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Like the Denglish. 😂 The lady must have felt like having landed on a different planet. Having lived in the US and NL I think we don't fully realize how different our cultures are.
I’ve been watching similar videos of biking in the Netherlands for quite a while now. Wow, this was a great one with the bike mayor. This is on my bucket list for sure! Notice how quiet it is in the cities compared with the US? It’s too bad we don’t have such a vision for some of our smaller towns in America. It would work and attract people like crazy!!!
Nice video! I lived in Utrecht in the early 60s before moving to the states. I was very young and I don't remember if bicycling was as big a thing back then (it probably was) but it always amazes me when I see videos like yours how many people cycle in the Netherlands and how "normal" it is for them. Full disclosure: I live in Detroit where they would NEVER try to get people out of cars and onto bikes.
You might want to read up on the 'Stop de kindermoord' movement in the late '60s that started the transition to more cycling oriented transportation. Or just binge Not Just Bikes here on YT. 😂
As someone that was born in the 60's in Utrecht, no Bycicles weren't a big thing. After WWII the Netherlands was focusing on a car centric approach. It took a lot of deaths including more than 500 children a year, before we "revolted" and demanded change. That change started around early/mid 70's with the protests triggered by an article of Journalist Vic Langenhoff in I believe "de Tijd" and the subsequent founding of "Pressiegroep Stop de Kindermoord" Before WWII Utrecht was a fairly bikefriendly city with a biking history going bacck to 1850 when the first dedicated bikelanes were opened on the Maliebaan. There is a nice article on the website of Oud Utrecht about the biking history. Search on google for "Oud Utrecht Hoe Utrecht fietsstad werd", the article is in Dutch and sadly google websie translation doesn't seem to work so if Dutch has escaped you, you might need to ask for some help.
US cities are going to have to work on bike infrastructure eventually. Doing everything by car just isnt sustainable. Permanent gridlock, endless traffic jams. Look at how much just your city spends on maintaining and upgrading road infrastructure. If you just took 10% of that money and that space and used it for bike infrastructure, there would be less traffic and you would save a bunch of space and money that you can use for other things. Also, electric cars arent going to solve the climate problem so thats another good reason. A bike frame causes a lot less CO2 emission than building a Tesla. Its probably going to take a couple more decades, unfortunately.
That was a nice but also risky spot to start a dice route It could have literally steered you out of the city with one roll or ran you into a dead end (which you kind of did, ending up on what we call "de Punt". I live alongside that canal but in the southerb direction. Personally I would have started from either Lepelenburg or Ledig Erf. 6:13 even without the construction site that point would have been end of the road. There is a small canal about 150m further down the road with no way to cross it from that point. 7:24 "You can easily get into the city center"... well obviously not if your GPS is made out of dice lmao 8:50 with the way you and the bikes were facing when throwing the dice.... I call cheating, you turned around to make the bridge "the first to the right". at 8:28 you already passed that point on your left... naughty naughty. (given my first point I do understand though) 8:58 for tourists, mothers with strollers and the elderly, there is an elevator under the first platform.... oh and for me as I am lazy. 9:34 excuse me? that is not a number. The proper number is 12500. It is just one of many parkings around the station area. I don't think there is an official count but combined I estimate places for a good 25000 bycicles. 9:53 It is called renovated, rebuilding is soomething entirely different. And yes the tower would reach there if it for some unnatural reason would topple over straight and without breaking. Those bricks in the street are fake btw, it is actually a prefab slab that is rolled out, much like they do with grass. The cycling mayor did a good job, I like his enthousiasm but I am a bit disappointed in his "chosen route". It feels like going to New York and only getting shown Central Park and Times Square. If you ever get back to Utrecht I am more than happy to give you a proper tour that shows off our cycling infra and at the same time a historical overview of our city from Roman era till current days. (no money or strings attached) I wasn't aware we were declared best cycling city in the world, it wouldn't surprise me if true.
At around the 9:00 minute mark you're beside the place where I work! It's awesome to see my country represented in such a fun and positive light. Especially with the weather being as beautiful as it is in your video! I didn't know that bicycle mayors were a thing btw, I love that his mission is to advocate for cycling, I do really think life with good cycling infra structure is much better so I love that there is continued advocacy.
It looks like a great video, but unfortunately sometimes you can only hear the sound from 1 can of the headphones this makes it very annoying to watch.
@@globaldreamteam That's the Dutch urge to speak to you in your language showing itself off. For a parallel, think of a french person who would refer to Paris as 'pa-ree'. But in English, the writing would be pronounced as 'per-ris'. Thus, in the same vein your guide calls it 'you-trect' because that makes sense to you, but that is not how the locals pronounce it.
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Like the Denglish. 😂
The lady must have felt like having landed on a different planet. Having lived in the US and NL I think we don't fully realize how different our cultures are.
biking is not our history its our future we almost americanized in the 70's
Thank god we changed it!
I’ve been watching similar videos of biking in the Netherlands for quite a while now. Wow, this was a great one with the bike mayor. This is on my bucket list for sure! Notice how quiet it is in the cities compared with the US? It’s too bad we don’t have such a vision for some of our smaller towns in America. It would work and attract people like crazy!!!
I want to visit the Netherlands again, thanks for this virtual tour
Posted end of March, filmed in the middle of summer.
Jelle is giving golden retriever energy! So cute personality-wise (and also physically hi i'm single☺)
Hahaha true
Well, statistically about half the men his age are also single, so you might get lucky. And we are all very tall.
Superb video of an awesome activity in a wonderful place 😊
Thank you! 😀
Who wants to bike the Netherlands after watching this video? 🚲
I already do that every day :P
Nice video! I lived in Utrecht in the early 60s before moving to the states. I was very young and I don't remember if bicycling was as big a thing back then (it probably was) but it always amazes me when I see videos like yours how many people cycle in the Netherlands and how "normal" it is for them. Full disclosure: I live in Detroit where they would NEVER try to get people out of cars and onto bikes.
Yeah crazy how big of a thing it is here!!
You might want to read up on the 'Stop de kindermoord' movement in the late '60s that started the transition to more cycling oriented transportation.
Or just binge Not Just Bikes here on YT. 😂
As someone that was born in the 60's in Utrecht, no Bycicles weren't a big thing. After WWII the Netherlands was focusing on a car centric approach. It took a lot of deaths including more than 500 children a year, before we "revolted" and demanded change. That change started around early/mid 70's with the protests triggered by an article of Journalist Vic Langenhoff in I believe "de Tijd" and the subsequent founding of "Pressiegroep Stop de Kindermoord"
Before WWII Utrecht was a fairly bikefriendly city with a biking history going bacck to 1850 when the first dedicated bikelanes were opened on the Maliebaan. There is a nice article on the website of Oud Utrecht about the biking history. Search on google for "Oud Utrecht Hoe Utrecht fietsstad werd", the article is in Dutch and sadly google websie translation doesn't seem to work so if Dutch has escaped you, you might need to ask for some help.
US cities are going to have to work on bike infrastructure eventually. Doing everything by car just isnt sustainable. Permanent gridlock, endless traffic jams. Look at how much just your city spends on maintaining and upgrading road infrastructure. If you just took 10% of that money and that space and used it for bike infrastructure, there would be less traffic and you would save a bunch of space and money that you can use for other things.
Also, electric cars arent going to solve the climate problem so thats another good reason. A bike frame causes a lot less CO2 emission than building a Tesla.
Its probably going to take a couple more decades, unfortunately.
Love your videos! so cool seeing all these places
Aw thank you so much! I appreciate that 😊
That was a nice but also risky spot to start a dice route It could have literally steered you out of the city with one roll or ran you into a dead end (which you kind of did, ending up on what we call "de Punt". I live alongside that canal but in the southerb direction. Personally I would have started from either Lepelenburg or Ledig Erf.
6:13 even without the construction site that point would have been end of the road. There is a small canal about 150m further down the road with no way to cross it from that point.
7:24 "You can easily get into the city center"... well obviously not if your GPS is made out of dice lmao
8:50 with the way you and the bikes were facing when throwing the dice.... I call cheating, you turned around to make the bridge "the first to the right". at 8:28 you already passed that point on your left... naughty naughty. (given my first point I do understand though)
8:58 for tourists, mothers with strollers and the elderly, there is an elevator under the first platform.... oh and for me as I am lazy.
9:34 excuse me? that is not a number. The proper number is 12500. It is just one of many parkings around the station area. I don't think there is an official count but combined I estimate places for a good 25000 bycicles.
9:53 It is called renovated, rebuilding is soomething entirely different. And yes the tower would reach there if it for some unnatural reason would topple over straight and without breaking. Those bricks in the street are fake btw, it is actually a prefab slab that is rolled out, much like they do with grass.
The cycling mayor did a good job, I like his enthousiasm but I am a bit disappointed in his "chosen route". It feels like going to New York and only getting shown Central Park and Times Square. If you ever get back to Utrecht I am more than happy to give you a proper tour that shows off our cycling infra and at the same time a historical overview of our city from Roman era till current days. (no money or strings attached)
I wasn't aware we were declared best cycling city in the world, it wouldn't surprise me if true.
Nice ride and fun to see some buildings i worked on as a carpenter.
Hope you guys had a great time in our small country 🙂
Cycling around my neighborhood. That were short cycling routes and a lot of drinks for the short riders. 😅 Hope you enjoyed my area. 😊
yeah.. my home town!.. Thx for showing me around without getting out of my seat! hahah..
Aw. yes of course!! I am so glad you enjoyed the video!! 😀
At around the 9:00 minute mark you're beside the place where I work! It's awesome to see my country represented in such a fun and positive light. Especially with the weather being as beautiful as it is in your video! I didn't know that bicycle mayors were a thing btw, I love that his mission is to advocate for cycling, I do really think life with good cycling infra structure is much better so I love that there is continued advocacy.
Thank you!!
Super random locations. But that makes it a great impression of Dutch ‘city’ life.
I don’t really like Utrecht. City centre is very nice, though.
Did he take you on a bike ride or a pub crawl?
Well we didnt go to a single pub so my answer to you would be your other option lol
It goes to show how easy you can go any place without using a car.
Please signal with your arms when you turn
I love the video!!
Watching people cycling like very much.thailannd.
To explain the power of the bicycle a bit more, it was the secret weapon of the Vietnamese,
and muricans were to "sophistcated" to notice it.
Sophistication had nothing to do with it.
How many times is she going to say cool.
how ever many times i want to on my own channel
dices haha 🙂
It looks like a great video, but unfortunately sometimes you can only hear the sound from 1 can of the headphones this makes it very annoying to watch.
Thanks for your feedback! Definitely had some mic issues, working on it ☺️
Hadn't noticed it, so I wasn't annoyed...
thats fun first ride the bike and then do some other kind of riding.
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Is that Lekker bike?
Fix your audio please, it's either left or right side and that makes it really hard to focus on the video, aka it's chaotic plz fix :)
Thanks for letting me know!
I had no problem focusing...
@@joeycee5680 adhd issues i suppose
@@globaldreamteam hope i didnt sound rude or anything 😗
How to deal with sweaty and smelly?
Riding at that pace you don't have that problem. Otherwise: soap and water lol.
Idiots: drinking beer at the beginning of your cycling trip?
1 beer is not that bad and maybe it was 0,0 , that's a thing now
As a fellow Dutchman to this bicycle-mayor, I do wish (hope) his job perks include an advanced English course 😂
Nah, he's allright. I find the Dutch imitating a "received 👃pronunciation" much worse
The dice doesn’t make any sense. How do you end up on the overway with the numbers you throw???? You wouldn’t end up there.
The magic world of editing.
@@buddy1155 I know, just show her the city.
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Youtrecht? try to pronounce it correctly
I googled the pronunciation
@@globaldreamteam Lol, Google is wrong😂
@@flower_power But also...he pronounced it that way and he is from there sooo
@@globaldreamteam That's the Dutch urge to speak to you in your language showing itself off. For a parallel, think of a french person who would refer to Paris as 'pa-ree'. But in English, the writing would be pronounced as 'per-ris'. Thus, in the same vein your guide calls it 'you-trect' because that makes sense to you, but that is not how the locals pronounce it.
@@Aviertje ok!
It is cycling or fietsen, not biking. Amsterdam is not an American amusement park!
Janker
@@PrinceWalacra Mietje
Lekker zeiken of niet
@@676marvin Zei de zeikerd...
@@AlexK-yr2th lekker je eigen comment liken