I like your vlogs, I am Dutch. But I still are so happy with our infrastructure. I sold my car, because my work stops. I drove 150 a day, not possible on a bicycle. Now I am 66, pension, so the time is all for me. I drive long trips. I live in the most populated area of the Netherlands, Rotterdam. But you will be surprised how beautiful and empty it can be here. You simply do not see that by car. I was a little kid when I started on a bicycle and I still love it. You let us see with what I assume foreign eyes. The Netherlands are great to cycle. Thank you, my friend!
Whenever you post a new video it's one of the highlights of my day. Riding on cycleways like the ones available to you is just a dream for us in the US, but some of our local officials are slowly trying to work in that direction. I hope to experience cycling in the Netherlands one day. Keep up the good work, and thank you! :)
You bring tears to my heart. I wish I could spend spend a month or two studying and talking with Dutch cyclists and planners. Unfortunately that's not my current job.
I am so very glad to have found your channel, Marc, and can hardly wait for the visit to Europe I'm planning for BTHVN2020, including a visit with a family friend in Rotterdam.
Prachtige video! De onverwachte fietstocht van 55 km naar huis was voor mij het hoogtepunt! Bedankt voor weer een heel jaar BicycleDutch. Ik verheug me al op 2019!
Marc is the ambassador representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the universe of bicylists. This channel is his embassy. Verder is hij een heel gewone jongen gebleven.
Thank you so much for your inspirational coverage of cycling in The Netherlands and further afield. Please cycle in Dublin in 2019 where we will be having the world's largest promotion of cycling event in June. Thank you again. Yours in cycling. Dónal
I live in New York City and commute to work on bike sometimes not always but it’s crazy how there are so many parking lots for cars but there is not a single parking lot for bikes like the one you show in this video, many people don’t commute to work on bikes because many are not allow to bring their bikes to work and fear that if they leave the bike outside it might get stolen and I’m one of them.
I live in New York City as well and bike only during the summers (I'm on transit otherwise). Our cycling infrastructure is nowhere near as safe as this. The percentage of possible trips that are fully separated from motor vehicles is negligible. I believe this is the biggest reason people aren't out cycling. Then there's our administration with the police ticketing cyclists even if they're following the law, but little attention is paid to the myriad of ways drivers routinely make unsafe decisions, whether that's parking on the doorzone bike lanes or skipping a red light.
When I was in the USA, I noticed that most Americans prefer to be lazy. I stayed ad a camp and all Europeans bought a bike to travel to town. The Americans took a cap and as they couldn't get one, they stayed ad the camp. I talked with people in New York about the infrastructure and even some people on bikes, did not like it as the roads for cars became narrower and that people that don't live in the city, are not allowed to drive there car into the city. They couldn't understand that the city could look way better with less cars and more green and space for bikes and predestinations. Even as a predestion, you aren't save everywhere. Most reasons I got that bikes don't work in the USA where. : We have hills. Distances are to long. It's dangerous. I don't like to bike. Hills are there but not that you can't ride a bike plus most places where I went, it was flat and good to ride your bike. The distance depends by person but most found 15 to 30 minits bike ride to long. Also people in the city found it to far to travel in there own city. Dangerous I can understand. The infrastructure is a joke and not only for bikes. It's just insane how many people die in a car crash or get injured. I don't like to bike where surten people. Not to be insulting but the fat ones don't like to bike but I think that they don't like to move ad all. But the ones that think that they are important, didn't also like to bike. I think because they think that it's for the poor people. To get more people on bikes will work with a better infrastructure, but not only that. Education is needed and would lower the amount of accidents already in the USA. I have seen what you need to get your drives licence and it was easy. You can't expect that people can drive as they pass for that. Also most people including cops, don't know traffic rules. It seems that nobody cares. People on bikes can also prevent a lot of accidents. They must choose there roads where to ride better. I have seen people ride there bikes where it's not allowed for bikes in my country because it's to dangerous. They ride in the middle of the road, blocking it for cars what makes that they don't like people on bikes and pass very close and fast. Ditch the helmet. This looks strange, but people in the USA that ride without a helmet have way less accidents. This because people without a helmet take less risks and cars keep way more distance from people without a helmet than with a helmet. Also a bike helmet will not save you from an accident with a car because they aren't designed for that. So change infrastructure, improve the education for you driven e license and make the level of the exam higher. Here children learn traffic rules ad a young age and learn how to ride there bike in traffic.
emiel1976ep that’s true, the problem is also in the government, cars help the economy a lot in the U.S so the government will not want to reduce cars. It’s sad but true, our government is not really focus on people or the environment , they only care about money. The Netherlands government is more friendly towards its citizens.
Great overview of all your fine work from this last year. Now I want to see the Antwerp Velo shared bikes episode. I lived in Antwerp for a year and was really impressed by the number of people using it and how much more convenient it is than the dutch OV-fiets system. With ov fiets the bike still only gets used max 5% of the time when you rent it and bring it home within 24hours. Lisbon introduced it last year and I really enjoyed seeing it there, as I wasn't a lonesome cyclist there anymore. Now Im back in NL after 4 years there :-), Holland is a true cycling paradise! But still there's a lot to improve!
I'm curious about the Antwerp Velo shared bikes; have seen them on my visits there but never used one. In which ways are these more convenient than the OV Fiets? I suppose the Antwerp bikes are scattered throughout the city, so you are not confined to the original location. Can you just leave the shared bike wherever there's a free space available at the docking station? Are these also just single speed bikes?
@@tetrabeetle8630 The Velo's have 'idiot proof' hub-gears, somewhere between 3 and 7. And yes, you can leave them at any free docking station. There are many docking stations (evenly) scattered throughout the city so not only at train stations. The trucks managing the docking stations ride around all the time so its rather rare to find an empty or a full dock (both bad). Price is muchhhhh lower than OV fiets, 50 euro's per year including free rides up to 30 minutes. You can swap bikes as often as you wish to ride around the whole day without extra cost. The whole system is more efficient than OV fiets because there's this incentive to not keep the bike for more than 30 minutes, so the system needs far less bikes. With OV fiets people can keep a bike for 24h for same cost of €2,50. Most don't actually ride it more than 60 minutes during the time of rental, so it misses the opportunity to rent out the same bike easily more than 10 times more on the same day! Today there's the new trend of dockless bike sharing. In theory that's very nice but in practice the companies don't seem to care too much about managing the thing. In Lisbon I saw that the management of the system was imperfect which really made that some people got fed up with the system. So many empty or full docking stations, broken bikes and a non-responsive helpdesk. But many people kept using the system, as public transport and driving (ridiculous traffic and fortunately not enough parking place for all those suburbians) are as unreliable in Lisbon haha.
@@TemwaJ Thanks for the extensive details! It definitely sounds like a very nice system in Antwerp. Can tourists also use these as well? I would love to explore Antwerp by bike next time, even if the infrastructure is not quite up to par with what the Dutch have. I guess the OV fiets is also not really a true bike-sharing system like what many cities around the world have, but rather a national system provided at many train stations. I do use it quite often on my meetings since I'm always returning to the station anyway. At 3.85 Euros per rental, it's definitely not the cheapest although they did eliminate the 10 Euro annual subscription. There's certainly room for improvement, and I wonder if it would ever be possible to make the OV fiets more like a bike-sharing system (many docking stations) at least in the larger cities. But it's not meant for tourists and the vast majority of Dutch people either have their own bikes or can rent these with their personal ov chipkaart, so I'm doubtful this will ever be worthwhile for NS. For my specific uses, it's been quite nice. Although once I was at the Hengelo station (unmanned) and even though there were clearly 15 bikes remaining, the computer kept telling me there were none. Apparently people had taken all the keys to "reserve" them, which was quite annoying.
@@tetrabeetle8630 €4 a day, €10 per week. www.velo-antwerpen.be/. Yes, the locals always get better deals ;-). I used ov-fiets in the past, it's very convenient and quick indeed to get a bike at a train station where you arrive anyway elsewhere in the country. You're right it's not real bike sharing (for tourists). Many Antwerp locals and people commuting into town with public transport also use it. It's huge! My girlfriend and I switched to folding bikes for the every day commute. Living in Rotterdam, working in Utrecht. Bike parking is a bit of a bottle neck in the travel with normal bikes. Some folding bikes are really amazing, worth the high price, even for second hand ones :-). Cheers! Enjoy Antwerp in the future, bike is the best way to get around any European town even if infrastructure is terrible when you're used to NL.
Je zou eens in de omgeving van Bunschoten Spakenburg en Eemdijk, naar Nijkerk of Amersfoort gaan fietsen. Dít is een hele mooie omgeving met een nieuw aangelegde fietspad langs de mooiste plekjes.
I love your vids, keep up the good work and happy New Year. Question, is the gemeente responsible for the cleaning of a cycleway even if the cycleway is on a N road that goes through a village? Thanks JD.
I so admire the cycling networks of the Netherlands and Europe in general. I dream of where I live having cycling and walking facilities that your nation has provided. The U.K. is decades behind and are only playing at trying to make changes.
I luv these videos. They inspiring me to ride to work (rain or shine) instead of taking my car. I may not get to Denmark, so I'll bring Denmark here to Southern CA. Thank you for the videos! :0)
Looking forward to more videos. Question: For visitors coming to NL to experience your cycling network, would there be a particular city or region you would recommend?
I advise in cities and other crowded places when parking your bike to fasten it with a chain to fixed points. Because bikes are used so much unfortenately it is the most stolen object in the Netherlands.
@@thomasabcd2447 Haha. It's hard for me to complain about visitors as I was one too, but when we visited Amsterdam, there were way too many of us. I'll choose other cities for our future visits.
Great job! really. Now, I'm off to face my dire reality. A 20 minute drive with the bike in the back of my car so I can ride to go nowhere. Just to keep the wheels spinning. The US is the worst place to ride a bike.
love to be riding on these bike path with a E-BIKE wow less Laws to go by not like USA to many laws and where you can drive your bikes and how fast you can go . on your bikes or E-BIKES shame full laws here .
![Round the clock cycling in the Netherlands [112]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hb0QjASuuqI/mqdefault.jpg)
I will continue to dream about Dutch cycling next year :)
Come over and dream over here :-)
Pro tip : watch movies on flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies these days.
@Eric Hugh yup, I've been using flixzone for years myself :D
I like your vlogs, I am Dutch. But I still are so happy with our infrastructure. I sold my car, because my work stops. I drove 150 a day, not possible on a bicycle. Now I am 66, pension, so the time is all for me. I drive long trips. I live in the most populated area of the Netherlands, Rotterdam. But you will be surprised how beautiful and empty it can be here. You simply do not see that by car. I was a little kid when I started on a bicycle and I still love it. You let us see with what I assume foreign eyes. The Netherlands are great to cycle. Thank you, my friend!
I will continue to be jealous of Dutch cycling next year :-)
Whenever you post a new video it's one of the highlights of my day. Riding on cycleways like the ones available to you is just a dream for us in the US, but some of our local officials are slowly trying to work in that direction. I hope to experience cycling in the Netherlands one day. Keep up the good work, and thank you! :)
I have been loving your videos, and have been sharing them on various social media. Please keep them coming. It shows us how things can be better.
You bring tears to my heart. I wish I could spend spend a month or two studying and talking with Dutch cyclists and planners. Unfortunately that's not my current job.
Thank you so much for sharing Dutch life with us. I wish you a Merry Christmas and may 2019 be stellar and memorable ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Fantastic roundup as ever! I always look forward to this at the end of every year! :)
Award winning people and cities really. Happy new year 2019 sir.
Love from Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.
I am so very glad to have found your channel, Marc, and can hardly wait for the visit to Europe I'm planning for BTHVN2020, including a visit with a family friend in Rotterdam.
I just discovered you, and I'm glad! Thanks for sharing this, this is beyond my French bicycle dreams ;)
And we will continue to watch your videos of dutch cycling in 2019.
Prachtige video! De onverwachte fietstocht van 55 km naar huis was voor mij het hoogtepunt! Bedankt voor weer een heel jaar BicycleDutch. Ik verheug me al op 2019!
Holland is the Best country for riders in the world ( and we can say a paradise for daily bike riders).Again, Best wishes from IZMIT /TURKEY.
Netherlands first???
@@mikedeltagolfYes...Holland is best for riders....
I must say I'm really impressed for the good with the duchts... greettings from a big fan of bikes from Argentina! 🚴
As usual, your videos are fantastic. They are a treat to watch. Keep up the great work 👍
Thank you for the all the interesting videos through out the year.
Marc is the ambassador representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the universe of bicylists.
This channel is his embassy.
Verder is hij een heel gewone jongen gebleven.
Thanks for all the videos! I hope our country The Philippines will adopt and build more bicycle lanes.
That unexpected 55 km to work in winter ... Well done!
I have enjoyed your cycling videos, especially real time trips. Thanks.
Hi i love your infrastructure its amazing i had the best holiday of my life cycling and meeting the Dutch people they were so nice and helpful.
Thank you for your videos - always well made, informative and entertaining. Happy cycling in 2019!
Thank you so much for your inspirational coverage of cycling in The Netherlands and further afield. Please cycle in Dublin in 2019 where we will be having the world's largest promotion of cycling event in June. Thank you again. Yours in cycling. Dónal
I live in New York City and commute to work on bike sometimes not always but it’s crazy how there are so many parking lots for cars but there is not a single parking lot for bikes like the one you show in this video, many people don’t commute to work on bikes because many are not allow to bring their bikes to work and fear that if they leave the bike outside it might get stolen and I’m one of them.
I live in New York City as well and bike only during the summers (I'm on transit otherwise). Our cycling infrastructure is nowhere near as safe as this. The percentage of possible trips that are fully separated from motor vehicles is negligible. I believe this is the biggest reason people aren't out cycling. Then there's our administration with the police ticketing cyclists even if they're following the law, but little attention is paid to the myriad of ways drivers routinely make unsafe decisions, whether that's parking on the doorzone bike lanes or skipping a red light.
When I was in the USA, I noticed that most Americans prefer to be lazy.
I stayed ad a camp and all Europeans bought a bike to travel to town. The Americans took a cap and as they couldn't get one, they stayed ad the camp.
I talked with people in New York about the infrastructure and even some people on bikes, did not like it as the roads for cars became narrower and that people that don't live in the city, are not allowed to drive there car into the city.
They couldn't understand that the city could look way better with less cars and more green and space for bikes and predestinations.
Even as a predestion, you aren't save everywhere.
Most reasons I got that bikes don't work in the USA where. :
We have hills.
Distances are to long.
It's dangerous.
I don't like to bike.
Hills are there but not that you can't ride a bike plus most places where I went, it was flat and good to ride your bike.
The distance depends by person but most found 15 to 30 minits bike ride to long.
Also people in the city found it to far to travel in there own city.
Dangerous I can understand. The infrastructure is a joke and not only for bikes. It's just insane how many people die in a car crash or get injured.
I don't like to bike where surten people. Not to be insulting but the fat ones don't like to bike but I think that they don't like to move ad all.
But the ones that think that they are important, didn't also like to bike. I think because they think that it's for the poor people.
To get more people on bikes will work with a better infrastructure, but not only that. Education is needed and would lower the amount of accidents already in the USA. I have seen what you need to get your drives licence and it was easy. You can't expect that people can drive as they pass for that. Also most people including cops, don't know traffic rules. It seems that nobody cares.
People on bikes can also prevent a lot of accidents.
They must choose there roads where to ride better. I have seen people ride there bikes where it's not allowed for bikes in my country because it's to dangerous.
They ride in the middle of the road, blocking it for cars what makes that they don't like people on bikes and pass very close and fast.
Ditch the helmet. This looks strange, but people in the USA that ride without a helmet have way less accidents. This because people without a helmet take less risks and cars keep way more distance from people without a helmet than with a helmet.
Also a bike helmet will not save you from an accident with a car because they aren't designed for that.
So change infrastructure, improve the education for you driven e license and make the level of the exam higher.
Here children learn traffic rules ad a young age and learn how to ride there bike in traffic.
emiel1976ep that’s true, the problem is also in the government, cars help the economy a lot in the U.S so the government will not want to reduce cars. It’s sad but true, our government is not really focus on people or the environment , they only care about money. The Netherlands government is more friendly towards its citizens.
Amazing tour my bro, have a nice week! 💚✨
I will continue to dream about the dutch cycleways eventually reaching the uk!
Great video👍👍I hope Philippines and other places around the globe will adopt this.
Best roundup vlog yet.
Your country gets better over time.
I however, live in the US.
Great overview of all your fine work from this last year. Now I want to see the Antwerp Velo shared bikes episode. I lived in Antwerp for a year and was really impressed by the number of people using it and how much more convenient it is than the dutch OV-fiets system. With ov fiets the bike still only gets used max 5% of the time when you rent it and bring it home within 24hours. Lisbon introduced it last year and I really enjoyed seeing it there, as I wasn't a lonesome cyclist there anymore. Now Im back in NL after 4 years there :-), Holland is a true cycling paradise! But still there's a lot to improve!
I'm curious about the Antwerp Velo shared bikes; have seen them on my visits there but never used one. In which ways are these more convenient than the OV Fiets? I suppose the Antwerp bikes are scattered throughout the city, so you are not confined to the original location. Can you just leave the shared bike wherever there's a free space available at the docking station? Are these also just single speed bikes?
@@tetrabeetle8630 The Velo's have 'idiot proof' hub-gears, somewhere between 3 and 7. And yes, you can leave them at any free docking station. There are many docking stations (evenly) scattered throughout the city so not only at train stations. The trucks managing the docking stations ride around all the time so its rather rare to find an empty or a full dock (both bad). Price is muchhhhh lower than OV fiets, 50 euro's per year including free rides up to 30 minutes. You can swap bikes as often as you wish to ride around the whole day without extra cost. The whole system is more efficient than OV fiets because there's this incentive to not keep the bike for more than 30 minutes, so the system needs far less bikes. With OV fiets people can keep a bike for 24h for same cost of €2,50. Most don't actually ride it more than 60 minutes during the time of rental, so it misses the opportunity to rent out the same bike easily more than 10 times more on the same day!
Today there's the new trend of dockless bike sharing. In theory that's very nice but in practice the companies don't seem to care too much about managing the thing.
In Lisbon I saw that the management of the system was imperfect which really made that some people got fed up with the system. So many empty or full docking stations, broken bikes and a non-responsive helpdesk. But many people kept using the system, as public transport and driving (ridiculous traffic and fortunately not enough parking place for all those suburbians) are as unreliable in Lisbon haha.
@@TemwaJ Thanks for the extensive details! It definitely sounds like a very nice system in Antwerp. Can tourists also use these as well? I would love to explore Antwerp by bike next time, even if the infrastructure is not quite up to par with what the Dutch have.
I guess the OV fiets is also not really a true bike-sharing system like what many cities around the world have, but rather a national system provided at many train stations. I do use it quite often on my meetings since I'm always returning to the station anyway. At 3.85 Euros per rental, it's definitely not the cheapest although they did eliminate the 10 Euro annual subscription. There's certainly room for improvement, and I wonder if it would ever be possible to make the OV fiets more like a bike-sharing system (many docking stations) at least in the larger cities. But it's not meant for tourists and the vast majority of Dutch people either have their own bikes or can rent these with their personal ov chipkaart, so I'm doubtful this will ever be worthwhile for NS. For my specific uses, it's been quite nice. Although once I was at the Hengelo station (unmanned) and even though there were clearly 15 bikes remaining, the computer kept telling me there were none. Apparently people had taken all the keys to "reserve" them, which was quite annoying.
@@tetrabeetle8630 €4 a day, €10 per week. www.velo-antwerpen.be/. Yes, the locals always get better deals ;-). I used ov-fiets in the past, it's very convenient and quick indeed to get a bike at a train station where you arrive anyway elsewhere in the country. You're right it's not real bike sharing (for tourists). Many Antwerp locals and people commuting into town with public transport also use it. It's huge!
My girlfriend and I switched to folding bikes for the every day commute. Living in Rotterdam, working in Utrecht. Bike parking is a bit of a bottle neck in the travel with normal bikes. Some folding bikes are really amazing, worth the high price, even for second hand ones :-). Cheers! Enjoy Antwerp in the future, bike is the best way to get around any European town even if infrastructure is terrible when you're used to NL.
Another nice video, keep it up. Greetings from Argentina.
what also is something to consider is that its often faster to go by bike then car from one side to the other in a city
Je zou eens in de omgeving van Bunschoten Spakenburg en Eemdijk, naar Nijkerk of Amersfoort gaan fietsen. Dít is een hele mooie omgeving met een nieuw aangelegde fietspad langs de mooiste plekjes.
I love your vids, keep up the good work and happy New Year. Question, is the gemeente responsible for the cleaning of a cycleway even if the cycleway is on a N road that goes through a village? Thanks JD.
As far as I know, yes. I don't think special rules apply.
Это уже не просто Нидерланды, а Великонидерланды! Молодцы голландцы.
A great year! Looking forward to something more than a token gesture being adopted where I live
Een warm uiteinde & heerlijk 2019!
Coś pięknego,pozdrawiam
I so admire the cycling networks of the Netherlands and Europe in general. I dream of where I live having cycling and walking facilities that your nation has provided. The U.K. is decades behind and are only playing at trying to make changes.
I have been there it’s a beautiful country 🇳🇱🤗😘
I luv these videos. They inspiring me to ride to work (rain or shine) instead of taking my car. I may not get to Denmark, so I'll bring Denmark here to Southern CA. Thank you for the videos! :0)
Good job, keep on cycling !! But this is the Netherlands, not Denmark ;-)
You should revisit London next year if you have time, the cycling facilities are getting better at a pretty fast rate (but still a long way to go)
Inspire me!
Thank You!
Went to Malmö and survived?
Nice content, congrats for your channel! Could u give us a review about lights used at Holland.... Thanks a lot
Good job sir! Thank you.
Very disciplined cyclists , love it 👍 i want to ride here 😀😀 🚴🏼🚴🏼🚴🏼🚴🏼
Wonderful vıdeo
Good content!
brilliant
Dit is een van je beste video's ooit:)
Fiets is goedkoop en pragmatisch.. Bikes are cheap and pragmatic
Looking forward to more videos.
Question: For visitors coming to NL to experience your cycling network, would there be a particular city or region you would recommend?
No, the cities are almost all good.
@@BicycleDutch Wife and I have already agreed on it. Likely spring/summer 2020. Can't wait.
I advise in cities and other crowded places when parking your bike to fasten it with a chain to fixed points. Because bikes are used so much unfortenately it is the most stolen object in the Netherlands.
There's only 1 city you need to avoid if you come for cycling, and that's Amsterdam.
@@thomasabcd2447 Haha. It's hard for me to complain about visitors as I was one too, but when we visited Amsterdam, there were way too many of us. I'll choose other cities for our future visits.
Great job! really. Now, I'm off to face my dire reality. A 20 minute drive with the bike in the back of my car so I can ride to go nowhere. Just to keep the wheels spinning. The US is the worst place to ride a bike.
2:39 Can anyone tell me the name of the bridge again?
Sure, that's Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, Australia.
5:56 I need to know what that is! Anyone???
That's a velomobile.
@@BicycleDutch Thank you!
I so need to move
love to be riding on these bike path with a E-BIKE wow less Laws to go by not like USA to many laws and where you can drive your bikes and how fast you can go . on your bikes or E-BIKES shame full laws here .
3:20 "that people of all ages and backgrounds cycle"... notice the middle finger in relation to all backgrounds :)
You should notice that its his index finger mate ^^
no doubt neatherlands is leading.