As a Dutch person, i find this channel very fascinating. To see through the eyes of someone who is used otherwise gives me a new found appreciation of what we have here what we all take for granted and see as 'normal' while in fact it is not. I guess that is why you have more Dutch viewers than any other.
Yes, indeed! But I _used_ to have more Dutch viewers than any other. Since my "Strong Towns" series, Americans are the number one group, by far. The Dutch are #2 though!
as an american, living in the suburb, i wish we have something like this where i live in Virginia. I was young and dumb when i moved to the suburb and didn't really think through all the pros and cons...i hope to move to somewhere, where i can bike around. cheers and God bless.
I find the infrastructure severely lacking !!! 1) There are far too few manhole covers built into the cycling path, the few I have seen are far too small and positioned so that they can be avoided. Also many were not in a bad state of disrepair and wouldn't damage the tyres. 2) Too few hard-edged raised areas to force cyclists to stop and walk or break the spokes of their wheels. Far too many transitions are smooth and easy to take. Also note that not a single cycle crossing was matched with a sewer grating ! 3) There wasn't a single sharp 90° lined with a hard barrier and far too few lines crossing other traffic. 4) Not a single bent or damaged sign covering 25% or more of the cycle path. 5) Far too many dedicated cycling paths and far too few paths simply marked by white lines on busy main roads. 6) Far too many dedicated two-way paths rather than segregating them on either side of the road. 7) Not a single path has been integrated to run over bus stops and public transport lanes. How can you treat cyclists as third class citizens for having the gall to dare share the road with the almighty car with this kind of road infrastructure ???
Rather, the video recorded on a bike shows several ways of land-bound transport, filmed from one bike that remains hidden from sight, but rattles like a Brompton folding bike.
@@WingsTM because that makes cycling very uncomfortable if it is very hot. It can hurt your eyes if you have the sun in front of you the whole ride. But other times it can be pleasant if there is at least a small breeze to cool you down while you ride.
I just binge watched your whole channel and I absolutely love your videos and your natural and kind personality. I only lived in the USA for a couple of months and I hated those car-centric streets. It is unimaginable to me growing up in the suburban car hell. Your videos reminded me again of how lucky I am to live in Germany and Europe in general. Thank you and please keep on making videos about Amsterdam and not just bikes
Hello from Paris. Such a dream for us in France. This is what a civilized transport infrastructure looks like. And you are always improving it. When I cycle to my local Ikea, I have to carefully study the itinerary beforehand, and yet the trip is full of obstacles and danger (cycle path only 20% of the way) and there is not even a parking for bicycles.
American bicycle ride: "god damn traffic lights... Aaa HEY! watch where you drive! *bonk* OW CRAP! finally I can go!.. oh wait an other traffic light Dutch bicycle ride: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
It’s ridiculous how long you have to wait at 8:00 to 10:30, two and a half minutes waiting for a traffic light, sorry in this case a stoplight. You should write the municipality of Amsterdam or Ouder-Amstel (don’t know if it was in Amsterdam ZO of Duivendrecht). You had to wait a whole traffic light cycle, but bikes could have gone halfway through the traffic light cycle. Then it would be about a minute to a minute and a half, still long, but doable.
I thought of that too. But I'm from Germany and my municipality would laugh at this complain, I guess we have deeper problems concerning bike infrastructure
(I haven't ridden there for some three years now.) Yes, there are some traffic lights with non-Amsterdam-like long waiting times for slow traffic. Wasn't this the Spaklerweg crossing the Van der Madeweg? Would be Duivendrecht (Ouder-Amstel). That crossroads does have quite some dispersing lorry traffic at times, and I seem to remember that cyclists seem to have green every alternate light cycle. However, I also remember waiting long at the crossroads quite near the start, right after the Berlagebrug. I would cross that parallel to the river Amstel. Sidebar: the first few minutes show places that Rembrandt has often sketched. Quite rural until roughly 1900. And even I (born 1956) remember meadows with cows during most of this trip (and the industrial site on our right, roughly up to that irritating traffic light). Traveling by train from Amsterdam Amstel station to Utrecht felt like crossing a green desert, passing the rural stations of Abcoude, Breukelen and rush-hours only Maarssen before re-entering civilization with the Demka steel works.
I'm a passionate cyclist, done multiple bikepacking trips to Emmen, Groningen and cities between. I really love your videos. keep on with the good content. maybe I'll see you one day on one of my next trips :)
But think how much more coffee you have to drink in the morning to compensate for the lack of adrenaline since no cars almost hit you! But in all seriousness, I wish the US would get on board with this infrastructure, not the stupid painted lanes. I rode every day to work in Boston, almost got hit on a daily basis. All my coworkers were always surprised when I said I preferred riding downtown vs further out of the city -- but with how much faster everyone drives outside of the city it's truly terrifying(as you've highlighted in several of your videos). Are "right hooks" ever an issue in the Netherlands? Ie, when a car turns right and has to cross over a bike lane going straight? These are consistently an issue for me in the US and have resulted in more than one window knocking to let the driver know I was next to them. Keep up the good work, I love seeing how terrible the US is at things :P
Ian Saucy no they are not. Cars learn to stop for bicycles going straight. There are also signs indicating that there is a bike path next to you and telling you've to stop for them. source I'm dutch
Yeah, we don't really have a problem with right-hooks, no. But the intersections are designed very differently here, so that cars intersect with the bicycle path at a nearly 90 degree angle, improving sight-lines, and making right-hooks much less common. Plus people are very used to looking for bicycles when they drive, especially since most people cycle themselves sometimes! Here is the best video I've ever found about the junctions in the Netherlands, by BicycleDutch: ua-cam.com/video/XpQMgbDJPok/v-deo.html
One of the basic Dutch traffic rules/laws has almost always been: straight-through traffic (traffic following the road it's on) has right of way... included even pedestrians walking down a street. Cars have to yield when they want to turn into a side street, crossing the path of a pedestrian on his way down the same road said car is about to leave...
If you ever feel like seeing some 'bad' cycling infrastructure close to Amsterdam, try cycling to Muiden from the east side of Amsterdam. There's this two way yet very narrow lane with sheeps sleeping on the asphalt. You do get a very nice view of the IJsselmeer, which sort of makes up for it.
20 minute bike ride in amsterdam: I rode through the suburbs and made it to the ikea 20 minute bikeride in america: I've escaped my neighborhood and made it to a QuikTrip.
I moved to The Netherlands a year ago, (in Bijlmermeer) I have to say it is also a pro uniq to this neighborhood, I commute to the center and I also bike a lot around got me kinda frustrated because here I am used to that you as a biker gets the most priority and all bike path are asphalt (not pavement) . In case someone doesn't know this area has all the roads elevated but such a way that you don't even see it, in general you don't get in contact with automobiles and traffic.
I am in exchange in south korea for halve a year. Lovely to be here not as much restrictions with corona. But i miss my bike. I am so restricted with public transport.
Cycling is one of the best ways of social distancing for short-medium trips. 0-20km trips you can do on bikes without being locked up with others in small spaces.
At IKEA just enter with the cars. At 21:17 you see the yellow entrance on the left of the building. Just go straight after going in and you’re at the entrance. Zuid-Oost in general has great bike lanes
Yeah, that's good advice, and that's the way I came out when I left. This IKEA could really use some better signage for cyclists. The Groningen IKEA has cycling signs and even a cycling path on the property!
Yes, there are a few better ways to go than this, but I took this route because I had never taken it before, and because it would make a more interesting video (I wanted some video of the protected intersections, for example).
Cycling to the Utrecht Ikea Is very easy too, although I'm not yet used to the slow cycling style like the Dutch. I'm used to cycling through North Wales
Manually. 😬 I don't recommend it. I took an image of openstreetmaps for the area, drew a line of my route in my video editing program (Davinci Resolve/Fusion), and key-framed it to the intersections that I stopped at. It looks good, but it takes way too long to get it right.
Looks pretty smooth. One thing though, at 8 minutes in the video, you stop for 2 minutes and 40 seconds waiting for the light to tell you you can go. I personally find that pedestrians or cyclist should NEVER have to wait more than 45 seconds, at the very most. There's a simple reason for that : everyone is a pedestrian at some point, not everyone drives a car (and more importantly, not everyone can afford a car), as you point out in many of your videos. Also, even in Vancouver in Canada I don't think I've ever had to wait more than a minute top before I could cross, even in busy stroads.
Usually when crossing main car arteries such as at 8 minutes the traffic light cycle is longer because the movement of traffic is more complex. Waiting times get less when streets get smaller and less complex. It's a small price to pay considering the benefits of our infrastructure.
Yeah they should implement more pedestrian and bike sensors at that intersection, there were a couple of places I think it would have been safe to cross but the lights didnt reflect that. Better safe than sorry but I'm sure it has room for a little more efficiency in its design
Fun fact: IKEA Delft is where all the money from all over the world comes to to save itself from taxes (Netherlands, just like Ireland, is a tax haven). Everyone thinks IKEA is owned by Sweden - well, Ingka is, but all the ingka money goes into the Netherlands to Inter IKEA Systems B.V., the "copyright holder" of IKEA as a brand and every single product it makes. They do the same tax dodging as every other transnational corporation. For example Apple does it in Ireland.
Thank you for this! Love the overall presentation of your videos. No love for the Johan Cruyff Arena around 14:00 mark. Guess if it was called the Wayne Gretzky Arena you would be all over it :). You still able to follow Hockey living outside of Canada for so long now or just not possible? Stay safe and looking forward to your next videos!
Something interesting to me watching this video (from Ottawa, Canada): when overtaking someone (pedestrian or cyclist) on your bike, is it just not part of the culture to ring your bell to alert them that you are passing? That's a pretty big deal here, people get pissy if you don't.
I would say the rule is to ring your bell only when there is not enough space to savely overtake someone. So only when there is a clear need to alert the other person(s). But mostly no
The Berlagebrug, where the video starts, was the place where the Canadians entered the city in the liberation from the Germans. See some historical photos here: www.zuidelijkewandelweg.nl/archief/bevrijding/index.htm
It strikes me with videos like these that actually people who walk with wheels do end up going quite spritely. Walking with wheels doesn’t leave you being a slowed person.
Nice footage! Basically my commute to work except I also have to dodge tourists in the center of town 😭. What equipment do you use to record? Is it a gopro?
This was filmed with a GoPro HERO 7 attached to the frame of the bakfiets. I hate riding through the centre, so when I had to commute to Noord I took the metro. 😉
Can you make a video about swapfiets? It is getting quite popular in Berlin. What do dutch people think about the provider? By the way, I really enjoyed your videos :).
Amazing infrastructure, I wish we had that in Montreal. At around 2:00, you seem to be in large car-free space that look like an office park, I was wondering how they do delivery and how people with reduced mobility navigate there?
In the Netherlands, people reduced mobility use special bicycles, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, or specialized vehicles like the Canta. They are not forced to have to drive cars everywhere, like they are in North America. It is a MUCH better environment for people with reduced mobility here. Deliveries are via an entrance on the other side of the building, or the trucks use this same path.
To your left, at the beginning, there's my favorite FEBO on the other side of the Vrijheidslaan - but you know that already. I mean about the FEBO not that it's my favorite. I had to scroll to the end to see if you were riding a bakfiets - but I couldn't see.
Hey you should come over to Eindhoven and cycle to IKEA. It’s much better honestly. Our train station area sucks a lot but the rest of the way is really nice
Why would you go the Ikea on a bicycle? You don't go that far out of the city to buy 6 glasses or or 1 table cloth. I presume, but I might be wrong, to buy a bed, or a desk, or a couch, or any other kind of cheap but smartly packed furniture. So I would think you go by car. Don't take this as criticism, I am just wondering.
Not everybody owns a car. It's a strange idea to not own a car in places like the US, but here in the Netherlands, it's not all that uncommon. IKEA also does deliveries, so when you want to buy a new bed, or desk, or couch, you can go there by bike, find what you want, test it for comfort and have it delivered at an agreed-upon time.
Cool! I'm so miss about those Dutch bike paths... I lived at Hague just for a three months. Unfortunately, in my (post USSR) country we have only cracked asphalt and broken sidewalks, and I can ride only on hardtail, wich I bought in Hague's Decathlon store.
If you like this kind of content, check out my new channel, NJB Live, where I livestream bike rides: ua-cam.com/channels/9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw.html Things that you might find interesting (I did): 1:56 I love this cycle path. It's bicycles only and diagonal, and just .. nice 2:45 Dutch junction with cycling priority 4:40 Surprisingly crappy crossing, for the Netherlands (not raised) 5:44 Another non-raised crossing 6:15 End of tiled bicycled paths, smooth asphalt begins! 11:03 Double bicycle speed bumps 11:12 Tiles are back :( 11:30 Asphalt is back! No more tiles for the rest of the ride 12:54 & 12:59 I love the way you see the train briefly appear ;) 16:00 Woman cycling with IKEA boxes in a bakfiets 19:43 Uh ... 19:52 Oops 21:28 OK, I'll just yield for a while ... 22:05 End of fietspad / start of IKEA property 22:13 No idea where I'm supposed to cycle to (could use a sign, IKEA!) 22:21 Still no signs for cycle parking 22:35 Nope, still nothing for cycling ಠ_ಠ 22:41 I think it's down here (by memory) 23:11 Bicycle parking (at least it's near the door!) Protected intersections: 0:10 1:23 2:45 (roundabout) 6:15 7:49 11:42 14:29 16:15 17:43 19:37 Traffic lights I had to wait at: 0:18 7:55 HOW LONG IS THIS LIGHT!? (10:33) 11:47 16:19 20:00 Let me know if there's anything interesting I missed!
4:40 not surprising, those square tiles aren't used anymore, when that crossing gets an overhaul it will be different. Even within the Netherlands there is a limit on how much you can spend on infra for cycling. In various places those red tiles are a placeholder. Rather than putting in red asphalt for temporary roads, tiles are used. To me it is the frugal thing to do. 19:43 Ah, those impossible, important and annoying patch jobs. Emergency repair for whatever gas- electric- data- infrastructure is hiding below the road.
So is this to show that cycling to/from/in an industrial zone or wide spread area is totally possible? People won't take this route because it's pretty! We'll need to work on that for sure.
2:27 - 2:40 bicycle carnage around Blooker shows a lack of a decent bicycle parking facilities goo.gl/maps/9gpkXhigyugLeJdv7 5:09 Gerritse flag wants to break free
Hey, I saw someone cycling between Nieuwmarkt and Centraal Station today, twice in the same direction within a short period, and with a professional-looking camera on his bike. And he looked a bit like you; was it you? Can we expect a video of this neighbourhood? P.S. All great videos with intelligent commentary!
@@NotJustBikes Ah, it seems I am bad at stalking, then. Besides, I wouldn't know the difference between a Go Pro device and professional-looking cameras. Looking forward to your next video.
It is. It's near the very edge of the suburbs of Amsterdam. This is an area that was designed only for cars, and then had bicycle paths added at a later time. It's still way too car-centric for the Netherlands, but it does provide hope that other car-centric suburbs in the world could be better than they are today.
I love this series but for this particular route, the video quality would have been more appealing if you took this route in reverse. But, that is life for a bike rider- always riding to work into the sun and returning home into the sun. As for the wind , it worked the same way except for you Americans, be thankful, as when I rode in Holland, no matter which direction I went, the wind was always against me every day. Producer, care to do a show about the Dutch winds?
I biked almost this exact route back when I studied there in 2017! Only difference is I started at Oost-Indisch Huis (where I had a class at the time) and went a little past the IKEA to the IWO Exam Hall. I severely regretted not taking the metro, cause it took me nearly an hour each way with my heavy Batavus Omafiets T_T
Greetings from Singapore 😄 In a tropical climate all that sun would fry us to a crisp (average temp here is 30°C). Could you share your camera attachment setup and the software you use to track the ride (that inset video up left 🤓)? Besides putting the distance of the ride, during long intersection waits you could point the camera towards the intersection so we can study the traffic light sequences... just a suggestion 😅 Cheers and keep up the good work! 👍🏻👍🏻🚲🚲
Nice! I've been to Singapore many, many times, and my brother-in-law used to live there. I think that people would easily cycle in Singapore if it were safer to do so. Whenever it was over 30 degrees in Toronto I would prefer cycling over public transit. Cycling uses 1/3 the energy of walking, but cycling cools you down as you're moving quickly through the air. If people walk somewhere, then it's even easier to cycle, as long as you're not cycling too fast. I did not use any special software for the map inset: it was very manual. I took an image from OpenStreetMaps, drew my route on it in my video editing program (Davinci Resolve/Fusion), and added keyframes for when I stopped at intersections. It's very manual, unfortunately, so I don't think I'll do it often. As for moving the camera, it's fixed to the frame of the bike and on the bakfiets it's over a metre away from where I'm riding, so that's not possible, unfortunatley!
Not Just Bikes ah I see! Yes, Singapore has a long way to go in terms of safety and attitudes. But recently the government announced a fast-tracking of building more cycling paths so that’s a good thing I guess.
8:00 - 10:30 Waiting 2.5 minutes for a traffic light? I hate it when they prioritize a few cars over pedestrians and cyclists. Outrageous. Very un-Dutch. P.s. I am Dutch. 24:30 The approach (car entry) and the bicycle facility (small) is pathetic. IKEA Barendrecht has a decent bicycle parking facility, away from the car parking, and close to the main entrance. Though, oddly enough, it misses about 4 meters of bicycle lane that should have been there crossing the pedestrian walkway towards the bicycle parking.
Yes I thought that waiting that long was very un-Dutch, too, and it's part of the reason I wanted to upload this ride to UA-cam. I felt like something went wrong with it.
@@NotJustBikes Yes... I was screaming at the lights already like I normally also do but then silently :).... and it looked like the lights for the cars went several times from red to green... while the traffic light for the bikes kept on being red...
No, never. I use Google Maps, though their bicycle directions are quite bad in the Netherlands. The best routes are from the Fiestersbond, but their app is not particularly user-friendly. I usually find the best route in the Fietsersbond app, and then use Google Maps while I'm actually cycling.
@@NotJustBikes I have always been very much impressed by Dutch engineering like the big dams and so on. To think that they implement traffic calming on their cycle paths as well just makes me more impressed.
@@explorer914 Here's another example that I ride over almost every week. This is traffic calmed (for bicycles) because there are several schools here: goo.gl/maps/UFGRkSLBSpCCdw3B6
I used to live in the Rivierenbuurt. Obviously I had a bicycle for some local journeys e.g. to the office or the city centre, but I wouldn’t dream of cycling all the way to IKEA. Especially if I intended to actually buy items when I get there. Same goes for groceries. Still would always need and want my beloved car for certain things, especially if it’s raining or transporting large or heavy items. Or just because I love driving. There has to be a role for all modes of transport: public transport, bicycles, and cars, not a demonisation or exclusion of any one mode. ❤️
Seems like the cobblestones create a lot of vibration, which equals fatigue... rider & bicycle. Why not just pave the whole length of the bike lanes, like the streets? Speed control, maybe?🤷♂️
This is a more traditional way of paving cycle paths. It is cheap, needs little foundation and you can easily repair it when there's a need to replace the infrastructure underneath it, or when the peat ground subsides. When they're going to replace these paths, they might just put ashalt on them. Speed control won't be the issue, as the tiles aren't effective in slowing down mopeds. At 11:01 you can see speed controlling bumps that send mopeds flying if they go too fast. If they really want to annoy cyclists, they had better used coarse stone like on these new paths: goo.gl/maps/R2q563tyLq7tJnzu9
@@peterslegers6121 - Ahhh. CHEAP! Got it😂 Didn't realize mopeds were allowed. I would think this would defeat the purpose of a safe, bicycle only lane, though... for the reason you mentioned, the annoyance from motorized vehicles.
I also thought it is better for drainage. The water has a place to go (between the tiles) but mayeb that is just me trying to find a positive reason for the stones. Also when it is done right I prefer the look of the stones over the asphalt. It looks more friendlier.
@@xJonnaax - The appearance would be irrelevant. What works best for the tires & the ride would be ideal. The drainage could've been a possibility, though. Everybody there seems o.k. riding in the rain. Usually cobbles beat the hell out of you, and the bike. Paris Roubaix is one of the most punishing bicycle races in the world because of the cobblestone sections. Much WORSE than here, but still... even these smaller one's would add up over time in a regular commute. You'd pick tires accordingly, though, I guess. Like Roubaix, bigger... low psi.
Are petrol powered scooters a problem in the inner city with air quality and noise requirements? I heard a couple or so years back they were being 'grandfathered' under new regulations from the council (local govt). Is this correct? I cycle in Auckland New Zealand (worse than London Ontario I bet) where bicycles are still a novelty... you have no idea, absolutely no idea what it is to risk your life every time you ride in Auckland, and much of New Zealand for that matter. Arguably the most dangerous country in the OECD bar none. You do have to be a dedicated "cyclist" (that word) in Aotearoa to ride a bicycle. Whenever I think Bike New Zealand, the term 'wild west' comes to mind. There is a small amount of new bicycle infrastructure, but if you come from Holland, you would barely notice it. There are about 5 Km of usable and decent bicycle pathways in the centre of Auckland city, otherwise it's bus lanes, narrow green painted gutters and cars galore. Jealousy is hard to conceal sometimes...
Watching this zen-ass video makes me so happy. Yeah, you *could* have ridden a car. But by riding a bicycle , you have : -Made yourself more fit \ helped your late night sleeping -Killed CO2 contributions that using a car would have put out -Took in more nature while having to pay attention less (Driving is intense) -*Not* paid for gas because of the gas you were *not* using. Yeah a car would have saved you some time, but , heck. I miss biking. Living in England, you aren't allowed to ride them on the sidewalks (insane) , *and* the roads are fucking dangerous. Either covered turns by brushes, 1-car roads with zero pedestrian, nvm car paths or safety, constant bastard rain. I used to love riding my bike in Hungary when I was younger. When I can, I want to get another bike and go use it. Fat bastard sitting at the PC all day most days :-P. Would do good for my health, though at 35 I may be kind of too late. And I need to wait till we move (funnily enough, to the Netherlands!) at some point in the coming decade...
Why can't I bike back with any furniture? Do you really think you can only carry IKEA furniture in a car? Have you never heard of a bakfiets? Anyway, watch my commentary video on this and I explain it.
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As a Dutch person, i find this channel very fascinating. To see through the eyes of someone who is used otherwise gives me a new found appreciation of what we have here what we all take for granted and see as 'normal' while in fact it is not. I guess that is why you have more Dutch viewers than any other.
Yes, indeed! But I _used_ to have more Dutch viewers than any other. Since my "Strong Towns" series, Americans are the number one group, by far. The Dutch are #2 though!
@@NotJustBikes I hope germans are also in the top five, so they get their car brain fixed.
as an american, living in the suburb, i wish we have something like this where i live in Virginia. I was young and dumb when i moved to the suburb and didn't really think through all the pros and cons...i hope to move to somewhere, where i can bike around. cheers and God bless.
@@carlos_caracas they cant as they created the car. But there cities are still better then many American cities
@@carlos_caracas wait, Germans are car brains? I thought Germans own cars but use public transportation.
I find the infrastructure severely lacking !!!
1) There are far too few manhole covers built into the cycling path, the few I have seen are far too small and positioned so that they can be avoided. Also many were not in a bad state of disrepair and wouldn't damage the tyres.
2) Too few hard-edged raised areas to force cyclists to stop and walk or break the spokes of their wheels. Far too many transitions are smooth and easy to take. Also note that not a single cycle crossing was matched with a sewer grating !
3) There wasn't a single sharp 90° lined with a hard barrier and far too few lines crossing other traffic.
4) Not a single bent or damaged sign covering 25% or more of the cycle path.
5) Far too many dedicated cycling paths and far too few paths simply marked by white lines on busy main roads.
6) Far too many dedicated two-way paths rather than segregating them on either side of the road.
7) Not a single path has been integrated to run over bus stops and public transport lanes.
How can you treat cyclists as third class citizens for having the gall to dare share the road with the almighty car with this kind of road infrastructure ???
rotwang2000 and where do you live?
The spelling of the word "tyres" gives it away. He's in the UK (maybe Ireland).
... also the heavy use of sarcasm. 😉
It's not just infrastructure, the culture of drivers going hostile toward cyclists is very lacking as well.
@@eiypo true, but I assumed you guys were all asleep. 😉
No one tried to knock him off his bicycle. There was no vitriolic verbal abuse. Most odd.
I would have never expected that quarantine would make me watch these types of videos.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
same here.. and I'm loving them :D
When a channel called "Not Just Bikes" uploads a 23 minute video of just biking.
Well, it's not called "Not Bikes" 😉
He did show some cars and trains!
Rather, the video recorded on a bike shows several ways of land-bound transport, filmed from one bike that remains hidden from sight, but rattles like a Brompton folding bike.
@@falsemcnuggethope Did you happen to spot Superman too? ;-)
As a Dutch person this video doesn't make me think "What great cycling infrastructure!", instead I find myself thinking; "Ugh, sun..."
The NL hardly gets any sun for 5 months, why in the world would anyone say "ugh" to sun :)
@@WingsTM because that makes cycling very uncomfortable if it is very hot. It can hurt your eyes if you have the sun in front of you the whole ride. But other times it can be pleasant if there is at least a small breeze to cool you down while you ride.
The sun emits deadly radiation. Fear the sun!
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@@CaynitaArt agree, thats why despite my country desperately trying to do the same cycling lane and etc, it cant cuz we live in a tropical country
In America: Takes 30 minutes to drive to Ikea
In the Netherlands: 20 minutes to bike to Ikea
I just binge watched your whole channel and I absolutely love your videos and your natural and kind personality. I only lived in the USA for a couple of months and I hated those car-centric streets. It is unimaginable to me growing up in the suburban car hell. Your videos reminded me again of how lucky I am to live in Germany and Europe in general.
Thank you and please keep on making videos about Amsterdam and not just bikes
I'm American and as soon as I'm 18, I will visit all the countries in Europe especially the Nederlands
Hello from Paris. Such a dream for us in France. This is what a civilized transport infrastructure looks like. And you are always improving it. When I cycle to my local Ikea, I have to carefully study the itinerary beforehand, and yet the trip is full of obstacles and danger (cycle path only 20% of the way) and there is not even a parking for bicycles.
looks like 23 minutes of good time with peace of mind and little bit of excercize. i'd probably be a bit sad that the trip is over when i get to ikea
You have a solid channel here my friend. I'm obsessed with all things dutch. You have just the kind of content I tend to dig. Cheers to you.
American bicycle ride: "god damn traffic lights... Aaa HEY! watch where you drive! *bonk* OW CRAP! finally I can go!.. oh wait an other traffic light
Dutch bicycle ride: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Dude this is so sick, I'd probably bike everywhere in Brooklyn if we had seperated bike lanes like this.
I need a full playlist of videos like these. So soothing
It’s ridiculous how long you have to wait at 8:00 to 10:30, two and a half minutes waiting for a traffic light, sorry in this case a stoplight. You should write the municipality of Amsterdam or Ouder-Amstel (don’t know if it was in Amsterdam ZO of Duivendrecht). You had to wait a whole traffic light cycle, but bikes could have gone halfway through the traffic light cycle. Then it would be about a minute to a minute and a half, still long, but doable.
Yeah, it's crazy, eh?
@@NotJustBikes Already spoiled haha! All nice bike lanes and complaining about one traffic light. You integrated well in Dutch society 😂😂😂
P Constructor I was pretty surprised about the ridiculous waiting time as well
I thought of that too. But I'm from Germany and my municipality would laugh at this complain, I guess we have deeper problems concerning bike infrastructure
(I haven't ridden there for some three years now.) Yes, there are some traffic lights with non-Amsterdam-like long waiting times for slow traffic. Wasn't this the Spaklerweg crossing the Van der Madeweg? Would be Duivendrecht (Ouder-Amstel). That crossroads does have quite some dispersing lorry traffic at times, and I seem to remember that cyclists seem to have green every alternate light cycle.
However, I also remember waiting long at the crossroads quite near the start, right after the Berlagebrug. I would cross that parallel to the river Amstel.
Sidebar: the first few minutes show places that Rembrandt has often sketched. Quite rural until roughly 1900. And even I (born 1956) remember meadows with cows during most of this trip (and the industrial site on our right, roughly up to that irritating traffic light). Traveling by train from Amsterdam Amstel station to Utrecht felt like crossing a green desert, passing the rural stations of Abcoude, Breukelen and rush-hours only Maarssen before re-entering civilization with the Demka steel works.
I'll be watching this during my stationary bike workouts 😂
I'm a passionate cyclist, done multiple bikepacking trips to Emmen, Groningen and cities between. I really love your videos. keep on with the good content. maybe I'll see you one day on one of my next trips :)
Wow, I love how there are separate bike lanes! Are all roads like that?
Yes, pretty much every street, unless it's low-traffic and a 30km/h speed limit.
Jup
@@NotJustBikes for translation 30km/h is 20mph for anyone who’d need this.
I live in South Holland near Rotterdam and this still feels like home all the typical dutch stuff
No shit mate 😂 it’s a tiny country
its nice to see the building i work, is still there! thanks for checking :)
Unfortunately this video was taken about two months ago, so it might not be there anymore. You might need to go check! 😂
Despite being a lot smaller than the US, it looks far more spacious than our cities.
I recently came across your channel and I just wanna say that you are a blessing, keep it up and stay safe. :))
But think how much more coffee you have to drink in the morning to compensate for the lack of adrenaline since no cars almost hit you!
But in all seriousness, I wish the US would get on board with this infrastructure, not the stupid painted lanes. I rode every day to work in Boston, almost got hit on a daily basis. All my coworkers were always surprised when I said I preferred riding downtown vs further out of the city -- but with how much faster everyone drives outside of the city it's truly terrifying(as you've highlighted in several of your videos).
Are "right hooks" ever an issue in the Netherlands? Ie, when a car turns right and has to cross over a bike lane going straight? These are consistently an issue for me in the US and have resulted in more than one window knocking to let the driver know I was next to them.
Keep up the good work, I love seeing how terrible the US is at things :P
Ian Saucy no they are not. Cars learn to stop for bicycles going straight. There are also signs indicating that there is a bike path next to you and telling you've to stop for them. source I'm dutch
Yeah, we don't really have a problem with right-hooks, no. But the intersections are designed very differently here, so that cars intersect with the bicycle path at a nearly 90 degree angle, improving sight-lines, and making right-hooks much less common. Plus people are very used to looking for bicycles when they drive, especially since most people cycle themselves sometimes!
Here is the best video I've ever found about the junctions in the Netherlands, by BicycleDutch: ua-cam.com/video/XpQMgbDJPok/v-deo.html
One of the basic Dutch traffic rules/laws has almost always been: straight-through traffic (traffic following the road it's on) has right of way... included even pedestrians walking down a street. Cars have to yield when they want to turn into a side street, crossing the path of a pedestrian on his way down the same road said car is about to leave...
If you ever feel like seeing some 'bad' cycling infrastructure close to Amsterdam, try cycling to Muiden from the east side of Amsterdam. There's this two way yet very narrow lane with sheeps sleeping on the asphalt. You do get a very nice view of the IJsselmeer, which sort of makes up for it.
GREAT now if i want to go outside i can just watch this :D
20 minute bike ride in amsterdam: I rode through the suburbs and made it to the ikea
20 minute bikeride in america: I've escaped my neighborhood and made it to a QuikTrip.
I don't even have an Ikea in my state.
I moved to The Netherlands a year ago, (in Bijlmermeer) I have to say it is also a pro uniq to this neighborhood, I commute to the center and I also bike a lot around got me kinda frustrated because here I am used to that you as a biker gets the most priority and all bike path are asphalt (not pavement) . In case someone doesn't know this area has all the roads elevated but such a way that you don't even see it, in general you don't get in contact with automobiles and traffic.
IKEA Delft has a nice bicycle parking out front!
I am in exchange in south korea for halve a year. Lovely to be here not as much restrictions with corona. But i miss my bike. I am so restricted with public transport.
Cycling is one of the best ways of social distancing for short-medium trips. 0-20km trips you can do on bikes without being locked up with others in small spaces.
At IKEA just enter with the cars. At 21:17 you see the yellow entrance on the left of the building. Just go straight after going in and you’re at the entrance. Zuid-Oost in general has great bike lanes
Yeah, that's good advice, and that's the way I came out when I left. This IKEA could really use some better signage for cyclists. The Groningen IKEA has cycling signs and even a cycling path on the property!
So satisfying
I think there is a route with less traffic lights but it’s a bit longer. I used to cycle from West to near that Ikea with only tree stops.
Yes, there are a few better ways to go than this, but I took this route because I had never taken it before, and because it would make a more interesting video (I wanted some video of the protected intersections, for example).
I have bicycled that bit of the Weesperzijde countless times. It's my route into town.
Yea, part from the rembrandttoren towards the Makro for me (i wouldve gone to the left there tho instead of to the toekomst)
I want these awesome cycle paths in Germany !
Cycling to the Utrecht Ikea Is very easy too, although I'm not yet used to the slow cycling style like the Dutch. I'm used to cycling through North Wales
Question: How have you drawn that route on the map in the left upper corner of the frame?
Manually. 😬 I don't recommend it.
I took an image of openstreetmaps for the area, drew a line of my route in my video editing program (Davinci Resolve/Fusion), and key-framed it to the intersections that I stopped at. It looks good, but it takes way too long to get it right.
@@NotJustBikes ouch... My first thought was precisely that one, but then I thought "he must have found out an easier way to do this. Guess not 🤪
@@NotJustBikes why not using a tracking app next time? There are plenty for running and biking. Some with even a replay function
@@p_mouse8676 I've used those apps before, but I prefer the way it looks if I have full control over it.
Had the same question in mind.
Looks pretty smooth. One thing though, at 8 minutes in the video, you stop for 2 minutes and 40 seconds waiting for the light to tell you you can go. I personally find that pedestrians or cyclist should NEVER have to wait more than 45 seconds, at the very most. There's a simple reason for that : everyone is a pedestrian at some point, not everyone drives a car (and more importantly, not everyone can afford a car), as you point out in many of your videos. Also, even in Vancouver in Canada I don't think I've ever had to wait more than a minute top before I could cross, even in busy stroads.
Usually when crossing main car arteries such as at 8 minutes the traffic light cycle is longer because the movement of traffic is more complex. Waiting times get less when streets get smaller and less complex. It's a small price to pay considering the benefits of our infrastructure.
Yeah they should implement more pedestrian and bike sensors at that intersection, there were a couple of places I think it would have been safe to cross but the lights didnt reflect that. Better safe than sorry but I'm sure it has room for a little more efficiency in its design
Fun fact: IKEA Delft is where all the money from all over the world comes to to save itself from taxes (Netherlands, just like Ireland, is a tax haven). Everyone thinks IKEA is owned by Sweden - well, Ingka is, but all the ingka money goes into the Netherlands to Inter IKEA Systems B.V., the "copyright holder" of IKEA as a brand and every single product it makes. They do the same tax dodging as every other transnational corporation. For example Apple does it in Ireland.
A typical cold and very windy bikeride in the Netherlands. If you had had that as a headwind, man you would be sweating your ass off at 7 Celsius.
Americans: NOOOOO, CITIES ARE FOR CARS, HOW WILL I BUY MY FIFTY FLATPACK CHAIRS FROM IKEA?!?!!?
The Dutch: heehee, fiets gaan wheeeeeeee
1:56 that's just like the diagonal path I made in my model of a city
If i tried to do this in Russia i would have been killed by a car aproximately 74 times. Per minute.
if only my commute would look like this...
Amazingly good infrastructure, will there be any tree or hedge on planting on the verges in the future to soften the stark landscape ?
It's a trip through mostly fairly recent urban/business developments. Trees need time to grow...
Thank you for this!
Love the overall presentation of your videos.
No love for the Johan Cruyff Arena around 14:00 mark. Guess if it was called the Wayne Gretzky Arena you would be all over it :). You still able to follow Hockey living outside of Canada for so long now or just not possible?
Stay safe and looking forward to your next videos!
I was never really into following hockey. I like watching it, but not following it. That's probably why I had to leave Canada. 🤔
Something interesting to me watching this video (from Ottawa, Canada): when overtaking someone (pedestrian or cyclist) on your bike, is it just not part of the culture to ring your bell to alert them that you are passing? That's a pretty big deal here, people get pissy if you don't.
I would say the rule is to ring your bell only when there is not enough space to savely overtake someone. So only when there is a clear need to alert the other person(s). But mostly no
The Berlagebrug, where the video starts, was the place where the Canadians entered the city in the liberation from the Germans. See some historical photos here: www.zuidelijkewandelweg.nl/archief/bevrijding/index.htm
12:13 first time in netherland? lol
It strikes me with videos like these that actually people who walk with wheels do end up going quite spritely. Walking with wheels doesn’t leave you being a slowed person.
I like the map in the top corner showing where you are. Is it difficult to add those, or driven by GPS data from the camera?
It's totally manually and quite difficult to add, unfortunately.
Nice footage! Basically my commute to work except I also have to dodge tourists in the center of town 😭. What equipment do you use to record? Is it a gopro?
This was filmed with a GoPro HERO 7 attached to the frame of the bakfiets.
I hate riding through the centre, so when I had to commute to Noord I took the metro. 😉
@@NotJustBikes Thanks for the info!
Loved it!
Can you make a video about swapfiets? It is getting quite popular in Berlin. What do dutch people think about the provider?
By the way, I really enjoyed your videos :).
Amazing infrastructure, I wish we had that in Montreal. At around 2:00, you seem to be in large car-free space that look like an office park, I was wondering how they do delivery and how people with reduced mobility navigate there?
In the Netherlands, people reduced mobility use special bicycles, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, or specialized vehicles like the Canta. They are not forced to have to drive cars everywhere, like they are in North America. It is a MUCH better environment for people with reduced mobility here.
Deliveries are via an entrance on the other side of the building, or the trucks use this same path.
To your left, at the beginning, there's my favorite FEBO on the other side of the Vrijheidslaan - but you know that already. I mean about the FEBO not that it's my favorite. I had to scroll to the end to see if you were riding a bakfiets - but I couldn't see.
Just a regular day for me 🤷♂️ why doesn’t everyone have this.
Nice to know people still ride their bikes on the sidewalk even with extensive bike paths. Lol. I thought people only did that in LA.
Hey you should come over to Eindhoven and cycle to IKEA. It’s much better honestly. Our train station area sucks a lot but the rest of the way is really nice
Why would you go the Ikea on a bicycle? You don't go that far out of the city to buy 6 glasses or or 1 table cloth. I presume, but I might be wrong, to buy a bed, or a desk, or a couch, or any other kind of cheap but smartly packed furniture. So I would think you go by car. Don't take this as criticism, I am just wondering.
I talk about this in my video from last week: ua-cam.com/video/CgvYgxo6UY8/v-deo.html
We are Dutchies
We do everything on a bike
Not everybody owns a car. It's a strange idea to not own a car in places like the US, but here in the Netherlands, it's not all that uncommon. IKEA also does deliveries, so when you want to buy a new bed, or desk, or couch, you can go there by bike, find what you want, test it for comfort and have it delivered at an agreed-upon time.
God I wish that were me
Cool! I'm so miss about those Dutch bike paths... I lived at Hague just for a three months.
Unfortunately, in my (post USSR) country we have only cracked asphalt and broken sidewalks, and I can ride only on hardtail, wich I bought in Hague's Decathlon store.
oh I actually have just watched all of your videos, straight up...... :( wtf I need mooooooooore !
If you like this kind of content, check out my new channel, NJB Live, where I livestream bike rides: ua-cam.com/channels/9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw.html
Things that you might find interesting (I did):
1:56 I love this cycle path. It's bicycles only and diagonal, and just .. nice
2:45 Dutch junction with cycling priority
4:40 Surprisingly crappy crossing, for the Netherlands (not raised)
5:44 Another non-raised crossing
6:15 End of tiled bicycled paths, smooth asphalt begins!
11:03 Double bicycle speed bumps
11:12 Tiles are back :(
11:30 Asphalt is back!
No more tiles for the rest of the ride
12:54 & 12:59 I love the way you see the train briefly appear ;)
16:00 Woman cycling with IKEA boxes in a bakfiets
19:43 Uh ...
19:52 Oops
21:28 OK, I'll just yield for a while ...
22:05 End of fietspad / start of IKEA property
22:13 No idea where I'm supposed to cycle to (could use a sign, IKEA!)
22:21 Still no signs for cycle parking
22:35 Nope, still nothing for cycling ಠ_ಠ
22:41 I think it's down here (by memory)
23:11 Bicycle parking (at least it's near the door!)
Protected intersections:
0:10
1:23
2:45 (roundabout)
6:15
7:49
11:42
14:29
16:15
17:43
19:37
Traffic lights I had to wait at:
0:18
7:55 HOW LONG IS THIS LIGHT!? (10:33)
11:47
16:19
20:00
Let me know if there's anything interesting I missed!
4:40 not surprising, those square tiles aren't used anymore, when that crossing gets an overhaul it will be different. Even within the Netherlands there is a limit on how much you can spend on infra for cycling.
In various places those red tiles are a placeholder. Rather than putting in red asphalt for temporary roads, tiles are used. To me it is the frugal thing to do.
19:43 Ah, those impossible, important and annoying patch jobs. Emergency repair for whatever gas- electric- data- infrastructure is hiding below the road.
So is this to show that cycling to/from/in an industrial zone or wide spread area is totally possible? People won't take this route because it's pretty! We'll need to work on that for sure.
@Thistle Flower huh. I did not know that. Thanks!
what did you use for the visualization up left corner?
2:27 - 2:40 bicycle carnage around Blooker shows a lack of a decent bicycle parking facilities goo.gl/maps/9gpkXhigyugLeJdv7
5:09 Gerritse flag wants to break free
Hey, I saw someone cycling between Nieuwmarkt and Centraal Station today, twice in the same direction within a short period, and with a professional-looking camera on his bike. And he looked a bit like you; was it you? Can we expect a video of this neighbourhood? P.S. All great videos with intelligent commentary!
Nope, that wasn't me! It was probably someone like Thomas Schlijper. Plus I use a GoPro when I'm riding, not professional gear.
@@NotJustBikes Ah, it seems I am bad at stalking, then. Besides, I wouldn't know the difference between a Go Pro device and professional-looking cameras. Looking forward to your next video.
This ikea seems still very car orientated!
It is. It's near the very edge of the suburbs of Amsterdam. This is an area that was designed only for cars, and then had bicycle paths added at a later time. It's still way too car-centric for the Netherlands, but it does provide hope that other car-centric suburbs in the world could be better than they are today.
I love this series but for this particular route, the video quality would have been more appealing if you took this route in reverse. But, that is life for a bike rider- always riding to work into the sun and returning home into the sun. As for the wind , it worked the same way except for you Americans, be thankful, as when I rode in Holland, no matter which direction I went, the wind was always against me every day. Producer, care to do a show about the Dutch winds?
22:08- haha, Dutch bike does BRRRT
I biked almost this exact route back when I studied there in 2017! Only difference is I started at Oost-Indisch Huis (where I had a class at the time) and went a little past the IKEA to the IWO Exam Hall. I severely regretted not taking the metro, cause it took me nearly an hour each way with my heavy Batavus Omafiets T_T
Greetings from Singapore 😄 In a tropical climate all that sun would fry us to a crisp (average temp here is 30°C). Could you share your camera attachment setup and the software you use to track the ride (that inset video up left 🤓)? Besides putting the distance of the ride, during long intersection waits you could point the camera towards the intersection so we can study the traffic light sequences... just a suggestion 😅 Cheers and keep up the good work! 👍🏻👍🏻🚲🚲
Nice! I've been to Singapore many, many times, and my brother-in-law used to live there. I think that people would easily cycle in Singapore if it were safer to do so. Whenever it was over 30 degrees in Toronto I would prefer cycling over public transit. Cycling uses 1/3 the energy of walking, but cycling cools you down as you're moving quickly through the air. If people walk somewhere, then it's even easier to cycle, as long as you're not cycling too fast.
I did not use any special software for the map inset: it was very manual. I took an image from OpenStreetMaps, drew my route on it in my video editing program (Davinci Resolve/Fusion), and added keyframes for when I stopped at intersections. It's very manual, unfortunately, so I don't think I'll do it often.
As for moving the camera, it's fixed to the frame of the bike and on the bakfiets it's over a metre away from where I'm riding, so that's not possible, unfortunatley!
Not Just Bikes ah I see! Yes, Singapore has a long way to go in terms of safety and attitudes. But recently the government announced a fast-tracking of building more cycling paths so that’s a good thing I guess.
Did you see this BicycleDutch video about cycling at 40°C ? ua-cam.com/video/Rtcp6av_CSs/v-deo.html
What kind of camera are you using? And where do you attach it to your bike? On the front fork?
It's a GoPro HERO 7. During this ride I was on our Babboe City bakfiets, and I mounted it on the front frame, just above the front wheel.
17:55 I used to work in those towers :D
Ik woon ook in de rivieren buurt maar dan in Groningen lol
8:00 - 10:30 Waiting 2.5 minutes for a traffic light?
I hate it when they prioritize a few cars over pedestrians and cyclists.
Outrageous. Very un-Dutch. P.s. I am Dutch.
24:30 The approach (car entry) and the bicycle facility (small) is pathetic.
IKEA Barendrecht has a decent bicycle parking facility, away from the car parking, and close to the main entrance. Though, oddly enough, it misses about 4 meters of bicycle lane that should have been there crossing the pedestrian walkway towards the bicycle parking.
Yes I thought that waiting that long was very un-Dutch, too, and it's part of the reason I wanted to upload this ride to UA-cam. I felt like something went wrong with it.
@@NotJustBikes Yes... I was screaming at the lights already like I normally also do but then silently :).... and it looked like the lights for the cars went several times from red to green... while the traffic light for the bikes kept on being red...
You and CITY BEAUTIFUL should collaborate
Highway next ikea was completely redesigned ,i visit this ikea often from nearby diemen
What program do you use to make this videos, with the map in the left top corner?
I did it "by hand" in Davinci Resolve (Fusion) and it was horrible. I don't recommend it.
7:55 Did you press the button next to the traffic light?
Yes I did. Several times!
Louis Jansen the waiting time there surprised me
Almost 3 minutes, really?
@@NotJustBikes Aha! That's the problem. Every time you press the button, the timer resets. You brought this onto yourself! ;)
You live pretty close to me!
Whilst the route from your home to IKEA is along good cycle roads you do seem to be cycling through a green desert.
12:14 it may not be what it seems. We used to be told to ring our bell when we pass other bikers.
That one's simply trolling the zombie staring at his phone on the cyclepath crossing...
I used to cycle there every day
Do you ever use WAZE to navigate bike routes?
No, never. I use Google Maps, though their bicycle directions are quite bad in the Netherlands. The best routes are from the Fiestersbond, but their app is not particularly user-friendly. I usually find the best route in the Fietsersbond app, and then use Google Maps while I'm actually cycling.
What kind of bike do you have, Gazelle, Batavus?
For this video I was riding a Babboe City bakfiets.
Wait. What?! Does the Dutch even implement traffic calming on their cycle paths as well? @2:03
Yup! Because it's a blind corner.
@@NotJustBikes I have always been very much impressed by Dutch engineering like the big dams and so on. To think that they implement traffic calming on their cycle paths as well just makes me more impressed.
@@explorer914 Here's another example that I ride over almost every week. This is traffic calmed (for bicycles) because there are several schools here:
goo.gl/maps/UFGRkSLBSpCCdw3B6
There's also the issue that they allow scooters on a lot of cycle paths.
@@webchimp Yes I've seen that. The scooter drivers don't have helmets most of the time either...
it's so quiet there.
I used to live in the Rivierenbuurt. Obviously I had a bicycle for some local journeys e.g. to the office or the city centre, but I wouldn’t dream of cycling all the way to IKEA. Especially if I intended to actually buy items when I get there. Same goes for groceries. Still would always need and want my beloved car for certain things, especially if it’s raining or transporting large or heavy items. Or just because I love driving. There has to be a role for all modes of transport: public transport, bicycles, and cars, not a demonisation or exclusion of any one mode. ❤️
Seems like the cobblestones create a lot of vibration, which equals fatigue... rider & bicycle. Why not just pave the whole length of the bike lanes, like the streets? Speed control, maybe?🤷♂️
This is a more traditional way of paving cycle paths. It is cheap, needs little foundation and you can easily repair it when there's a need to replace the infrastructure underneath it, or when the peat ground subsides. When they're going to replace these paths, they might just put ashalt on them. Speed control won't be the issue, as the tiles aren't effective in slowing down mopeds. At 11:01 you can see speed controlling bumps that send mopeds flying if they go too fast. If they really want to annoy cyclists, they had better used coarse stone like on these new paths: goo.gl/maps/R2q563tyLq7tJnzu9
@@peterslegers6121 - Ahhh. CHEAP! Got it😂 Didn't realize mopeds were allowed. I would think this would defeat the purpose of a safe, bicycle only lane, though... for the reason you mentioned, the annoyance from motorized vehicles.
I also thought it is better for drainage. The water has a place to go (between the tiles) but mayeb that is just me trying to find a positive reason for the stones. Also when it is done right I prefer the look of the stones over the asphalt. It looks more friendlier.
@@xJonnaax - The appearance would be irrelevant. What works best for the tires & the ride would be ideal. The drainage could've been a possibility, though. Everybody there seems o.k. riding in the rain. Usually cobbles beat the hell out of you, and the bike. Paris Roubaix is one of the most punishing bicycle races in the world because of the cobblestone sections. Much WORSE than here, but still... even these smaller one's would add up over time in a regular commute. You'd pick tires accordingly, though, I guess. Like Roubaix, bigger... low psi.
jmr5707 some tiles are smooth though. And the appearance is my opinion and I don’t think that is irrelevant.
I like to see you cycle in Twente.
wait time 7:55 till 10:35. pretty long, any reason?
My mans literally biked to ikea under 30 mins. I can go to like the subway station in 30 mins just to bike back lmfao
Are petrol powered scooters a problem in the inner city with air quality and noise requirements? I heard a couple or so years back they were being 'grandfathered' under new regulations from the council (local govt). Is this correct?
I cycle in Auckland New Zealand (worse than London Ontario I bet) where bicycles are still a novelty... you have no idea, absolutely no idea what it is to risk your life every time you ride in Auckland, and much of New Zealand for that matter. Arguably the most dangerous country in the OECD bar none. You do have to be a dedicated "cyclist" (that word) in Aotearoa to ride a bicycle. Whenever I think Bike New Zealand, the term 'wild west' comes to mind. There is a small amount of new bicycle infrastructure, but if you come from Holland, you would barely notice it. There are about 5 Km of usable and decent bicycle pathways in the centre of Auckland city, otherwise it's bus lanes, narrow green painted gutters and cars galore. Jealousy is hard to conceal sometimes...
How do you keep the camera that stable
Watching this zen-ass video makes me so happy.
Yeah, you *could* have ridden a car.
But by riding a bicycle , you have :
-Made yourself more fit \ helped your late night sleeping
-Killed CO2 contributions that using a car would have put out
-Took in more nature while having to pay attention less (Driving is intense)
-*Not* paid for gas because of the gas you were *not* using.
Yeah a car would have saved you some time, but , heck.
I miss biking.
Living in England, you aren't allowed to ride them on the sidewalks (insane) , *and* the roads are fucking dangerous. Either covered turns by brushes, 1-car roads with zero pedestrian, nvm car paths or safety, constant bastard rain.
I used to love riding my bike in Hungary when I was younger.
When I can, I want to get another bike and go use it. Fat bastard sitting at the PC all day most days :-P. Would do good for my health, though at 35 I may be kind of too late. And I need to wait till we move (funnily enough, to the Netherlands!) at some point in the coming decade...
That's how you spell the word at 12:58?
@ 7:42 you basically got a STROAD in de nederlands 🤔
so much for it being paradise on earth
That's just a road, not a stroad. The entrances to buildings are on side streets.
What bike donu Ride?
It sounds as if you're riding a cargo bike.
Indeed, I am. A Babboe City.
Can the next video be "Walking to IKEA" so I don't have to watch this at x0.25?
Not many people outside
The audacity of the Dutch to not prioritize car centred infrastructure!
Why bike to IKEA if you can't bike back with any furniture? Wouldn't want to fit a table on my bicycle
Why can't I bike back with any furniture? Do you really think you can only carry IKEA furniture in a car? Have you never heard of a bakfiets?
Anyway, watch my commentary video on this and I explain it.