you think he's the only one? I do 500 km a month, at least ;) Just by cycling to work. Other guy I know does 110km 20 days a month (he eats an entire loaf of bread at work 🤣).
I live in southern California where I wish I could bike to the beach this easily. Luckily, there are some "mountain to beach" bike trails along rivers or highways that we can enjoy. A couple of the inland bike trails are near train stations too. Santa Ana River Trail would probably be the best one for a Dutch visitor if they like Harlaam to Zandvoort route
I take a large part of this route on the way back from work, especially to see the Scottish Highlanders, wild horses, foxes and deer... shame you didn't see any Ik neem een groot deel van deze route op weg terug van werk, speciaal om de Schotse Hooglanders, wilde paarden, vossen en herten te zien...jammer dat je er geen een gezien hebt
As someone from Haarlem, I would love to hear what you thought about our infrastructure. I live on the Zijlweg, which is one of the roads you’ve cycled through.
Garenkokerskade?/Yarn boilers dock? Dronkendelweg?/ Drunk trollop way? They have some funny steet names up there! If anybody knows the etymology of these names, i would be very interested.
A garenkoker used to boil flax so that it could be used to make linen, the kade was the dock or wharf where they worked. The meaning of the word del can be trollop, but in this case it is a valley in the dunes. Dronken can mean drunk, in this case it means flooded. So the translation is flooded valley way.
@@BicycleDutch In de 17e eeuw waren er veel garenkokers in dat gedeelte van Haarlem. Garen werd gekookt voordat het verwerkbaar was. Previnaire was een van die fabrikanten aldaar. Er is dus zelfs een straat naar hem genoemd. Het benodigde water voor de fabriek betrokken zij uit de Brouwersvaart, deze was verbonden was met de Brouwerskolk in Bloemendaal. Dit alles is er nog steeds te intact. De vele bierbrouwers n Haarlem gebruikten ook dat (duin)water voor hun bier. Iedereen (zelfs de kinderen) dronk bier omdat water gewoonlijk vervuild was en bier was gezuiverd en veel lekkerder dan water.
In any other country you would be right, but you can see she is a local and knows the place well, specially on the 2nd traffic light as others followed her. The first traffic light there’s nothing coming, likely only buses on that road as the one you saw after. The other one thing u need to understand is any “red” road, brick or tarmac, in the Netherlands is a bike priority road, everyone else needs to hold, also most ppl ride bikes at around 10kmh (except e-bikes) and cars in red roads need to drive at 30kmh.
@@borchen0 That’s a rhetorical question. You could ask that same question on pedestrian lights when there’s no car coming, normal ppl would usually cross it anyway…unless you’re a German! 😂
Really, the route through the National Park isn’t really ideal for bikes and pedestrians, but what do you suggest? A two lane asphalt highway right through it?
I am a Brit living in NL. I am surprised when I hear my Dutch friends criticise the NS rail network. Compared with UK it gives a great quality service for a relatively low cost. But I appreciate that NL rail costs have increased in recent years rendering it less affordable for lower income people. I would feel much the same over the cycling infrastructure - I can cycle the length and breadth of the country on dedicated cycle lanes, and almost never have to cycle close to high speed cars and trucks. Not perfect, but things get better. This channel did an interesting video about a situation in Utrecht (i think) where a particular route had gone from cars to no cars, then back again - finally to a modern cycle route. So even in NL quality takes time to establish. For now though NL are envy of the world wrt their urban and regional cycle routes.
The fact that Dutch people complain (even when it’s 1000x better here than in other countries) is how the Netherlands continues to improve beyond what a lot of us from other countries could imagine! It’s part of Dutch culture and I appreciate it a lot. Always room for improvements. :)
Forgot how much I love these.
Thank you for the ride! Beautiful route.
Mark has the biggest quads of any man in Holland, every day is leg day!
Then you haven't seen the quads of Harry Lavreysen ; )
you think he's the only one? I do 500 km a month, at least ;)
Just by cycling to work. Other guy I know does 110km 20 days a month (he eats an entire loaf of bread at work 🤣).
@@corbeau-_- I just eat the bread pretty much.
Thanks for the wonderful ride Mark! I also enjoyed the look at Grote Krocht and Kleine Krocht. Fascinating busy place!
I live in southern California where I wish I could bike to the beach this easily. Luckily, there are some "mountain to beach" bike trails along rivers or highways that we can enjoy. A couple of the inland bike trails are near train stations too. Santa Ana River Trail would probably be the best one for a Dutch visitor if they like Harlaam to Zandvoort route
Amazing view!
Prachtig! Wat blijft Nederland toch mooi🤩
Danke fürs mitnehmen. Wir sind viele deiner Touren schon im Urlaub gefahren, wir lieben die Niederlande wegen der Fahrradkultur ! ❤ 😊
Me too :) Netherlands = cycling!!!
Great video
Nice and sunny. I hope it wasn't too hot.
I like the comments. I would appreciate it if there are more.
I take a large part of this route on the way back from work, especially to see the Scottish Highlanders, wild horses, foxes and deer... shame you didn't see any
Ik neem een groot deel van deze route op weg terug van werk, speciaal om de Schotse Hooglanders, wilde paarden, vossen en herten te zien...jammer dat je er geen een gezien hebt
Leuke video!
Heaven on Earth
I haven't encountered a temporary bridge like the on that's on Ezelweg within the park (at 34:16), in my visits to the Netherlands.
There was (and probably will be) some flooding, so some temporary bridges..
As a Haarlemmer, you should have taken the road to Bloemendaal beach, starting from behind the station.
Hope it was as beautiful to ride as it looks right here on the video!
Probably much nicer irl!
Merci pour la googlemap's !😀
As someone from Haarlem, I would love to hear what you thought about our infrastructure. I live on the Zijlweg, which is one of the roads you’ve cycled through.
I wonder what the air quality readings for that area might be.
Garenkokerskade?/Yarn boilers dock?
Dronkendelweg?/ Drunk trollop way?
They have some funny steet names up there! If anybody knows the etymology of these names, i would be very interested.
I was also very surprised! I did like ‘through the desert” 😎
A garenkoker used to boil flax so that it could be used to make linen, the kade was the dock or wharf where they worked. The meaning of the word del can be trollop, but in this case it is a valley in the dunes. Dronken can mean drunk, in this case it means flooded. So the translation is flooded valley way.
@@BicycleDutch In de 17e eeuw waren er veel garenkokers in dat gedeelte van
Haarlem. Garen werd gekookt voordat het verwerkbaar was. Previnaire was een
van die fabrikanten aldaar. Er is dus zelfs een straat naar hem genoemd.
Het benodigde water voor de fabriek betrokken zij uit de Brouwersvaart, deze was verbonden
was met de Brouwerskolk in Bloemendaal. Dit alles is er nog steeds te intact.
De vele bierbrouwers n Haarlem gebruikten ook dat (duin)water voor hun bier. Iedereen (zelfs de kinderen)
dronk bier omdat water gewoonlijk vervuild was en bier was gezuiverd en veel lekkerder dan water.
Did you record this during the Dutch Grand Prix weekend?
Probably not because it is not very busy. The racetrack is on the left at 58:20
One week after that weekend.
Summer was nice while it lasted.
That is a nice trip, what gear did you use to make this video ?
Purworejo, Central Java, Absen
The mother with child in the beginning ignores the red light...twice...not exactly a good example for her child.
In any other country you would be right, but you can see she is a local and knows the place well, specially on the 2nd traffic light as others followed her. The first traffic light there’s nothing coming, likely only buses on that road as the one you saw after. The other one thing u need to understand is any “red” road, brick or tarmac, in the Netherlands is a bike priority road, everyone else needs to hold, also most ppl ride bikes at around 10kmh (except e-bikes) and cars in red roads need to drive at 30kmh.
@@richiedamienSo the trafficlights for cyclists are just decoration?
@@borchen0 That’s a rhetorical question. You could ask that same question on pedestrian lights when there’s no car coming, normal ppl would usually cross it anyway…unless you’re a German! 😂
@@richiedamienor Japanese
@@borchen0 Absolutely, yes! Been there and saw it with my eyes! There's likely a few other countries alike, but I think you get what I meant!
so many ignoring the red light, why is that? Don't they get fined?
sometimes yes, sometimes no
Zandwoort! I’ve been there for two times. Coastal scenes like from Knocking on the heavens door movie 😊
One job I would avoid in NL; roofer.
Stopping at a red light is optional :)
No, but some dutch riders are horks.
Especially if you have kids. Wouldn't want to be a good role model...
I wish America would grow up and build for people not cars
annoying to hear your bike rattle. improve the sound.
As a Dutchman I’m not really impressed by the cycling infrastructure, low quality and quite dangerous at times…
This infrastructure is still better than anything my country has.
Really, the route through the National Park isn’t really ideal for bikes and pedestrians, but what do you suggest? A two lane asphalt highway right through it?
You clearly are not a Dutchman.
I am a Brit living in NL. I am surprised when I hear my Dutch friends criticise the NS rail network. Compared with UK it gives a great quality service for a relatively low cost.
But I appreciate that NL rail costs have increased in recent years rendering it less affordable for lower income people.
I would feel much the same over the cycling infrastructure - I can cycle the length and breadth of the country on dedicated cycle lanes, and almost never have to cycle close to high speed cars and trucks.
Not perfect, but things get better. This channel did an interesting video about a situation in Utrecht (i think) where a particular route had gone from cars to no cars, then back again - finally to a modern cycle route. So even in NL quality takes time to establish.
For now though NL are envy of the world wrt their urban and regional cycle routes.
The fact that Dutch people complain (even when it’s 1000x better here than in other countries) is how the Netherlands continues to improve beyond what a lot of us from other countries could imagine! It’s part of Dutch culture and I appreciate it a lot. Always room for improvements. :)
Very long video. May be should be broken up to 2 or 3 parts.
Why? You can always pause and watch the rest later. 🤔
That darn TikTok-brain generation, man...
@@DaveJansenTPV :D
No. Long is good. Some of us watch the whole video.
@1:28:36 weird intersection...
yeah :D