Ride from Tilburg (NL) to Turnhout (B)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- [Ep. 961] Cycling on the former railway from Tilburg in the Netherlands to Turnhout in Belgium. The line was called Bels Lijntje (Belgian Line) because also the part in the Netherlands was owned by a Belgian railway company. The line was converted to a cycle way in the early 1990s. The ride is 32.4km long. More information in the blog post: bicycledutch.w... There is also a sped-up version: • (Fast) Ride Tilburg (N...
I grew up in Tilburg and just found the Bicycle Dutch rides. The Tilburg rides used to be my stomping grounds and 50 years later it's a real joy to be able to do these rides at home. Can't tell you how much I enjoy them.
I always look forward to your rides, Mark.
I play it on my side monitor and allow the sights and sounds of the Nederlands to remind me of my cycling vacation last year.
Hi Mark. Good to see that you've recovered enough to be able to do longer rides once again. I bet you missed being able to do them. Glad to see you back in good health.
Bedankt BicycleDutch voor je video ' s!
Ik ben nog nooit in Nederland geweest, maar dankzij jullie Weet ik nu dat het het mooiste, meest comfortabele land ter wereld is.
Dank je wel, Mark!
Very familiar to me. My hometown.
I would have taken a slightly different route at the start. After the NS train station, go right and go left an drive in the direction of University train station, Wandelbos and Warande. At the end of Warande go left and you’re on the original route of the railway track Bels Lijntje. You would have missed a lot of traffic lights that way and a lot less car noise.
I haven’t been further than Baarle Nassau because I always go in the direction of Poppel there. Or earlier from Alphen in the direction of Nieuwkerk.
Vierwindenlaan en Dongepad; daar heeft de trein nooit gereden. Aan het eind van het Roerpad kom je op de originele route.
Jazeker heeft hij wel op de Vierwindenlaan en het Dongepad gereden, vóór 1958, toen werd de lijn pas naar het westen opgeschoven. Ten zuiden van de A58, bij de Oude Rielsebaan, vertakte de nieuwe route pas vanaf de oude.
@@BicycleDutch je hebt gelijk, ik ging uit van het nieuwste tracé.
Het is wel mooier en rustiger fietsen.
Damn, Baarle-Hertog is so complicated with all those borders! Makes planning the trash routes a nightmare.
Thanks for sharing Bels Lijntje. We will be in Tillburg in July. We will definitely ride the Bels Lijntje.
👍👍 Interesting riding in and out of the historical enclaves.
Bedankt Mark! Another terrific ride today on the rollers. Watching your videos while exercising lets the imagination run and makes the whole experience fun. 'Looking forward to being on the bike outside but we still need a somewhat warmer temperature, some sunshine and maybe somewhat less rain than we're getting now.
Ik ben hier heel blij mee. Zelf haal ik Turnhout niet meer vanuit Tilburg. Nu kan ik toch het hele stuk rijden, maar dan thuis. Ik hoef immers niet meer terug te fietsen. Heerlijk.
What a hell dry chain sound. :)
Great route. And glad to see your restore.
Klein detail. De afkorting van Belgie is BE zoals vastgelegd in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (lees met een Jean Luc Picard stem)
"... which has replaced the previous one consisting one-letter codes. They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974."
American roads are embarrassing after watching this.
The Dutch use these 10 tricks to improve their lives, number 7 will suprise you!
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Very enjoyable scenic ride! Thanks you the upload. Interesting about the enclaves. Potentially someone could have their livingroom in one country and their kitchen in another (for example). Could make taxes, voting, etc complicated. Smart people have probably worked that out.
It goes by which country the front door is in.
I am quite sure there was a pub somewhere with a country border in the middle.
Buy your Beer in X, it's 15% taxes cheaper!
@@steemlenn8797 Belgian cigarettes, Dutch butter, Belgian gasoline, Dutch vegetables, Belgian fireworks...
There was even a bank with only access in the Netherlands and its vault in Belgium, so no tax accountant could inspect it.
A lot of this funny 'stupidity' has been resolved by treaties, and later ofcourse by EU law. Both municipalities share one police station where both nationalities are represented, and where they cooperate to keep an eye on the 'naughty' citizens.
During the Covid lockdown a textile supermarket had to reorganize because rules in both countries did not match up. The border goes through the shop and it has an access in both countries. On a few days the Dutch part had a 'Do not cross' tape to prevent customers to get 'forbidden fruits'. No wonder the citizens have always resisted a solution, which happened in many other places along the border, just to keep their smugglers paradise.
Talking about beer, there is an Abbey on the border, not in Baarle but in Achel, where the monks brew beer and which is accessible from both countries. ruclips.net/video/XdnDFEdmx8I/видео.html
im a bit confused by the junction at 55:45. It has priority for cars, but it uses a continuous sidewalk/fietspad. what gives?
At 56:40 the motorist gave way to the cyclist even though he (the motorist) had right of way. This would hardly ever happen in the UK.
Well spotted. The priority arrangement is a bit strange there. Normally a cycleway like this (parallel to a road with priority) *would* have the right of way. That gives drivers a bit of an incentive to let cyclists go first, I think.
Almost all car drivers are cyclists too.
@@palantir135 Exactly.
Why are scooters allowed to ride ok these parts I view them as fuel powers vehicles if they were too many of them itv would spoil the quiet enjoyment and experience of using it?
Wow, your fitness levels are back aren't they Mark?! Thought you did sound a bit tired towards the end there...and I kept wondering if you were staying overnight before returning or if there was a public transport route that took you and your bike home? That station reminded me of St. Pancras in London.
I had to look at a map to discover that crenellated border between the Nederland's and Belgium. An amusing thought occurred to me: if you're coming from Belgium are the enclaves Dutch? ( I hope the subject is not sensitive, I meant the comment in good humour😊 )
Amazing trip, I enjoyed the ride👍💚🚴
I'm fitter than ever. What you perceive as towards the end in this video was not even half way for me. I cycled around a bit in Turnhout, noticed everything was closed due to a Belgian holiday and then cycled the same way back to Tilburg. :-)
@@BicycleDutch oh my goodness! What a lovely day, hope you took a picnic!
There are patches of Dutch territory within the Belgian enclaves, so technically these can be considered Dutch enclaves. And it's not a sensitive subject at all, it is sometimes quite complicated though as the border runs right through houses so imagine your front door being in the Netherlands while your backdoor is in Belgium :)
@@neorejbeck well that's got to feel a bit schizophrenic, how peculiar! One wonders if the houses were built on the boundary or if they just didn't care that they plonked the boundary on a house?! Bizarre, thanks, I learnt something new. 👍
Surely those people come back and cleanup after their horses, right? 😀
Perhaps. In Belgium you are not obligated to clean it up. In the Netherlands it differs per region, but its rarely upheld. Horseshit has been around for ages and I guess people have accepted it.
In cities like London and New York it did was a big problem before the car. People on here like to complain about cars but 1000s of horses on a street per day is a lot of ammonia and other nasty stuff.
Thank goodness for fenders.
My old mum would have been collecting it for her garden!
@@rutgerb But it was swiftly carried away, because nothing is better for the strawberries!
@@steemlenn8797
The great horse manure crisis ruclips.net/video/GmVLo0JeAlQ/видео.html
Wiki:
"The great horse manure crisis of 1894 refers to the idea that the greatest obstacle to urban development at the turn of the century was the difficulty of removing horse manure from the streets
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The name refers to a supposed 1894 publication in The Times, which said "In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure".[3] The reasoning was that more horses are needed to remove the manure, and these horses produce more manure.
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lol the biker at 20:30 sounded like Formula 1 car :D
Nice ride! Does enough people use though?
@@dimrrider9133 cool! What a great piece infrastructure!
In summer it’s quite busy with older people riding there and children riding to school in Tilburg.
do you know hills?
Benny