I really appreciate seeing the difference ideas in “neighborhood building” here and how over time, the trend is to make more compact properties with smaller streets (the play street / woonerf concept)- ironically my neighborhood as a boy in St Louis Missouri USA was build in 1920 and looks like this, with old brick homes and a park in the middle. We used to build like this in the US and the trend has come full circle but I really envy those living in the Randstad right now
I am not trying to make fun of it because i think the dutch never had the same 'dreams' and more important space to even consider what i think might be part of the american dream. Going out west, starting your own little ranch with lots of horse(power)s in the driveway. Transport and esp. the car allowed people to create new communities or even small groups of 'ranches' to spread out and this was kind of put in laws by car companies who like the idea. Even if the dutch would have had that same impuls in the 1950's after the war it simply could not happen in our country you would always end up with clusters of homes so close that not just a car but also a bicycle would stay a option. There is only so many ways to put 17M people in a block of about 100x150 miles. And you can even see that in the area i bikes no concept of 'my own little ranch' where the home is in the middle and there is a garden all around of good size a small or big driveways for the modern horses. Maybe its just me but it kind of makes sense that indeed from the 1920's design that where designed so much would be at walking distance to now car distance because you could we simply didn't even had that option the best we could do is to extend to bicycle distance hehe
I want to thank you very much for making a reaction commentary about the video I created for you. I am just sitting down to start watching it. As I am commenting here now I have only seen the first minute of your video. It seems to be still being rendered by RUclips process due to it being just uploaded 10 minutes ago. To give you some information on the video I created for you, The bicycle ride was a little over one hour of a ride on the electric bike and my average speed was 16 miles per hour or 29 km per hour. The weather or temperature was about 45 degrees or 13 celsius. The distance of the ride in the video one way was 13 miles or 20 km. The entire bike path is about 22 miles into downtown Charlotte North Carolina. I hope this is useful to you. I will get better about speaking in the video with giving information and details of the area and the ride itself. It was a cold day I made this video for you and it was a bit hard to speak while riding the bike so I forgot some things to mention in the video while narrating. So please forgive me. Also may I ask your first name so I know how to address you?
It should be fully ready in 4k60p i checked maybe its still being copied all over the world to youtube servers but check your youtube setting if it didn't jump back to 720 or something. My name is Daniel but i left a comment on your video with that info and a link to my other channel. I think the things you talked made way more sense than most of my videos and i learned about a new president and had to google him never heard of him to be fair.
@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko Yes you are correct the video quality now a couple of hours later is at full quality of 4K 60fps I am sure as you said was do to it propagating through out the servers around the world or it being processed through RUclipss uploading processes in different levels of quality. It is the same for me here first it uploads in low quality 480 quality then up to 1080p then to 4k which for me is about 2 to 4 hours after uploading is completed. The president I showed in the video and spoke about was one of our leading presidents as he was the one that expanded the largest amount of land gains for our country out of all the presidents we have had. So he is well known in historian circles but not so much in our school systems or with the main public I believe. I did not see your other comment on my video with your name so I am sorry for missing this. I will be sure to look for it. My name is Rafael.
@@RViscara Yeah i always wait until all youtube transcoding is done (so when 4k60p is available) before i make them public thats why i was little shocked i assume it was more the copy between youtube servers that took a few more minutes. Based on some of your videos and bicycle brands when you talked about santa cruz i want to point out the company from the yellow bakfiets brand (urban arrow) also owns them. Its called Pon and is dutch they are the biggest bicycle brand(s) in the world. Just ran into a youtube about it : ruclips.net/video/--Dx9HVcQWs/видео.html so i don't have to explain it all but even he is missing large parts of what pon does and did. Figured you would like to see that since they do plan to go big in the states and focus more on just riding bicycles instead of mostly for sports. They own many brands already but we mostly know them from their car work they for example came up and designed part of the first volkswagen-van the Ultimate california Hippy van...
@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko I have heard of this big umbrella company of many American bicycle brands. I am very happy they are going to promote cycling as a whole not just sport racing or road type bicycles. I would love to see more bakfiets on the streets. I am starting to see the bakfiets here in the states here and there and I have a big smile when I see them with kinderen riding in them. I even take my niece out for rides on the back of my bicycle so she is exposed to the idea of riding bikes. She loves riding in our neighborhood to see the Christmas lights or riding short rides on the greenway. I really hope my and other peoples videos help promote this idea of cycling for transportation and pleasure. I truly believe in this value that the Dutch have shown me when I lived in the Netherlands.
thank you for the reverse sub. my other channel is on camera gear this is just me riding around like most dutch people do. I like norway been there a few times already.
I have now watched your entire video sorry for the delay as today is American football Super Bowl day so I was busy watching this sporting event. Your comments on this video are so perfectly said about things such as Dutch vs American ways and reasons they are different but still need to be improved in America. Also your points about the challenges America faces with the huge country America is in size compared to the Netherlands. This presents some problems to achieve the same goals as the Dutch have. That said it is no excuse for us Americans not to make an effort to do what the Dutch are doing. The way you speak about some Dutch can be arrogant about their country is a bit true but in the same way I understand why they can be this way as they are proud as you put it. It is also true that suburbs or what we call subdivisions of homes away from cities and factories is a problem created by zoning laws from 40 years ago when it was the way things were done like building new highways to connect workers to the work place by only one means which is the car. This has been a disaster for us as it was something pushed by car companies and oil companies in the name of profit and money. Now if every would have to cycle to work it is more like 50 to 60 kilometers to go to work in most cases not all but in many cases. Also as Americans we believe in owning big homes with big garages and yards in order to have that we have pushed further and further into the countryside or further from work places. It’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken from. How do we do this? It’s by showing people a different way of thinking. This is why videos like yours and a few others is so important to show and create to see another way that is good for all including cars and public transport not just this view of making it better for bicycles only. It’s has to be a good balance. We all learn from one another and this is why I commend you for creating your videos and sharing your views and opinions. Also I like that you stoped at the corner house @15:59 as I did in my video. I learned to enjoy the open windows as people would wave to me as I road my bicycle by their homes and they seen me go by them day after day. Even seeing the same cat in the window laying in the warm sun was such a pleasure to see. I had a neighbor with a big dog who would wait for me to come home from work and wait in the window and bark as I went by the owner would come out with the dog to greet me and have some small talk while I gave her dog a treat or Snopje. It was such a joy to experience this sort of way of life. I miss this in America. Thank you Mijn Vriend.
Indeed i loved the StrongTowns video and Not just Bike videos around these topics. Still makes me wonder if not only the different direction the dutch took in the 1970's but also that whatever we did we could never be not close ... there simply is not that much room it would always ended up being more connectable you can only cramp 17+M people in a 100mile by 160mile area in so many ways :)
Leuk filmpje, zien we ook hoe de buitenwijken van Utrecht eruit zien...heel divers. In je video laat je horen wat het onge filterde geluid van de DJI mic is..ja vreselijk en dat heb ik ook met de interne mic's van de gopro..vandaar de externe Nikon mic die ik om mijn hals draag vastgespeld op m'n jas. Het vreselijke geluid wordt grotendeels verorzaakt door alle geluiden die door het frame van de fiets in de mic terecht komen (kontakt geluiden) en dat is eigenlijk niet op te lossen. En filteren veroorzaakt weer andere onnatuurlijke geluiden die ik ook niet om aantehoren vind.... gr.
Dit is een externe mic, Het is een mic2 (dji) met een externe rode micro maar heb meerdere getest. Het signaal gaat wireless naar de action4. Ik ga nog een keer proberen op het lichaam maar vooral in de wind is dat ook best en gedoe. Heb een tijdje op mijn acherhoofd gedaan (met een petje zeg maar). De snelheid die ik fiets is een beetje het probleem ga vaak 25km/uur en dan heb je veel wind geluid. ik zoek verder ....
Well i tried to find it out. Yes Utrecht has and will grow a lot its expected that between 2021 and 2035 about 95.000 people will be added in some way. But i suspect you more noticed the biggest building area in the netherlands of the past decade and that is the area we where bicycling from and in (leidscherijn and areas attached to it). Not sure when you visited but the last decade it was crazy partly because some of the building got delayed because it took longer to put the wide hightway (A2) below ground that part of this area is build on/around. I have some picures of when we had like 14-16 building cranes around my home something that i personally only have seen in Berlin when they after the rejoining of east and west.
No its a 5km path and between the rows of trees below ground are 2 massive pipelines taking water from a local river (lek) and taking it to our dunes at the coastline (50km) to be filtered and then being used in amsterdam as drinking water. If something goes wrong they need to be able to access these pipelines so they are not allowed to build anyting on top. The result is a 5km+ arrow like bicycle path in a big city .... Hope this helps.
I really appreciate seeing the difference ideas in “neighborhood building” here and how over time, the trend is to make more compact properties with smaller streets (the play street / woonerf concept)- ironically my neighborhood as a boy in St Louis Missouri USA was build in 1920 and looks like this, with old brick homes and a park in the middle.
We used to build like this in the US and the trend has come full circle but I really envy those living in the Randstad right now
I am not trying to make fun of it because i think the dutch never had the same 'dreams' and more important space to even consider what i think might be part of the american dream. Going out west, starting your own little ranch with lots of horse(power)s in the driveway. Transport and esp. the car allowed people to create new communities or even small groups of 'ranches' to spread out and this was kind of put in laws by car companies who like the idea. Even if the dutch would have had that same impuls in the 1950's after the war it simply could not happen in our country you would always end up with clusters of homes so close that not just a car but also a bicycle would stay a option. There is only so many ways to put 17M people in a block of about 100x150 miles. And you can even see that in the area i bikes no concept of 'my own little ranch' where the home is in the middle and there is a garden all around of good size a small or big driveways for the modern horses. Maybe its just me but it kind of makes sense that indeed from the 1920's design that where designed so much would be at walking distance to now car distance because you could we simply didn't even had that option the best we could do is to extend to bicycle distance hehe
I want to thank you very much for making a reaction commentary about the video I created for you. I am just sitting down to start watching it. As I am commenting here now I have only seen the first minute of your video. It seems to be still being rendered by RUclips process due to it being just uploaded 10 minutes ago. To give you some information on the video I created for you, The bicycle ride was a little over one hour of a ride on the electric bike and my average speed was 16 miles per hour or 29 km per hour. The weather or temperature was about 45 degrees or 13 celsius. The distance of the ride in the video one way was 13 miles or 20 km. The entire bike path is about 22 miles into downtown Charlotte North Carolina. I hope this is useful to you. I will get better about speaking in the video with giving information and details of the area and the ride itself. It was a cold day I made this video for you and it was a bit hard to speak while riding the bike so I forgot some things to mention in the video while narrating. So please forgive me. Also may I ask your first name so I know how to address you?
It should be fully ready in 4k60p i checked maybe its still being copied all over the world to youtube servers but check your youtube setting if it didn't jump back to 720 or something. My name is Daniel but i left a comment on your video with that info and a link to my other channel. I think the things you talked made way more sense than most of my videos and i learned about a new president and had to google him never heard of him to be fair.
@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko Yes you are correct the video quality now a couple of hours later is at full quality of 4K 60fps I am sure as you said was do to it propagating through out the servers around the world or it being processed through RUclipss uploading processes in different levels of quality. It is the same for me here first it uploads in low quality 480 quality then up to 1080p then to 4k which for me is about 2 to 4 hours after uploading is completed. The president I showed in the video and spoke about was one of our leading presidents as he was the one that expanded the largest amount of land gains for our country out of all the presidents we have had. So he is well known in historian circles but not so much in our school systems or with the main public I believe. I did not see your other comment on my video with your name so I am sorry for missing this. I will be sure to look for it. My name is Rafael.
@@RViscara Yeah i always wait until all youtube transcoding is done (so when 4k60p is available) before i make them public thats why i was little shocked i assume it was more the copy between youtube servers that took a few more minutes. Based on some of your videos and bicycle brands when you talked about santa cruz i want to point out the company from the yellow bakfiets brand (urban arrow) also owns them. Its called Pon and is dutch they are the biggest bicycle brand(s) in the world. Just ran into a youtube about it : ruclips.net/video/--Dx9HVcQWs/видео.html so i don't have to explain it all but even he is missing large parts of what pon does and did. Figured you would like to see that since they do plan to go big in the states and focus more on just riding bicycles instead of mostly for sports. They own many brands already but we mostly know them from their car work they for example came up and designed part of the first volkswagen-van the Ultimate california Hippy van...
@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko I have heard of this big umbrella company of many American bicycle brands. I am very happy they are going to promote cycling as a whole not just sport racing or road type bicycles. I would love to see more bakfiets on the streets. I am starting to see the bakfiets here in the states here and there and I have a big smile when I see them with kinderen riding in them. I even take my niece out for rides on the back of my bicycle so she is exposed to the idea of riding bikes. She loves riding in our neighborhood to see the Christmas lights or riding short rides on the greenway. I really hope my and other peoples videos help promote this idea of cycling for transportation and pleasure. I truly believe in this value that the Dutch have shown me when I lived in the Netherlands.
What a nice ride, you got a new subscriber from Norway
thank you for the reverse sub. my other channel is on camera gear this is just me riding around like most dutch people do. I like norway been there a few times already.
I have now watched your entire video sorry for the delay as today is American football Super Bowl day so I was busy watching this sporting event. Your comments on this video are so perfectly said about things such as Dutch vs American ways and reasons they are different but still need to be improved in America. Also your points about the challenges America faces with the huge country America is in size compared to the Netherlands. This presents some problems to achieve the same goals as the Dutch have. That said it is no excuse for us Americans not to make an effort to do what the Dutch are doing. The way you speak about some Dutch can be arrogant about their country is a bit true but in the same way I understand why they can be this way as they are proud as you put it. It is also true that suburbs or what we call subdivisions of homes away from cities and factories is a problem created by zoning laws from 40 years ago when it was the way things were done like building new highways to connect workers to the work place by only one means which is the car. This has been a disaster for us as it was something pushed by car companies and oil companies in the name of profit and money. Now if every would have to cycle to work it is more like 50 to 60 kilometers to go to work in most cases not all but in many cases. Also as Americans we believe in owning big homes with big garages and yards in order to have that we have pushed further and further into the countryside or further from work places. It’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken from. How do we do this? It’s by showing people a different way of thinking. This is why videos like yours and a few others is so important to show and create to see another way that is good for all including cars and public transport not just this view of making it better for bicycles only. It’s has to be a good balance. We all learn from one another and this is why I commend you for creating your videos and sharing your views and opinions. Also I like that you stoped at the corner house @15:59 as I did in my video. I learned to enjoy the open windows as people would wave to me as I road my bicycle by their homes and they seen me go by them day after day. Even seeing the same cat in the window laying in the warm sun was such a pleasure to see. I had a neighbor with a big dog who would wait for me to come home from work and wait in the window and bark as I went by the owner would come out with the dog to greet me and have some small talk while I gave her dog a treat or Snopje. It was such a joy to experience this sort of way of life. I miss this in America. Thank you Mijn Vriend.
Indeed i loved the StrongTowns video and Not just Bike videos around these topics. Still makes me wonder if not only the different direction the dutch took in the 1970's but also that whatever we did we could never be not close ... there simply is not that much room it would always ended up being more connectable you can only cramp 17+M people in a 100mile by 160mile area in so many ways :)
@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko all so very true my friend
Leuk filmpje, zien we ook hoe de buitenwijken van Utrecht eruit zien...heel divers. In je video laat je horen wat het onge filterde geluid van de DJI mic is..ja vreselijk en dat heb ik ook met de interne mic's van de gopro..vandaar de externe Nikon mic die ik om mijn hals draag vastgespeld op m'n jas. Het vreselijke geluid wordt grotendeels verorzaakt door alle geluiden die door het frame van de fiets in de mic terecht komen (kontakt geluiden) en dat is eigenlijk niet op te lossen. En filteren veroorzaakt weer andere onnatuurlijke geluiden die ik ook niet om aantehoren vind.... gr.
Dit is een externe mic, Het is een mic2 (dji) met een externe rode micro maar heb meerdere getest. Het signaal gaat wireless naar de action4. Ik ga nog een keer proberen op het lichaam maar vooral in de wind is dat ook best en gedoe. Heb een tijdje op mijn acherhoofd gedaan (met een petje zeg maar). De snelheid die ik fiets is een beetje het probleem ga vaak 25km/uur en dan heb je veel wind geluid. ik zoek verder ....
Is Utrecht the fastest growing town in the The Netherlands?
I saw more buildings under construction than any other town I visited.
Well i tried to find it out. Yes Utrecht has and will grow a lot its expected that between 2021 and 2035 about 95.000 people will be added in some way. But i suspect you more noticed the biggest building area in the netherlands of the past decade and that is the area we where bicycling from and in (leidscherijn and areas attached to it). Not sure when you visited but the last decade it was crazy partly because some of the building got delayed because it took longer to put the wide hightway (A2) below ground that part of this area is build on/around. I have some picures of when we had like 14-16 building cranes around my home something that i personally only have seen in Berlin when they after the rejoining of east and west.
The section in the beginning, was there originally a road between those two rows of trees?
No its a 5km path and between the rows of trees below ground are 2 massive pipelines taking water from a local river (lek) and taking it to our dunes at the coastline (50km) to be filtered and then being used in amsterdam as drinking water. If something goes wrong they need to be able to access these pipelines so they are not allowed to build anyting on top. The result is a 5km+ arrow like bicycle path in a big city .... Hope this helps.