6:08 most people in the Netherlands have bicycles and one or more cars. It is not about canceling cars, it is about giving people multiple options for commuting. Good bike infrastructure also benefit the people who drive cars as more people on bicycles means less people in cars (less congestion). Me, as a driver happily pay taxes to be used for bicycle infrastructure.
Because most Dutch people cycle daily, we hardly sweat during a bike ride. We do our groceries daily, so we don’t need big bags on our bikes. We often have multiple bikes, for different purposes. A bike for commuting, and a bike for recreational use.
I think it has more to do with the fact that we mostly ride city bikes and not racing bikes, so we're in a more upright relaxed position on the bike compared to a racing bike which most Americans think of when thinking of cycling.
we do still tell germans to give back our grandparents bicycle as a joke, one of my german friends even bought me a bicycle for my birthday and he said "here i got it back from my grandpa, he said he used it well".
My son 12yrs old, cycles 45 mins (8km, 5 miles) to school in the mornings and back in the affternoon. If I take the car, it'll take me an hour in rush hour. We cycle almost everywhere, it's quicker in Amsterdam.
3:33 we have no big cats in the wild in the Netherlands. Biggest predator here are wolves, not that much but the population is growing. They reintroduced themselves some years ago, coming from Germany.
I think the biggest difference between the dutch and Americans when it comes to cycling is that Americans mostly seem to see bicycles as a kids toys and sports items, where the dutch tend to see it more as a utility vehicle. This is reflected in the huge variety of bicycles available, from regular bikes to tandems, to recumbent bicycles and the many shapes and sizes of cargo bikes. Regularly also, or only, available as E-bike.
Don't forget the gas prices in the Netherlands they are the most expensive in the world it's about 7.6 euro a gallon and that is almost 8 dollar for a gallon so it's not only good for the environment and healthy but it will help your bank account too😉
I do use my car for buying groceries, just like many Dutch people. But supermarkets and grocery stores are set up different here. In a lot of countries you'll see huge stores, usually at the edge of the city with giant parking areas around it. People have no choice but to go there by car and buy in bulk. In the Netherlands smaller stores are spread out around the city. Usually there is one within walking distance. I have 3 different stores within 5 minutes walking from my house. Most people will go several times a week or even daily and buy smaller amounts of groceries they can carry on foot or by bike. It isn't really necessary to go by car if it's a 2 minute detour on your way back from work.
The Netherlands is a small country, so the distances aren't that big. There are grocery stores and shops scattered throughout cities and towns. Never far away. For small every day shopping. Fresh bread or fresh vegetables. For bigger shopping we take the car and even drive to an other city or town
The linemarkers have a purpose, the straight lines without interruption mean you cant pass others trafic. When interrupted you can pass other trafic. The distance between the linemarkers usually indicate the safety to pass. The longer theyre apart, the safer it is (i might be wrong about the distance though). And there are some crazy bikes around like, 2 bikeframes stacked, neon lights/speakers ive seen them with beer taps etc. Sky's the limit 😂
Bicycles don’t always have right of way, but on the cycling highways - that are designed to give people a pleasant alternative commute option - they usually do (when it’s not possible to cross over or under). It’s actually a major mental and physical health benefit to commute on a bicycle especially on such a highway, because driving a car or public transit are pretty stressful, crowded, noisy, and sedentary while cycling gets you in a lovely flow state and the chance of accidentally killing somebody or getting huge delays is minimal. And less parking hassle too! Sometimes when it’s cold and dark and rainy and windy I let myself fall into the trap of not wanting to cycle, but I’m usually not the only one on those days that’s an additional car driver and misery and regret soon ensues…
The part about the bluetooth speakers .. don't .. don't ever do that, unless you want to get all kinds of stuff thrown at you, or possibly be knocked off your bike. Noise is a nuisance and this is something you do when you're 12-14 years old and want to irritate your parents and your neighbours.
I hear a lot about getting tyred from riding the bike. But trust me, if you ride every day for 2 weeks, it won't be a problem. Remember you are not racing but just riding. No effort at all. Just when you have head winds or hills, but hey, even that you get used to, just like the rain and snow. Just do it, get over it, and you will be fine. Also, nobody is comuting 70km. People who ride that whole path are there for fun, like this guy. I don't even comute 70km with a car, I would just find a job closer by or move.
In the Netherlands, the walking people and the cyclists have priority to cars and motorbyces. If a car hurt somebody, the driver of the car is responsible. And the person walking or on the bike is always protected by traffic law. Greetings from Roelof from the Netherlands.
Dutchie here. The thing with protection to people on the bike versus people in cars. If you drive a car here and you have an accident with someone on a bike. People in the car are in this case always wrong. So insurance will come after the person that did drive the car in the accident. This can be annoying to people driving a car. But it is much safer for cycling. The thought behind this, is when you drive a car you can much easyer prevent an accident then when you are cycling
11:58 give me back my bicycle, cause during the occupation the germans tried to not allow the dutch to ride a bike anymore. They took bikes etc (metal shortages). But they never succeeded. The dutch kept riding their bikes. And those that lost their bikes, when it was over, they went "give me my bike back". 😂
Cycling the Dutch way is more energy-efficient than walking. You need less body energy when cycling than when walking. So you are usually able to not sweat. A good physical condition grows with age. That ensures that you sweat less on the daily ride to work. Also mental health benefits from cycling. I worked as a police officer in shifts and I commuted 35k daily by bicycle. There was nothing more that I longed for, than the ride home through the quiet night after a busy evening shift. After that I fell asleep easy.
6:30 i dont know if yall know about this type of bike yet, but we also have a "bakfiets" or a basket/bowl bike for parents riding with their kids! parents ride the bike and the kids sit in the bowl at the front of the bike.
I do not need a car. I have one. But I do not need it. My house is a 10 minute walk or 2 minute cycle ( on google map) to my work. And a 20 minute walk or a 5 minute cycle to the supermarkt. So it is close by. I can cycle to train and go to any place with a train station also outsite of the netherlands. I went once by train to hungary and once to Switserland. Verry relaxing to look out of the window.
6:28 in the Netherlands you can actually have both. You can keep your car and ride your bike. Most dutch people do the daily activities by bike. But if you have to go a longer distance you can use your car. But the bike is nicer, less expensive and faster if for example you are traveling in the city. And you start to not register biking as exercise. You are just commuting and all of a sudden you did a low intensity workout without realising it.
In general people in the Netherlands don’t bike over 1 hour to work and school..in cities not over 30 minutes. On avarege a bike goes 15 km per hour…top. So you see what they normally do for distance. This guy drives 40km…thats not a normal go to work or school trip. That takes over 2 hours… Expats happy movie. Electric bikes go between 25 and 50km (pastis illegal but no biker or police cares…only docters).
11:55 the German soldiers took almost all transportation methods they could get their hands on when fleeing the Netherlands when the allied forces arrived. A lot of it being bikes as at that time cars were not a thing for the average person in the Netherlands. Also cars need fuel which there was a big shortage of. Hence the saying.
There is no rule telling bikes get a priority. Where he tells it in the clip it’s a normal road …watch the sign…and the car from the left needs enters a lane with priority. All traffic on that lane goes first. On foot…on bike…in a car…a bus…allang…a space craft. Telling its for bikes…its a lie.
we have deer..even wolves...no mountains so no mountain leons😂But deer wolves and wildboars can perfectly deal with a bicycle..they just cross and watch out before they run/cross, free sheep aswell on some cycle routes or cows or horses,, just in save zones..you know when you cycle those areas..but yes some times they are in the middle..love it🥰
A lot of bike lanes can be driven both ways, but NOT always. The cyclist aren't given the right of way they still have to follow the rules of the road and the road where he said that in begin of the video the narrator drove on a priority road, see the 'yield' sign before the crossing. When you cycle multiple times per week a couple of miles or KM your muscles will be trained to cycle some distances. Some people are quicker on their bike to reach school or work than by car and sometimes with a bike they can park their bike close to the entrance of their building as car parking lots are further away. In Delft in the 'Nieuwe kerk' our royal family is burried in the basement of the church.
You don't need a car for your groceries in the Netherlands. Hell, they are usually the more inconvenient option because parking is always a hassle with cars! As such I don't even own one myself. I do everything by either walking, cycling, or in rare cases, by relying on public transport. Ubers? Taxis? Cars? Never needed any of those. As for kids.. they tend to go to school individually using their bikes on ages as young as 10 years old. There are special traffic lessons and exams for kids to teach them about the road rules. Etc. As for the 'superhighway' bit, please take your mind away from that terminology. The country as a whole ivery well-connected, and such highways are most of the time not just for recreational cycling, but also for commuting. Go provide a safe, efficient and enjoyable route that connect major hubs of society together, leading to the intended heavy use that one thinks of with a 'highway'.. but that doesn't mean you have to go from start to the end! Most people using such a stretch of highway only use a tiny part of it to get where they need to go: just like regular roads! The strength of cycling in the Netherlands is in the way the bike is a first-class citizens pretty much everywhere it goes, and how things are allowed to connect. This heavy 'highway' is not the end-all-be-all: it is just a core piece of very specific cycling infrastructure that gets the same first-class planning priority as regular roads leaving a city do, except optimized for their needs!
Cyclists basically have the same rules as car traffic, traffic from the right has priority. Unless otherwise indicated, usually with shark teeth on the road. I have to admit for a 60km I would take my car, because my butt would kill me when I came back. Saddle pain is something to expect when making long bike trips untrained.
hey saw you ask we have no mountain lions... think we have 1 mountain in the country.... as far as creatures go deer hedgehogs stoats small spiders i think 1 poisonous spider but have never seen one myself (26 years old) but i think its out there somehwere really small amount of snakes to small to bite humans not a danger tbh so yhea nothing to dangerous
Cars and bikes have different lanes….mostly. The more cars there are the more lanes they get…but in general not more then 2 in each direction….highways explides that go to 5 lanes in each direction…10 in total. Because of seperate lanes traffic flows better…so cars do need thatmuch in smaller towns. Bikes have same rules like cars….if there are lanes on each side…drive in the according lane…if not its a 2 way lane. Do bikes care? Nope. They have a law that protects them…and when there is a crash…the car needs to proof the bike was wrong. Basic bring a ton off proof…if not the bike wins always. Is this fair? Nope. Since bikers break all the rules possible specialy in major towns
the germans / nazi's took away the bikes in 1944 from the dutch people to get the german troops to the front , because there wasnt enough of fuel and vehicles.
@@chimakalu41 the largest predator in that area is a fox, the animal you're likely to see the most is a rabbit. so nothing to worry about on that front.
@@chimakalu41 in the east of the country the wolf is making a comeback, but they avoid contact with humans. there have been cases of livestock being attacked by wolves, but that's mostly because dutch farmers have to re-learn how to deal with things like that. having guard dogs to defend the livestock is not done because it hasn't been necessary for over 1.5 century.
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6:08 most people in the Netherlands have bicycles and one or more cars. It is not about canceling cars, it is about giving people multiple options for commuting. Good bike infrastructure also benefit the people who drive cars as more people on bicycles means less people in cars (less congestion). Me, as a driver happily pay taxes to be used for bicycle infrastructure.
Cycling here in the Netherlands is NOT a workout! It's a daily routine for us.
Because most Dutch people cycle daily, we hardly sweat during a bike ride. We do our groceries daily, so we don’t need big bags on our bikes. We often have multiple bikes, for different purposes. A bike for commuting, and a bike for recreational use.
Barely sweat ?
That is not true, I work in a store and I have smelt some things 😅
I think it has more to do with the fact that we mostly ride city bikes and not racing bikes, so we're in a more upright relaxed position on the bike compared to a racing bike which most Americans think of when thinking of cycling.
@MLWitteman i am a 100% Dutchman but i don't own a bike. I haven't ride one sinds my 16 when I was allowed to drive a mopet.
we do still tell germans to give back our grandparents bicycle as a joke, one of my german friends even bought me a bicycle for my birthday and he said "here i got it back from my grandpa, he said he used it well".
My son 12yrs old, cycles 45 mins (8km, 5 miles) to school in the mornings and back in the affternoon.
If I take the car, it'll take me an hour in rush hour.
We cycle almost everywhere, it's quicker in Amsterdam.
3:33 we have no big cats in the wild in the Netherlands. Biggest predator here are wolves, not that much but the population is growing. They reintroduced themselves some years ago, coming from Germany.
The wolves are getting more numerous though.
Even with some getting shot down.
Also some humans are considered "predators" XD
we do have an open safari where you can get attacked by cheetahs and stuff.
I think the biggest difference between the dutch and Americans when it comes to cycling is that Americans mostly seem to see bicycles as a kids toys and sports items, where the dutch tend to see it more as a utility vehicle. This is reflected in the huge variety of bicycles available, from regular bikes to tandems, to recumbent bicycles and the many shapes and sizes of cargo bikes. Regularly also, or only, available as E-bike.
Yep - getting some exercise is the bonus.
Don't forget the gas prices in the Netherlands they are the most expensive in the world it's about 7.6 euro a gallon and that is almost 8 dollar for a gallon so it's not only good for the environment and healthy but it will help your bank account too😉
It wont help your bank account that much, as everything is getting more expensive by the day, literally.
Maybe you should visit the Netherlands once. I think the bicycling culture will feel more natural than you think, even as a non biker.
I do use my car for buying groceries, just like many Dutch people. But supermarkets and grocery stores are set up different here. In a lot of countries you'll see huge stores, usually at the edge of the city with giant parking areas around it. People have no choice but to go there by car and buy in bulk. In the Netherlands smaller stores are spread out around the city. Usually there is one within walking distance. I have 3 different stores within 5 minutes walking from my house. Most people will go several times a week or even daily and buy smaller amounts of groceries they can carry on foot or by bike. It isn't really necessary to go by car if it's a 2 minute detour on your way back from work.
The Netherlands is a small country, so the distances aren't that big. There are grocery stores and shops scattered throughout cities and towns. Never far away. For small every day shopping. Fresh bread or fresh vegetables. For bigger shopping we take the car and even drive to an other city or town
Or another country like Belgium or Germany.
The linemarkers have a purpose, the straight lines without interruption mean you cant pass others trafic. When interrupted you can pass other trafic. The distance between the linemarkers usually indicate the safety to pass. The longer theyre apart, the safer it is (i might be wrong about the distance though).
And there are some crazy bikes around like, 2 bikeframes stacked, neon lights/speakers ive seen them with beer taps etc. Sky's the limit 😂
We have to see this side of the bikes too
Bicycles don’t always have right of way, but on the cycling highways - that are designed to give people a pleasant alternative commute option - they usually do (when it’s not possible to cross over or under).
It’s actually a major mental and physical health benefit to commute on a bicycle especially on such a highway, because driving a car or public transit are pretty stressful, crowded, noisy, and sedentary while cycling gets you in a lovely flow state and the chance of accidentally killing somebody or getting huge delays is minimal. And less parking hassle too!
Sometimes when it’s cold and dark and rainy and windy I let myself fall into the trap of not wanting to cycle, but I’m usually not the only one on those days that’s an additional car driver and misery and regret soon ensues…
The part about the bluetooth speakers .. don't .. don't ever do that, unless you want to get all kinds of stuff thrown at you, or possibly be knocked off your bike. Noise is a nuisance and this is something you do when you're 12-14 years old and want to irritate your parents and your neighbours.
I hear a lot about getting tyred from riding the bike. But trust me, if you ride every day for 2 weeks, it won't be a problem. Remember you are not racing but just riding. No effort at all. Just when you have head winds or hills, but hey, even that you get used to, just like the rain and snow. Just do it, get over it, and you will be fine.
Also, nobody is comuting 70km. People who ride that whole path are there for fun, like this guy. I don't even comute 70km with a car, I would just find a job closer by or move.
No mountains, so no mountainlions. 😉There might be some deer, but in most places the biggest animals will be rabbits and hares.
The wild horses and cows are also pretty big!
And boars or some wolves depending on where you ride.
got to love you two teasing eachother while discussing cars vs bikes
Biking is not about working out. It’s simply doing your daily things outside of a car seat
In the Netherlands, the walking people and the cyclists have priority to cars and motorbyces. If a car hurt somebody, the driver of the car is responsible. And the person walking or on the bike is always protected by traffic law. Greetings from Roelof from the Netherlands.
mountain lions.. hehe.
we got rabbits, squirrels and the occasional fox.
And wolves
@@PerfectAlibi1 1 or 2 wolves .. and people are complaining about it allready :D
@@Emorphiamusic
Their numbers are growing!
And they have endangered status
Dutchie here. The thing with protection to people on the bike versus people in cars.
If you drive a car here and you have an accident with someone on a bike. People in the car are in this case always wrong. So insurance will come after the person that did drive the car in the accident.
This can be annoying to people driving a car. But it is much safer for cycling. The thought behind this, is when you drive a car you can much easyer prevent an accident then when you are cycling
11:58 give me back my bicycle, cause during the occupation the germans tried to not allow the dutch to ride a bike anymore. They took bikes etc (metal shortages). But they never succeeded. The dutch kept riding their bikes. And those that lost their bikes, when it was over, they went "give me my bike back". 😂
The nazis took our bikes because they needed them, not necessarily to prevent us from cycling.
Cycling the Dutch way is more energy-efficient than walking. You need less body energy when cycling than when walking. So you are usually able to not sweat. A good physical condition grows with age. That ensures that you sweat less on the daily ride to work.
Also mental health benefits from cycling. I worked as a police officer in shifts and I commuted 35k daily by bicycle. There was nothing more that I longed for, than the ride home through the quiet night after a busy evening shift. After that I fell asleep easy.
6:30 i dont know if yall know about this type of bike yet, but we also have a "bakfiets" or a basket/bowl bike for parents riding with their kids! parents ride the bike and the kids sit in the bowl at the front of the bike.
I do not need a car. I have one. But I do not need it. My house is a 10 minute walk or 2 minute cycle ( on google map) to my work. And a 20 minute walk or a 5 minute cycle to the supermarkt. So it is close by. I can cycle to train and go to any place with a train station also outsite of the netherlands. I went once by train to hungary and once to Switserland. Verry relaxing to look out of the window.
6:28 in the Netherlands you can actually have both. You can keep your car and ride your bike. Most dutch people do the daily activities by bike. But if you have to go a longer distance you can use your car. But the bike is nicer, less expensive and faster if for example you are traveling in the city. And you start to not register biking as exercise. You are just commuting and all of a sudden you did a low intensity workout without realising it.
In general people in the Netherlands don’t bike over 1 hour to work and school..in cities not over 30 minutes.
On avarege a bike goes 15 km per hour…top.
So you see what they normally do for distance.
This guy drives 40km…thats not a normal go to work or school trip.
That takes over 2 hours…
Expats happy movie.
Electric bikes go between 25 and 50km (pastis illegal but no biker or police cares…only docters).
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They go both ways,all bikes on the bike paths have right of way from right
We do not have mountainlions but when cycling near the coast i keep a close eye out for sharks....
11:55 the German soldiers took almost all transportation methods they could get their hands on when fleeing the Netherlands when the allied forces arrived. A lot of it being bikes as at that time cars were not a thing for the average person in the Netherlands. Also cars need fuel which there was a big shortage of.
Hence the saying.
Most people that use their bikes everyday have an Electric bike. That will make you go 25 km/h without much effort. About 15 miles/h
There is no rule telling bikes get a priority.
Where he tells it in the clip it’s a normal road …watch the sign…and the car from the left needs enters a lane with priority.
All traffic on that lane goes first.
On foot…on bike…in a car…a bus…allang…a space craft.
Telling its for bikes…its a lie.
Dutch people don't see cycling as sport,they do other sports as well,most Dutch are slim
we have deer..even wolves...no mountains so no mountain leons😂But deer wolves and wildboars can perfectly deal with a bicycle..they just cross and watch out before they run/cross, free sheep aswell on some cycle routes or cows or horses,, just in save zones..you know when you cycle those areas..but yes some times they are in the middle..love it🥰
9:00 Love Noordwijk 🤗❤
A lot of bike lanes can be driven both ways, but NOT always.
The cyclist aren't given the right of way they still have to follow the rules of the road and the road where he said that in begin of the video the narrator drove on a priority road, see the 'yield' sign before the crossing.
When you cycle multiple times per week a couple of miles or KM your muscles will be trained to cycle some distances.
Some people are quicker on their bike to reach school or work than by car and sometimes with a bike they can park their bike close to the entrance of their building as car parking lots are further away.
In Delft in the 'Nieuwe kerk' our royal family is burried in the basement of the church.
We do have wolves in the Netherlands and you might encounter them when you are biking in the woods but chances are rare tho.
You don't need a car for your groceries in the Netherlands. Hell, they are usually the more inconvenient option because parking is always a hassle with cars! As such I don't even own one myself. I do everything by either walking, cycling, or in rare cases, by relying on public transport. Ubers? Taxis? Cars? Never needed any of those. As for kids.. they tend to go to school individually using their bikes on ages as young as 10 years old. There are special traffic lessons and exams for kids to teach them about the road rules. Etc.
As for the 'superhighway' bit, please take your mind away from that terminology. The country as a whole ivery well-connected, and such highways are most of the time not just for recreational cycling, but also for commuting. Go provide a safe, efficient and enjoyable route that connect major hubs of society together, leading to the intended heavy use that one thinks of with a 'highway'.. but that doesn't mean you have to go from start to the end! Most people using such a stretch of highway only use a tiny part of it to get where they need to go: just like regular roads! The strength of cycling in the Netherlands is in the way the bike is a first-class citizens pretty much everywhere it goes, and how things are allowed to connect. This heavy 'highway' is not the end-all-be-all: it is just a core piece of very specific cycling infrastructure that gets the same first-class planning priority as regular roads leaving a city do, except optimized for their needs!
I have a shop a baker and anything you might need 3 min walking from my house. I don't need a car. I have my bike. I get what i need every day.
Cyclists basically have the same rules as car traffic, traffic from the right has priority. Unless otherwise indicated, usually with shark teeth on the road. I have to admit for a 60km I would take my car, because my butt would kill me when I came back. Saddle pain is something to expect when making long bike trips untrained.
My son and his wife have 3 children ,so they have 5 bikes
Most of the children go to school on bikes
We bike from a to be it's nothing special. We don't need deodorant to go to the grocery shop😂
Children learn how to follow the rules in elementary school. They will have their "bike exam" around age 10.
It's not unusual to see 3 and 4 years olds on bikes
hey saw you ask
we have no mountain lions... think we have 1 mountain in the country....
as far as creatures go
deer
hedgehogs
stoats
small spiders
i think 1 poisonous spider but have never seen one myself (26 years old) but i think its out there somehwere
really small amount of snakes to small to bite humans not a danger tbh
so yhea nothing to dangerous
Cars and bikes have different lanes….mostly.
The more cars there are the more lanes they get…but in general not more then 2 in each direction….highways explides that go to 5 lanes in each direction…10 in total.
Because of seperate lanes traffic flows better…so cars do need thatmuch in smaller towns.
Bikes have same rules like cars….if there are lanes on each side…drive in the according lane…if not its a 2 way lane.
Do bikes care?
Nope.
They have a law that protects them…and when there is a crash…the car needs to proof the bike was wrong.
Basic bring a ton off proof…if not the bike wins always.
Is this fair? Nope.
Since bikers break all the rules possible specialy in major towns
With bike you have to watch out for fox 🦊 and wild pigs 🐖 especially the ones with babies
the germans / nazi's took away the bikes in 1944 from the dutch people to get the german troops to the front , because there wasnt enough of fuel and vehicles.
Electric bike .
First
3:22 dion is right and that is why I will not bike ride in forests. If mountain lions jumpyou.. that's the last ride right there.
We ain't got any wildlife here in the Netherlands
@FrankDijkstra wait..no bears or wildcats..like Bob cats? Interesting
@@chimakalu41 the largest predator in that area is a fox, the animal you're likely to see the most is a rabbit.
so nothing to worry about on that front.
@dawatcherz i see thank you for clearing that up
@@chimakalu41 in the east of the country the wolf is making a comeback, but they avoid contact with humans.
there have been cases of livestock being attacked by wolves, but that's mostly because dutch farmers have to re-learn how to deal with things like that.
having guard dogs to defend the livestock is not done because it hasn't been necessary for over 1.5 century.
Geef mijn fiets terug (Give my bike back) was a graffiti far into the 1980s.