so easy. I never had any problem or dangerous moments on bikes.
You know that you are true Dutch when the only thing that surprises you about this video, is the fact that what is common to you is surprising to foreigners. 🙋🏼♀️
As a Dutch person, even from just a town, I never had problems with bikers anywhere I went in my country, I slipped 4 times in my life in the last 6 years, and I've never been hit by a bike
"it's so amsterdam, it's so holland" uMMm ik ben diep beledigd
Even though I'm Dutch and I can't ride a bike. It's very interesting to see that such a small country can have such a passion for biking.
It's not about passion, it's about the fastest and cheapest way to get to one's destination.
I believe much Dutch aren't even particularly fond of biking.
When I was on Holiday in Greece there was just a car lane. No side walk.
I'm glad that I live in a very quiet village, still bikers obviously, but no rush hour bike traffic, for the most part, though the dijk near us is pretty popular so lots of racing bikers go on it in good weather, but I usually miss them anyways. It's something to get used to, biking, I only did it in my neighborhood, but I do love it, once I get my stamina up :P My favorite thing though, is seeing lots of elderly biking, like that has to be so good for them, and also I am always amazed when I see super small children on regular bikes no problem!!!
MsSilentH well I live in a small village and we still have a rush hour for CARS. Which as a young biker is dangerous. Around the times everyone goes to work and comes back you can’t really bicycle safely unless you are very alert. And like only 2 years ago was the last accident (which was not harmful at all) between a car and biker.
The last time I crashed on a pavement platform with my bike I was like 6.... 😂
going to school everyday on an empty road (without red lanes) Is pretty relaxed tbh.
Also love how 99% of kids comes with the bike and theres huge stalls. THEY HAVE ROOFS!!! 😃
I was (of course) on my bike when I saw 2 students move on 1 bike, like they have a mattress and than they come back to pick up moving boxes. ON 10PM. I mean i see a lot of weird things but its crazy.
I live in Groningen by the way😉
In the Netherlands the bicycle user has more rights then motorized vehicle drivers, this is both a blessing as a curse obviously. If a car hits a bicyclist, it's the driver of the car that needs to proof his innocence and if they can't they will be prosecuted. It doesn't matter whether the reality is that the driver happens to be not the cause of the accident.
Cyclists don't actually have more rights. They still have to know and follow the general traffic rules (which, I agree, very often they don't and get away with it).
Cyclists are privileged when it comes to traffic accidents involving motorized vehicles in that every motorized vehicle must have a liability insurance when operated on public roads. Cyclists are not required to have such an insurance and so the one with insurance ends up paying for damages / injuries sustained.
So it may seem they have more rights but actually they don't.
Best not to run one over, though, even if you have the right of way.
About the helmet thing: change your paradigm. You judge the Dutch based in you own foreign experience without regard of the specific Dutch situation and infrastructure. To start with: you do not need a helmet sec for a riding a transportation bike. Your head is just as high up as walking or running. You don't need a helmet for that too. Dutch cycling is walking on two weals. You need a helmed for your interaction with other traffic like cars. Instead of adapting the cyclist for the traffic, the Dutch configured the traffic (infrastructure) around the cyclist (and pedestrians). With segregated infrastructure to reduce the speed difference between same-road users cycling and walking in the Netherlands is extremely safe and statistics prove this. And that is: without helmets. And as you can see a lot of cycling youtube videos in the Netherlands cyclist are dressed for their destination. The Dutch use their bike for commuting.There are three exceptions for cycling helmets: Tourists, speed cyclist (wearing lycra) and fast electric "Padillacs". Furthermore: there is a lot of respect from all car drivers for cyclist. That is because everybody owns as least one bicycle and understands traffic from a cyclist perspectiveDepending the distance of the destination you choose to go by bike, car or public transportation. There is no social hierarchy and you don't need to be a lefty vegan to ride a bike. There is no inherent animosity between cars and bikes. This all makes cycling in the Netherlands safe. The dutch adagium is: make infrastructure so safe cyclist don't need a helmed.
Its waaaayy safer than motorcycles yesss
Far more children per capita in the US while commuting to and from school in motorized vehicles than in the Netherlands commuting by bike.
Far more children per capita are killed riding IN motorized vehicles commuting to and from school in the US than are killed commuting ON bicycles in the Netherlands.
Back when i could still cycle, the most i carried were 2 friends, and all our heavy schoolbags, an umbrella... Whilst having lunch
Over a year on a bike to office in Amsterdam and I've never experienced any of this. It's so organized and the chaos really is always tourists. Netherlands is bike heaven. If you know how to ride a bike, you'll never complain about any of the stuff said above.
The only thing you will complain about is the weather.
There's a story told in East Anglia in England of a shot up Wellington bomber making its way back from a raid over Germany in WW2. The radio was damaged, they were lost in thick fog and the plane did not have enough power to climb to a safe height for the crew to parachute down.
Fortunately the pilot managed to crash land without anybody getting injured.
Unsure as to whether they had successfully crossed the North Sea the crew hid up while one of them went looking for help.
He came upon a farm labourer working in a field and, speaking loudly and slowly, asked him where they were.
'Olland came the puzzled reply.
That was enough for the airman who made his way back to the crash site where the crew burned their code books and maps and smashed their bomb sight.
They then set off to look for a village that could help them and immediately crossed paths with an English policeman on his bicycle who had seen the plane come down and was coming to find them.
They were, of course, in the OTHER South Holland. The one in Lincolnshire.
Cycling in the Netherlands is something I truly miss. However, I do not miss winter wet and windy days or wheel-grabbing imbedded tram tracks. But, yeah, everything is better on a fiets. The Netherlands got a jump start in the 1970's, when cycling took priority over automobile infrastructure.
No! It's not I was biking alone the South of the Nederlands in 2014, I was 55 and I'm a woman. Well, I started in 2009 in Amsterdam. I was an alien from Portugal :) Love it to bike amongst real bikers. Heel lekker fietsen!!
geweldige reacties,daar heb ik wel respect voor,ons landje is nou eenmaal spesiaal.leuk om dit allegaar te zien,leuke site trouwens.hartelijk bedankt.fijn weekend.greetz:Peerke.proost!!
i had a friend over at my place and she has never been to NL before. (in south holland)
She: "oh my god! it's soo great here! I want to cycle in Amsterdam! that must be soo cool!"
me: "no. you don't."
She: "lets go there and rent bikes :D"
me: ...
In amsterdam we stept out of the tram. two cyclist were jelling at her and rining the bell before she even did like 3 steps.
In the end we didn't hire bikes. She didn't want anymore ^^
We like cars as well.
Especially classic cars.
You can have extended conversations with quite a lot of middle aged men about the Ford V4 1500cc front wheel drive engine of a Saab (popular brand) 96 from 1974 and the benefits of the aircooled 2 cilinder boxer engines of the Citroen (another popular brand) 2 CV. We still cannot understand why everybody else in the world disliked the Ford Scorpio so much, because we loved them. It was the vehicle of choice of the Dutch Royal Household.
I usually only use my bell for pedestrians. Nowadays everyone just stares at their phone and don't look up when they cross the cycling lane, even in crowded places. I've had so many near-collisions because of that. Children don't seem to get taught to look left and right before they cross anymore either seeing how many of them just jump right in front of you.
Wel they haven't seen when student's change from room or studio on a bike yet, there is chairs, tv, clothing and sometimes even matrases 😁
In the UK I have a honker horn instead of a bell.
I miss Neth... some my fam still there at gròningen, apeldorn, ams and the hague...
In Amsterdam in the Prinsengracht in the summer in front of the Ann Frank house you can hit as much tourists as you want on your bike! Uber annoying because ppl stand still when they hear de bells ring and think what a lovely bell?!
Go to Papendrecht dere you can learn it easy: GA naar Papendrecht daar kan je het makkelijk leren
Ik zou me aangevallen voelen, maar ik heb letterlijk vandaag een gast gezien met een verwarming achterop de fiets
"and you're probably still going to get hit."
Obviously never went cycling in London.
Learnt to bike in the Netherlands ❤️❤️
Bedankt veel interessante
Watte? Waar kom jii vandaan?!
@@sjoerdstougie Canada.
Bedankt, heel interessant. Fixed it for you. Not trying to be a grammar nazi and I like it when foreigners learn Dutch, corrections just make learning it easier
@@frisianmouve bedankt ik vind het is beter als je me de errors vertelde, dan me niets zeggen en ik continue op.
@@zimbarujane Bedankt, ik vind het beter dat je me de fouten verteld ipv (abbreviation of in plaats van) niets zeggen en dat ik er mee doorga.
I found the infrastructure to be unbelievable great and I personally think we Germans go faster on the bike. On the other hand Dutch people tend to be very lasse-faire regarding rules of the roads (red lights) and you really have to look out for people weaving in and out, especially if you're in a bulk of bike traffic. In Germany we are more rule-fixed; well, our infrastructure is different and way worse.
I miss the bycicle roads from the Netherlands. I live in Thailand, but lucky, there are more bycicle roads coming and now I have a nice route of about 50 km of which 40 is pure bycicle road near my house...
It is so funny, because relatively we have the least bycicle accidents
haha I once wasn't allowed to walk without my crutches because os some medical problems so in one hand I took both of the crutches and in the other one my shopping bag on the bike to do groceries.... didn't even needed a hand for the steering lol
i have a weird country. i live in the netherlands. de car is too expensive so sometimes we need to bike like an hour with our stuff
Hallo iedereen! Hi everybody! and, especially to my French friends: bonjour à tous!
Pourquoi mes amis français? Why my French friends? I will continue in English (for all the expats who cannot understand French... OR Nederlands quite yet... Keep on going!! You can do it!! Zet 'm op!!)
I am in Rouen & Paris at the moment and cannot believe my eyes! FINALLY a REAL "Plan Velo"!!! Really good bike lanes are being created at this moment. I (from Amsterdam) am really impressed :) For those of you who just cannot believe me, here is the Paris website (the map): planvelo.paris/assets/images/pages/engagements_schema.jpg
And they are working very hard! The whole city (Rouen as well) is blocked at the moment :) SO PROUD OF YOU! (THEM!) FIER de vous! :) TROTS OP JULLIE!!!
Parya is so cute
The Iranian/Persian girl has a little bit of a Dutch-English accent that's so funny to hear! I wanna hear her speak Dutch so bad.
Don't know what they are talking about, bike lane here are one of the best structered. But then again I never lived in Amsterdam.
You don't need to live in Amsterdam. Just cycling (or trying to) is more than enough to find out about the situations the people in the video are talking about. I live 18 km from Amsterdam and though I am a very frequent cyclist, there are places I like to avoid in Amsterdam (Haarlemmerdijk, Marnixstraat, Marnixstraat/Rozengracht crossing (in front of the firestation), Mercatorplein) Oh... I forgot the crazy selfish bunch of 'cyclists' (read: idiots) when boarding or exiting the ferries at Amsterdam CS...
Parya, the Iranian girl, is LOVELY!
I bike everyday to school😂
Groningen is actually the most bike friendly city in the world.
Except maybe Kobenhavn.
"you need to stop, you need to brake." Well hopefully they work
im from belgium living on the border with maastricht holland and the infrastructure of the roads and keeping bicyclists and cars seperate and even people on foot seperate lanes etc etc it's very very safe bicyclists have right of way over cars all the time and it's just safe the bike lanes are up to date meaning they service it there aren't putholes or cracks in the lanes etc etc
comparing that even to belgium we pay the highest taxes in general but specifically on cars and road tax etc etc and we have still shit roads and bicycle lanes are holes in them and it's not as safe as in holland here also alongside a road where they drive 70km/h the cars the bike lane is just next to it no seperate lanes or devided like in holland so if a car just drives 5 cm to the right and you cycle there he will hit you in holland that's not the case what so ever they have the best infrastructure of roads etc even waterways they also master that they are the kings of the water hahah