In the Netherlands 27% of all journeys are made by bicycle. That and more figures in this video. More information and sources in the blog post: bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?p...
A trip to Amsterdam in 2003 turned me into a cyclist for life. I have never owned a car and I live in the USA. Everyone will tell you it’s impossible. It is possible. The best benefit for me is reduced stress. Cycling is just more pleasant. Love your channel!
Justin Lee Miller amen there, also. Much CHEAPER THAN A CAR😋 I also don't own a car in case of bad weatehr/cold. I take public transportation. (employer pays 90% of bus card) 😊 I save nearly 1,200 a month by switching to not owning a car😂
Do you live in a flat area or maybe you use your bike only around your city? Come to Spain to deal with our hills even into cities, you will swear for an engine or at least an assisted e-bike. Only electric scooters have a future over here and not until you could find recharging points everywhere. For example I used to have my past jobs at around 15-20 kilometers which was rather hard bicycling considering the hills but now my job is 42 kilometers away (84 daily) and in order to get there I have not one but three mountain passes.
We had to take the bike of my grandma away because she is 85 years old and wouldn’t stop riding the bicycle. It became unsafe for her to participate in traffic. But that just shows how integrated our bicycles are in our culture
And they had to fight tooth and nail for it because, like in North America, they had people whining every step of the way. Good thing nobody listened to the naysayers. It's going to be a long road, but hopefully NA ends up like this in the end too.
Which proves that the Dutch are wiser than many other nations in that respect. People need cleaner cities and healthier bodies, two things which cycling can provide.
I hope the future in Canadian cities looks more and more like the Dutch cities. Cycling is quiet, affordable, good for personal fitness, good for public health, and a ton of fun. All this electric car stuff may be a necessary improvement for environmental reasons, but within cities, cycling has way more benefits to offer to civilization. Hooray for the Netherlands, leading the way. And thanks for this channel, eh? From Canada.
- All of them wear no helmets - No special riding gear, normal street clothes - They are all using comfortable sit-up and city touring bikes It is a mistake to only market specialised, overspecs items and make people buying products they don't need. Such examples are high-tech off-road bikes with 28 gears, or 5 kg racers, or brake systems that can make the bicycle flip over with two fingers operation, or forcing people to wear helmets and extra equipment. That's my address to the bicycle industry. Look at the above. This is business, not a few enthusiast only.
An expensive hobby for enthusiasts, that has become of it in many countries. Not an economical (and healthy) form of every day transportation for short distances, as what it should be. The same happened before to motorcycles.
Bravo Holland! I've been commuting to work on my bike for the last 3 years. Every day all year round, regardless of the weather. Love it. Greetings from Poland
I used to cycle to secundary/high school every day all year, which was 10km away. So 100km a week, and I went to that school for 6 years. So I cycled halfway around the world in those years XD (100x40x6=24000) I miss those days, I could eat whatever I want and not gain any weight, and cycling was so easy because of all the muscle I built up. I've been in Ireland for the past 3 years, and I really miss cycling. I can and do cycle here, but it's more a sport than a way of getting somewhere, because of the hills, the distances between towns and lack of cycle lanes. Just 2 more months until I'm reunited with my Dutch bike and the cycle lanes, yay :D
in 2017 there were more deaths in cycling accidents that in cars. not sure how many were head injury related. Edit: Here is the article by Bicycle Dutch, bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/more-cycling-fatalities-than-deaths-in-cars/
@@Chorizosabroso it was the first time ever though, and probably counting electric bikes, which are more dangerous as people are less adjusted to them. And while 6 yo ride their bikes, you need to be 18 for a car... But I think the main factor was that the number of car deaths went down, so that is a good thing.
There only cruising around not doing dumb stuff. I think its okay as long as there actually careful witch they are probably beyond that since they've been doing it for so long
I think it's no small coincidence that you barely see an overweight person in this video. Cycling does so much for the health of a nation that I can't believe there is so much hostility directed at people on bikes in my country (which has an obesity epidemic)
Same. Normal people riding normally with their luggage/bags etc doing their thing, travelling. In the UK there's always sports cyclists in full lycra and helmets and goggles with some mountain type bicycle.
@@Pleezath it's because they prefer cycling rather than riding a motorcycle or a car unlike other countries. Some countries would rather get a loan for a car or a motorcycle because they don't like cycling and it's easier to be ridden.
Your country is an example to the rest of the world in doing it right. Thanks for sharing the information. Your various videos really drive home in a good way what it could be like with a better bicycle infrastructure. Living in Canada I moved from a small city that was just barely looking at making it better for bicycles to a another small city that has moved towards trails and roads that make bicycling better. It is like night and day. I realize that we have some disadvantages here in Canada with poorly laid out cities and winters that can be severe in places but not everywhere and not everyday. If governments are really wanting to do something on green house gases, roadway infrastructure problems, insurance claims (the list goes on and on) then they should be seriously pushing to give precedence to bicycle infrastructure incentives for every city.
"some disadvantages here with vast distances between cities" Well, just start with the daily groceries shopping ! Because I guess that your supermarket isn't in another city ? And going shopping is (after going to school and work) what "we" (the Dutch) mostly use our bikes for. With daily groceries I mean just milk bread fruit and vegetables, stuff you want daily fresh. It also helps that we have small packaging for most products. I have been to Canada in the early 90's and I was 'shocked' about the size of product packaging ! 1 gallon was the smallest can of milk I could find...... that's enough for a month..... Everything was mega sized and if that's still going on today, yes, then shopping by bike can be a real challenge !!
I don't know where you were buying your products here in Canada but we always have had small containers. People here buy in bulk because the merchants have made the price for small items really expensive. Therefore the more you buy the cheaper it is. So there is more bulk items around. As far of riding a bicycle to the store for an item rather than a car is a mind set that is very slow to change here. There seems to be a general mentality to have to get everything done immediately so the bicycle is seen as a inconvenience.
It was one of those mega store concepts, I don't know the exact name anymore. In the 90's my parents and I hired a huge camper and made an ultimate/epic tour around the Rocky Mountains. Starting at our Canadian family home in Richmond Vancouver I remember we went to (almost) all places between Seattle to Calgary. Nairn falls, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper National Park, Harrison Hot spring resort , Othello tunnels, Golden, Kamloops lake, Victoria, Butchart Gardens, Whistler, Edmonton, Vancouver Island. Just to name a few places in our 30 (30 !!!) days trip. We did all the tourist stuff, and shot more than 100 rolls of slides and photo's !! (this was way before digital photo) It was the most beautiful vacation ever ! (and the absolute most expensive) PS, what I remember the most was this, after landing in United States Seattle the first thing we heard on the airport was, "How much money do you have and when are you going back?"..... also when we got slightly lost (no GPS in the 90's) nobody would tell the way unless we paid them..... But at the Canadian border the first thing we heard was "Welcome to Canada, we hope you will have a fantastic holiday and here's a free local road map" ......what a difference !
Steve, with the poorly laid out cities. Come and look at some of the old cities in the Netherlands, they are a nightmare. But not for cyclists. They changed many inner cities to cycle and pedestrian only.
@@Prettype4rls to school it takes me around 35/45 minutes at a normal speed of like 17km/h and when i bike rlly hard at like 25km/h it takes me 25/30/35 min depending on the like air forces (i forgot whats it called)
What all these videos forget to mention is that many people WALKS to the shops. A bicycle is not needed when the shops are 550 meters away. This holds for many people.
Well the point of these videos is advocating more people to use bicycles instead of cars. Walking is an even better option of course. But I find it more practical and faster to carry groceries in my bike's basket.
I do about half of my shopping on foot, but when I go to the market which for food is way better & cheaper I go by bike. When I have to carry heavier things I certainly prefer the bike, for example soil.
Ik fiets altijd naar mijn werk. Van Vleuten naar Utrecht. Stukje van niks, zo'n 3 km, heerlijk. Als ik met de auto ga ben ik langer onderweg. Sowieso is het in Nederland zo goed geregeld voor de fietsers 👍🏻
The fact that in a biking country where people bike everywhere they need to, they only bike 1000km a year is also impressive. It means things are close by. For comparison, my route for a fitness bike ride in an American suburb is 14km total. a 4km round trip to work on a bike sounds heavenly.
There are still improvements made in Amsterdam, now they are creating a ring around the center with "fietsstraten' . bikeroads: cyclepath so wide cars can join at low speed. Because there is good alternative for cars just outside this ring very few cars are on the bicycle main road. Now it is really easy to ride around the center instead of through it. The difference in cyclepaths with only 10 years ago is tremendous, It is not so long ago that a substantial part of cycle paths were made of concrete tiles which especially on busy spots became very bumpy, now allmost everything is in red asphalt, and they get wider and wider. Another thing I love is the system of signs with numbers, junctions have numbers and there is a map at every number. These signs are mainly for recreational cycling. Last weekend I have ridden 4 1/2 hours in Drenthe without any planning ahead, totally relaxed, deciding which way to go at every 'knot-point' with very low risk to get lost.
I never owned a car and don't intend to. People try to act like it's funny, but I like to breathе fresh air and to be fit. A bike is so much healthier than a car in any way you look at it. It is also more fun.
I've just made a cycling-trip along the Belgian, Southern England and Normandy coastline. I was glad to be back after two weeks... The French try to direct everyone to the Autoroute, the British towards the Motorway. It's often difficult not to end up on those - I did several hugely dangerous highway-kilometers around Dunkerk, in the dark and in the pouring rain, in order to get to a ferry. There was just no other road to be found... We're really privileged here.
Interesting statistics: It seems my average speed is a just little higher than that of the average Dutch cyclist (13.6 km/h) even though I ride a Brompton folding bicycle here in UK. Also, I have been slightly further in the year since I got that bike. (1333 km). I take some satisfaction from this information.... I am 74 years old, and have a replacement valve in my heart.
@@TiaMat99 Thank you for your enquiry. I do apologise for the delay in answering it: I cannot say that road safety for cyclists in UK reaches anything like Dutch standards.. but then, nowhere else does... not even Denmark. To keep myself safe here, I try to stay off shared routes with motor traffic. Whilst the number of exclusive cycling routes is increasing, slowly,, all of them just STOP at junctions with the motor road network... and relatively few of them make useful connections to where we need to go. This makes the longest of them leisure rides only. My least favourite cycling infrastructure in UK is the narrow painted-line "cycle lane" at the edge of a normal road. It encourages cars to pass closer than NO "lane" at all! Note: I have cycled around the villages to the north of Amsterdam, having taken a ferry across from Central Station. It was a guided cycle tour and the high spot of my whole Rhine cruise holiday.
@@timdowney6721 Nothing to do with fewer cars. Almost every grown up who drives a bike also drives a car. Cars all over the place here but roads and bicycle are most often seperated. Infra structure is much better here.
@@timdowney6721 better infrastructure More understanding from car drivers. Riding different bike (not MTB, but normal bikes in which you can sit straight,)
I wish I could ride this calm in Brazil's roads. We need to be always alert because of a plethora of problems: motorists at +80 km/h (wich isn't even considered fast here) who think their time is more important than your life; bad pavement with loose stones, nails and broken glass; robbers everywhere; and when there are bike lanes, it's nobody's land (everybody parks, drives, rides and walks there). A dutch's nightmare.
It's not a good thing to have 393 million guns. Just see what that causes; -school shooting at least every weak -mass shootings yearly -police shootings every day -robbery with guns every day
That looks like paradise, no helmets and exercise get a boost of endorphins = happier nation I'm sure.! Only thing puzzles me: how do you find a park amongst 12000 bike rack then find your bike again??
Depends on how drunk you are to find your bike again. But on a more serious note; it's like second nature to find your bike again. Also nowadays, I just take a picture if I park at a train station for a two weeks trip or so.
I often memorize where I put my bike by finding an easily recognizable spot to put it close to, though I will admit to almost losing my bike more than once because I didn't remember where I'd parked it
In the bigger facilities (like Utrecht Centraal) there are numbered rows and each bicycle rack also has it's own number. So you can either memorize it or make a picture
From 12 to 17 years old so 5years long i used to cycle 24km/day and a minimum of 201school days means 4824km/year. It was a normal city bike that weighed over 20kg too. And also i cycled to work after school and to friends. Take that americans!!!
I biked 25 miles (~40km) per day for a similar period as an American. When I worked it became more days per year. It was the safest place to bike I've ever lived in the US (I got hit 5 times in 4 years), and the shortest commute by bike I've ever had available by bike in the US, ESPECIALLY by ratio to driving distance. It was about 1.3 times the driving distance. Everywhere else I have lived required biking at LEAST 2 times as far as the drive was, and the last place I lived required biking 6 to 8 times as far (depending on whether you were willing to illegally do a short stretch on the highway/motorway). Currently before COVID-19 hit I was biking to work 3 time per week, because that's all my worn-out knees could manage between it being a much hillier commute and the fact that my commute is now 53km per day by bike. There is a war on cycling here - please don't be too stuck up when some cycling refugees move there. I really hope I can save up for it someday...
Also I also cycled everywhere for friends/shopping - although for me a weekend shopping trip was about 20km extra, so I NEVER did it as a separate trip from work. If I forgot to pick up an ingredient I just had a shitty meal. My bike was about equally heavy to yours. So don't brag too much - almost all American cycle commuters probably do more than that. On the flipside, it's nothing to brag about for either of us. Beyond a certain point it's just suffering and "bragging" about how awful your life is... Build your cycling life better. You have a lot more ability than us to do so
@@hngldr How does that compete? 'safest place to bike' and 'got hit 5 times in 4 years'? I've been in 1 bike accident in 43 years. How can you call 5 hits in 4 years safe?
@@ffortissimo I'm saying it's NOT safe, and that I'm jealous of how little he has to bike and how safe and nice of a place he has to bike in, and that if Americans had such nice and safe places to bike, we would bike just as much
In Slovakia, Trnava is developing it's cycling infrastructure, today we have approx. 20-30 km of separated cycle paths (there are plans for 100 more kms and also plans to connect Bratislava-Trnava and surrounding villages with a bike highway) and the first automated parking tower in Slovakia. Thanks Netherlands for inspiration :)
13km/h for e-bikes average speed? That doesn't sound right at all. If you'd say 13mph (which translates to ~20km/h) it sounds more sensible. Most people, on normal bikes, do about 15-20km/h I'd say. E-bikes 20-25km/h. Maybe the measurement includes waiting for traffic lights/standing still? In that case it doesn't really say much about cycling speed but rather traffic speed which is not a steady thing at all.
It sounds about right to me. I ride a dutch bike and rarely top 15kph. You are confusing the more sporty type of riders we have here to those who ride to get places, where speed is not a top concern.
Wouter post I think you are right. For a normal bike the average speed is at least 15kmh. And when you ride an e-bike it is definitely more I would say about 20kmh at least.
Elderly people on e-bikes don't ride that fast on their Leisure rides, they probably bring the avg speed down. Since they're probably the majorty of e-bike owners. But I agree, when i'm riding to work i do 20-25 km
Funny, I have an Ebike, since a year and a half, yea my average is clocked at 16.6 kph. However, that is over the life of the bike swiched on. Basically I have range of 180km per charge. Only use it on longer trips with motor switched on. Trips to the shops, and trips shorter than 15km my legs do the work, not the motor. Hence still pedal at a decent clip but since an accident I need to make sure to get where I wanted to go AND COME BACK. Thus Ebike...
@@Beun007 I think you really have a problem with the Netherlands, if you don't like it here, then get your ass out, we don't like people that are this negative.
@@TheChrisEMartin all bikes have at least 3 gears, most have 7-8 and many have up to 21. old skool bikes without gears are very very rare. Also these days 42% of sold bikes are electric (combination of human force and electric motor)
@@TheChrisEMartin the bikes a fine. They are just not the mountain/sport bikes you know. This "old fashioned" bike is not a head first kind of bike when you hit the brakes like a mountain bike. because we sit straight. Also it looks less ridiculous and ride better. And we rode a lot faster then 12.9. the number is so low because so many old people ride the normal bicycle.
i want to live in the country in which people use bicycle , talk with each other face to face rather than Mobile , have independence , human relations are respected and strong.....
Indian? If so, most Indians still talk face to face msot of the time (it may only feel so because you are surrounded by those people). Human relations too are strong and independence is more about being rid of poverty I guess in India. But I do get your point. All of these are diminishing indeed sadly.
I'm an American who is forced to choose between ride a bike to work or be unemployed. People like me who cannot drive due to handicaps but are otherwise still capable of locomotion and working a job are effectively discriminated against in car-dependent locations. The lack of any safe alternatives for those who are unable to drive (but otherwise would drive if they could) is like a building not having any ramps for wheelchairs.
You lucky bastards ! I am stuck over here in north america with the stink mobiles . The raised handle bars are the way to . I bought a stem post extension kit for the handlebar . Two was a good gel seat for comfort . I will have to go to the Netherlands soon .
Ik vind het echt veel meer milieubewuster. En helemaal niet voor minder bedeelde mensen 🤣 Het is juist leuk dat het voor iedereen is. Ongeacht je achtergrond of huidskleur 😁👍🏻👍👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
Hoogopgeleide mensen rijden vaker fiets in Amsterdam... Ik zou het erop houden dat inwoners van Amsterdam doorgaans hoog opgeleid zijn en daardoor zich een peperdure woning in Amsterdam KUNNEN permitteren. De noodzaak voor een auto in een compacte stad als Amsterdam is vervolgens nihil gezien de korte reisafstanden. Vaker fietsen is dus geen direct gevolg van het opleidingsniveau maar van de eigenschappen van de compacte stad.
I'm hoping my country will build special road for our daily cycling. If there is a special road to cycling from Bogor to Jakarta, I prefer use my bicycle for daily activity.
Well, he is Dutch. So am I. Frankly I don't care if anybody is referring to "Holland" when they actually mean "The Netherlands". As in: www.holland.com/be_nl/toerisme.htm ua-cam.com/video/_kWgb4KKnwI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/QkpmA2ueW6U/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/_NfnSgYqM4M/v-deo.html
12.4 km/hour average speed? What is this based on? When I cycle with my ordinary citybike without gears my average speed is around 20 km/hour. I think average speed of all people must be definitely higher than 12.4 km/hour and for e-bikes for sure above 20 km/hour.
Maybe for older people and recreational biking? I myself am also around 27 km/h when biking. But i do that since i have to get somewhere fast, whereas recreational biking is much more laid back?
inner city biking. You can already see that pretty much every one shown in the video is going relatively slow, then the elder and children that take their bikes for daily trips.
I wonder if the average speed is going up because of the ban of using your phone on the bike, since people often cycle a bit slower when they're on their phone
@@iamanironman4141 It's not a dumb rule, in traffic you should pay attention to traffic and not your phone. I got in a bicycle crash with a woman that didn't pay attention on the road and was only looking at here phone, I broke my collar bone because of this stupid woman.
here in Broward county in Florida, north of miami we almost Got a bike Lane on east west boulevards. they almost gave us one Lane. but we lost by one vote. one of the four lanes would of been for bicycles only. would of been 12 feet wide.
On the flip side my work is only 21 km from The Hague and it takes me a good 1h 10m by bike or 1h by public transport... and 23min by car. The average speed of public transport is 20 kph and ain't nobody gonna bike 20km when it's cold, windy and rainy (basically every day in the Netherlands). It's so bizarre that in an industrialized nation public transport is so ridiculously slow.
My work is 25 km away, about 20-25 minutes by car. By by bike and/or public transport it would easily be 1 hour or more. A no brainer to go by car. But..., if I could live 15 km away, I'd easily choose an e-bike, both for ease and my health ;-)
@@JohnBarrow1961 I think most people would take what makes the most sense. I used to bike to work because it was the most efficient method. Now that my work is only 800 meters away, I just walk.
Because of car makers and oil companies lobby. The US is a prime example, where capitalists and their lobby wins everytime over convenience and larger good for the society.
Only exceptions are children, tourists, people on road bikes, those learning and those more confident cycling using a helmet than not. There's probably more. I've never seen anyone laugh at others using a helmet, even on city bikes.
@@feladirr I did, many times. Sometimes they even get slaughtered or shot. And rightly so, those fucking helmet wearing crazy fuckedup pretentious bastards!!
Once I drove at my bike ( 25km/hr ++ or faster ) at night or late evening, a police - car driven came along riding, opened his window-shield by button, asked me if I was in a hurry .... I did say "Yes" I'm coming home to late .... He smiled and ask me to slow down ..... less then 25km/hr in town .... e-bikes top speed is 25km/hr .....
3:45 Utrecht 345.000 people: busiest street 33.000 bicycles/day Stockholm 1.000.000: busiest street ca 10.000 bicycles/day We have cold winters and more steep hills :-(
Of course the flat landscape helps a lot here but the weather is often far from perfect (rain, wind, cold etc). You can always prepare yourself for cold weather and train for steep hills, doesn't seem so hilly in Stockholm or am I wrong?
>"90% of bike trips are less than 7 km" How are trips defined? If you cycle to the store, do shopping, then cycle home, is this counted as 1 trip or 2 trips? ie: is this store 7km away, or 3.5km away?
but then if you told someone that you went to the store, and they asked "how long was your trip?", isn't the answer 14km? It was a 14km trip to the store and back, you definitely just cycled 14km, it feels weird to say it was only a 7km trip.
I think all of these stats come from the cycling apps (like endomondo) so only the user's habits decide how this is counted. If the user only pauses the app whille shopping it will be counted as one trip. But if the user decided to end it and then run again it will be obviously counted as 2 trips.
Grocery stores are rarely more than 3 km removed from neighborhoods, unless you have to go to a specific store on the other side of the town/city or a neighboring town/city. However, many people might visit multiple supermarkets/stores and/or combine their trips, like swinging by the grocery store or shopping area after work/school on their way home.
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A trip to Amsterdam in 2003 turned me into a cyclist for life. I have never owned a car and I live in the USA. Everyone will tell you it’s impossible. It is possible. The best benefit for me is reduced stress. Cycling is just more pleasant. Love your channel!
Justin Lee Miller amen there, also. Much CHEAPER THAN A CAR😋 I also don't own a car in case of bad weatehr/cold. I take public transportation. (employer pays 90% of bus card) 😊 I save nearly 1,200 a month by switching to not owning a car😂
Do you live in a flat area or maybe you use your bike only around your city? Come to Spain to deal with our hills even into cities, you will swear for an engine or at least an assisted e-bike. Only electric scooters have a future over here and not until you could find recharging points everywhere. For example I used to have my past jobs at around 15-20 kilometers which was rather hard bicycling considering the hills but now my job is 42 kilometers away (84 daily) and in order to get there I have not one but three mountain passes.
newhuskytwenty hey. It's okay. I live in such an area. In Stuttgart. E-Bike is fine. I love my bike(s).
You live in the US and you don’t own a car? I am shocked. Greetings to you all ua-cam.com/video/pyvlzdFRG4I/v-deo.html
Justin Lee Miller for us Dutch it's just easier not more fun
We had to take the bike of my grandma away because she is 85 years old and wouldn’t stop riding the bicycle. It became unsafe for her to participate in traffic. But that just shows how integrated our bicycles are in our culture
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You would have likely had to take the car keys from her much sooner. So, the bike allowed her to be more independent for that time.
That's it. Infrastructure. We need infrastructure that's more friendly for bikes. Without that, most cyclists won't feel comfortable on the road.
And they had to fight tooth and nail for it because, like in North America, they had people whining every step of the way. Good thing nobody listened to the naysayers. It's going to be a long road, but hopefully NA ends up like this in the end too.
Which proves that the Dutch are wiser than many other nations in that respect. People need cleaner cities and healthier bodies, two things which cycling can provide.
yeah you can't virtually see any obese on the road
Cars run on gas, bikes run on fat! Someone forgot to tell my ass though...
I hope the future in Canadian cities looks more and more like the Dutch cities. Cycling is quiet, affordable, good for personal fitness, good for public health, and a ton of fun. All this electric car stuff may be a necessary improvement for environmental reasons, but within cities, cycling has way more benefits to offer to civilization. Hooray for the Netherlands, leading the way. And thanks for this channel, eh? From Canada.
2:38 Darth Vader walking down the street.. :)
- All of them wear no helmets
- No special riding gear, normal street clothes
- They are all using comfortable sit-up and city touring bikes
It is a mistake to only market specialised, overspecs items and make people buying products they don't need. Such examples are high-tech off-road bikes with 28 gears, or 5 kg racers, or brake systems that can make the bicycle flip over with two fingers operation, or forcing people to wear helmets and extra equipment.
That's my address to the bicycle industry. Look at the above. This is business, not a few enthusiast only.
Part of the reason of lack of uptake in the UK is exactly your last point, the perception that is only for the enthusiast or well equipped.
An expensive hobby for enthusiasts, that has become of it in many countries. Not an economical (and healthy) form of every day transportation for short distances, as what it should be. The same happened before to motorcycles.
Why would you need special riding gear on a bicycle?
Well they are in several countries in the process of manipulating people to believe that only this ensures their survival.
You can buy better cyclings here but we only buy whats needed
I cycle 47 km a day, so 47x201 (schooldays) makes 9.447 km a year. Means that I cycle around the world in about 4 years 😂
Bravo Holland! I've been commuting to work on my bike for the last 3 years. Every day all year round, regardless of the weather. Love it. Greetings from Poland
I used to cycle to secundary/high school every day all year, which was 10km away. So 100km a week, and I went to that school for 6 years. So I cycled halfway around the world in those years XD (100x40x6=24000) I miss those days, I could eat whatever I want and not gain any weight, and cycling was so easy because of all the muscle I built up.
I've been in Ireland for the past 3 years, and I really miss cycling. I can and do cycle here, but it's more a sport than a way of getting somewhere, because of the hills, the distances between towns and lack of cycle lanes. Just 2 more months until I'm reunited with my Dutch bike and the cycle lanes, yay :D
I did the same in high school. Bike was faster than the bus. I really miss eating everything and my muscular legs.
AnataWaDareDesuKa those numbers don't add up..
now a days I do 30km per day to school :D 30x5=150x40=6000km per year... and that for 4 years now so 6000x4= 24000km and i love it.
We hire dutch bikes on our greek summer holiday in zakynthos,
They are soo much fun. . De stresser for sure 😀
22.5 million bicycles, zero helmets
but no deaths
in 2017 there were more deaths in cycling accidents that in cars. not sure how many were head injury related.
Edit: Here is the article by Bicycle Dutch,
bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/more-cycling-fatalities-than-deaths-in-cars/
No dumbass speed cyclists...
@@Chorizosabroso it was the first time ever though, and probably counting electric bikes, which are more dangerous as people are less adjusted to them. And while 6 yo ride their bikes, you need to be 18 for a car... But I think the main factor was that the number of car deaths went down, so that is a good thing.
There only cruising around not doing dumb stuff. I think its okay as long as there actually careful witch they are probably beyond that since they've been doing it for so long
I think it's no small coincidence that you barely see an overweight person in this video. Cycling does so much for the health of a nation that I can't believe there is so much hostility directed at people on bikes in my country (which has an obesity epidemic)
A car gives you road rage. A bike when the infrastructure is done right relaxes you.
@@evl457 Yes it does help. Not moving and stuffing your face is bad we know that, thank you. :-))
Also, fat people are too lazy to ride a bicycle.
I love how the Dutch ride their bikes.
What's so special about it?
Same. Normal people riding normally with their luggage/bags etc doing their thing, travelling. In the UK there's always sports cyclists in full lycra and helmets and goggles with some mountain type bicycle.
Not aero
Irrelevance 😂 hahaha
@@Pleezath it's because they prefer cycling rather than riding a motorcycle or a car unlike other countries.
Some countries would rather get a loan for a car or a motorcycle because they don't like cycling and it's easier to be ridden.
Beautiful shots of Amersfoort!! Not many UA-camrs have discovered my city
Bicycles outnumbering cars, now that's something I want to see everywhere
Your country is an example to the rest of the world in doing it right. Thanks for sharing the information. Your various videos really drive home in a good way what it could be like with a better bicycle infrastructure. Living in Canada I moved from a small city that was just barely looking at making it better for bicycles to a another small city that has moved towards trails and roads that make bicycling better. It is like night and day. I realize that we have some disadvantages here in Canada with poorly laid out cities and winters that can be severe in places but not everywhere and not everyday. If governments are really wanting to do something on green house gases, roadway infrastructure problems, insurance claims (the list goes on and on) then they should be seriously pushing to give precedence to bicycle infrastructure incentives for every city.
"some disadvantages here with vast distances between cities" Well, just start with the daily groceries shopping ! Because I guess that your supermarket isn't in another city ? And going shopping is (after going to school and work) what "we" (the Dutch) mostly use our bikes for.
With daily groceries I mean just milk bread fruit and vegetables, stuff you want daily fresh. It also helps that we have small packaging for most products. I have been to Canada in the early 90's and I was 'shocked' about the size of product packaging ! 1 gallon was the smallest can of milk I could find...... that's enough for a month..... Everything was mega sized and if that's still going on today, yes, then shopping by bike can be a real challenge !!
I don't know where you were buying your products here in Canada but we always have had small containers. People here buy in bulk because the merchants have made the price for small items really expensive. Therefore the more you buy the cheaper it is. So there is more bulk items around. As far of riding a bicycle to the store for an item rather than a car is a mind set that is very slow to change here. There seems to be a general mentality to have to get everything done immediately so the bicycle is seen as a inconvenience.
It was one of those mega store concepts, I don't know the exact name anymore.
In the 90's my parents and I hired a huge camper and made an ultimate/epic tour around the Rocky Mountains.
Starting at our Canadian family home in Richmond Vancouver I remember we went to (almost) all places between Seattle to Calgary. Nairn falls, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper National Park, Harrison Hot spring resort , Othello tunnels, Golden, Kamloops lake, Victoria, Butchart Gardens, Whistler, Edmonton, Vancouver Island.
Just to name a few places in our 30 (30 !!!) days trip. We did all the tourist stuff, and shot more than 100 rolls of slides and photo's !! (this was way before digital photo)
It was the most beautiful vacation ever ! (and the absolute most expensive)
PS, what I remember the most was this, after landing in United States Seattle the first thing we heard on the airport was, "How much money do you have and when are you going back?"..... also when we got slightly lost (no GPS in the 90's) nobody would tell the way unless we paid them..... But at the Canadian border the first thing we heard was "Welcome to Canada, we hope you will have a fantastic holiday and here's a free local road map" ......what a difference !
ty m dutch
Steve, with the poorly laid out cities. Come and look at some of the old cities in the Netherlands, they are a nightmare. But not for cyclists. They changed many inner cities to cycle and pedestrian only.
i go by bike to school, its 11km to get there since i live in the countryside. so i bike 22km per day when its a school day.
How long does it take you to bike?
@@Prettype4rls to school it takes me around 35/45 minutes at a normal speed of like 17km/h and when i bike rlly hard at like 25km/h it takes me 25/30/35 min depending on the like air forces (i forgot whats it called)
1,3 bikes per person?
If the bikes become sentient and declare war on humans, you guys are screwed.
O my, I never thought of that. I have two in the shed, for all I know they're mating.
I'm moving to Iceland!
@@mourlyvold7655 .They don’t have bikes in Iceland?
@@OP-1000 aaargh! We're doomed!
I was going to say "I'd like to see a bike hold a gun" but then I started wondering how you'd shoot a bike
😂😂
What all these videos forget to mention is that many people WALKS to the shops. A bicycle is not needed when the shops are 550 meters away. This holds for many people.
Well the point of these videos is advocating more people to use bicycles instead of cars. Walking is an even better option of course. But I find it more practical and faster to carry groceries in my bike's basket.
I do about half of my shopping on foot, but when I go to the market which for food is way better & cheaper I go by bike. When I have to carry heavier things I certainly prefer the bike, for example soil.
Ik fiets altijd naar mijn werk. Van Vleuten naar Utrecht.
Stukje van niks, zo'n 3 km, heerlijk. Als ik met de auto ga ben ik langer onderweg.
Sowieso is het in Nederland zo goed geregeld voor de fietsers 👍🏻
The fact that in a biking country where people bike everywhere they need to, they only bike 1000km a year is also impressive. It means things are close by. For comparison, my route for a fitness bike ride in an American suburb is 14km total. a 4km round trip to work on a bike sounds heavenly.
There are still improvements made in Amsterdam, now they are creating a ring around the center with "fietsstraten' . bikeroads: cyclepath so wide cars can join at low speed. Because there is good alternative for cars just outside this ring very few cars are on the bicycle main road.
Now it is really easy to ride around the center instead of through it.
The difference in cyclepaths with only 10 years ago is tremendous, It is not so long ago that a substantial part of cycle paths were made of concrete tiles which especially on busy spots became very bumpy, now allmost everything is in red asphalt, and they get wider and wider.
Another thing I love is the system of signs with numbers, junctions have numbers and there is a map at every number. These signs are mainly for recreational cycling.
Last weekend I have ridden 4 1/2 hours in Drenthe without any planning ahead, totally relaxed, deciding which way to go at every 'knot-point' with very low risk to get lost.
the footage on this video is great.
This is one of the reasons why the Dutch are the most content and fit people in the world.
I never owned a car and don't intend to. People try to act like it's funny, but I like to breathе fresh air and to be fit. A bike is so much healthier than a car in any way you look at it. It is also more fun.
The Dutch are fit and healthy because they cycle everyday.
Absolutely fantastic cycle network amazing i love the dutch way of thinking
I've just made a cycling-trip along the Belgian, Southern England and Normandy coastline. I was glad to be back after two weeks... The French try to direct everyone to the Autoroute, the British towards the Motorway. It's often difficult not to end up on those - I did several hugely dangerous highway-kilometers around Dunkerk, in the dark and in the pouring rain, in order to get to a ferry. There was just no other road to be found... We're really privileged here.
Wie gaat er nou vrijwillig naar België...
@@Saartje05 nou ja.
Interesting statistics: It seems my average speed is a just little higher than that of the average Dutch cyclist (13.6 km/h) even though I ride a Brompton folding bicycle here in UK. Also, I have been slightly further in the year since I got that bike. (1333 km). I take some satisfaction from this information.... I am 74 years old, and have a replacement valve in my heart.
Well, you're doing better than this 34 year old Dutchie! How do you find road safety there?
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@@TiaMat99 Thank you for your enquiry. I do apologise for the delay in answering it:
I cannot say that road safety for cyclists in UK reaches anything like Dutch standards.. but then, nowhere else does... not even Denmark.
To keep myself safe here, I try to stay off shared routes with motor traffic. Whilst the number of exclusive cycling routes is increasing, slowly,, all of them just STOP at junctions with the motor road network... and relatively few of them make useful connections to where we need to go. This makes the longest of them leisure rides only.
My least favourite cycling infrastructure in UK is the narrow painted-line "cycle lane" at the edge of a normal road. It encourages cars to pass closer than NO "lane" at all!
Note: I have cycled around the villages to the north of Amsterdam, having taken a ferry across from Central Station. It was a guided cycle tour and the high spot of my whole Rhine cruise holiday.
Dutchie: no helmet
Americun: BUT THATS ILLEGAL
Rik L
Fewer cars = less chance of being injured.
@@timdowney6721 Nothing to do with fewer cars. Almost every grown up who drives a bike also drives a car. Cars all over the place here but roads and bicycle are most often seperated. Infra structure is much better here.
@@Linda-hs1lk Exactly.
@@timdowney6721 better infrastructure
More understanding from car drivers.
Riding different bike (not MTB, but normal bikes in which you can sit straight,)
I wish I could ride this calm in Brazil's roads. We need to be always alert because of a plethora of problems: motorists at +80 km/h (wich isn't even considered fast here) who think their time is more important than your life; bad pavement with loose stones, nails and broken glass; robbers everywhere; and when there are bike lanes, it's nobody's land (everybody parks, drives, rides and walks there). A dutch's nightmare.
I like to imagine the grinch invading the Netherlands at night to steal all their bicycles.
The Germans did that in WWII.
Inspiring. We're only light years behind you in the U.S.
Medium Rick Light years are a measurement of distance, specifically, the distance light travels in vacuum in a year.
The bicycles need to be upgraded to be able to handle all your obese people
In the USA there are 323 million people and we have 393 million guns...So theres that.
It's not a good thing to have 393 million guns. Just see what that causes;
-school shooting at least every weak
-mass shootings yearly
-police shootings every day
-robbery with guns every day
We'll catch up with them in about 12 parsecs.
That looks like paradise, no helmets and exercise get a boost of endorphins = happier nation I'm sure.!
Only thing puzzles me: how do you find a park amongst 12000 bike rack then find your bike again??
Depends on how drunk you are to find your bike again.
But on a more serious note; it's like second nature to find your bike again. Also nowadays, I just take a picture if I park at a train station for a two weeks trip or so.
I often memorize where I put my bike by finding an easily recognizable spot to put it close to, though I will admit to almost losing my bike more than once because I didn't remember where I'd parked it
In the bigger facilities (like Utrecht Centraal) there are numbered rows and each bicycle rack also has it's own number. So you can either memorize it or make a picture
Do you forget where you parked your car? No? It's no different for a bike.
wow I need to move there
Happy New Bicycle Year!
A happy and safe, healthy and cycling New Year to you!
From 12 to 17 years old so 5years long i used to cycle 24km/day and a minimum of 201school days means 4824km/year. It was a normal city bike that weighed over 20kg too. And also i cycled to work after school and to friends. Take that americans!!!
Zozo petje af hoor
I biked 25 miles (~40km) per day for a similar period as an American. When I worked it became more days per year.
It was the safest place to bike I've ever lived in the US (I got hit 5 times in 4 years), and the shortest commute by bike I've ever had available by bike in the US, ESPECIALLY by ratio to driving distance. It was about 1.3 times the driving distance. Everywhere else I have lived required biking at LEAST 2 times as far as the drive was, and the last place I lived required biking 6 to 8 times as far (depending on whether you were willing to illegally do a short stretch on the highway/motorway).
Currently before COVID-19 hit I was biking to work 3 time per week, because that's all my worn-out knees could manage between it being a much hillier commute and the fact that my commute is now 53km per day by bike.
There is a war on cycling here - please don't be too stuck up when some cycling refugees move there. I really hope I can save up for it someday...
Also I also cycled everywhere for friends/shopping - although for me a weekend shopping trip was about 20km extra, so I NEVER did it as a separate trip from work. If I forgot to pick up an ingredient I just had a shitty meal.
My bike was about equally heavy to yours.
So don't brag too much - almost all American cycle commuters probably do more than that.
On the flipside, it's nothing to brag about for either of us. Beyond a certain point it's just suffering and "bragging" about how awful your life is...
Build your cycling life better. You have a lot more ability than us to do so
@@hngldr How does that compete? 'safest place to bike' and 'got hit 5 times in 4 years'?
I've been in 1 bike accident in 43 years. How can you call 5 hits in 4 years safe?
@@ffortissimo I'm saying it's NOT safe, and that I'm jealous of how little he has to bike and how safe and nice of a place he has to bike in, and that if Americans had such nice and safe places to bike, we would bike just as much
I will move to Nederland❤️about 4 years🥰
I wish i could too
What a beautiful world... I hope one time we will have these numbers too.
Nederland is het beste fietsland ter wereld!
In Slovakia, Trnava is developing it's cycling infrastructure, today we have approx. 20-30 km of separated cycle paths (there are plans for 100 more kms and also plans to connect Bratislava-Trnava and surrounding villages with a bike highway) and the first automated parking tower in Slovakia. Thanks Netherlands for inspiration :)
13km/h for e-bikes average speed? That doesn't sound right at all. If you'd say 13mph (which translates to ~20km/h) it sounds more sensible. Most people, on normal bikes, do about 15-20km/h I'd say. E-bikes 20-25km/h. Maybe the measurement includes waiting for traffic lights/standing still? In that case it doesn't really say much about cycling speed but rather traffic speed which is not a steady thing at all.
It sounds about right to me. I ride a dutch bike and rarely top 15kph. You are confusing the more sporty type of riders we have here to those who ride to get places, where speed is not a top concern.
Average speed for an e-bike is a bit higher. More around 17km/h but up to 25km/h
Wouter post I think you are right. For a normal bike the average speed is at least 15kmh. And when you ride an e-bike it is definitely more I would say about 20kmh at least.
Elderly people on e-bikes don't ride that fast on their Leisure rides, they probably bring the avg speed down. Since they're probably the majorty of e-bike owners. But I agree, when i'm riding to work i do 20-25 km
Funny, I have an Ebike, since a year and a half, yea my average is clocked at 16.6 kph. However, that is over the life of the bike swiched on. Basically I have range of 180km per charge. Only use it on longer trips with motor switched on. Trips to the shops, and trips shorter than 15km my legs do the work, not the motor. Hence still pedal at a decent clip but since an accident I need to make sure to get where I wanted to go AND COME BACK. Thus Ebike...
Holland is a bike heaven.
In the USA there are 323 million people and we have 393 million guns...So theres that.
Look at the video you see the need for guns? :)
And a lot killings .
@@paulm1704 So you didn't get it . . . . . right? :-))
You could have panniers for those. 😎
bikes don't kill people...etc..
I want to live there too. For my children is a perfect place to grow up.
@@Beun007 I think you really have a problem with the Netherlands, if you don't like it here, then get your ass out, we don't like people that are this negative.
Beun007 God heb je een klein pikkie of zo
@@brozius I think he is trying to put off people into move to the Netherlands.
It is.
Safer traffic, safer schools and all the culture and history of Europe within a day or two of driving(or a 3hr flight).
The Netherlands is AWESOME, safe to ride your bike aswell.
Great inspiration for other cities, cycling is the solution to many problems. Happy cycling 2018!
And not a single helmet ⛑
That’s freaking awesome!
That's because the bikes are so old fashioned, there are practically no gears and they all cycle slowly...
@@TheChrisEMartin all bikes have at least 3 gears, most have 7-8 and many have up to 21. old skool bikes without gears are very very rare. Also these days 42% of sold bikes are electric (combination of human force and electric motor)
The Dutch are on average the tallest people on earth.
The Dutch don't wear helmets.
Conclusion: Wearing helmets stunts your growth.
@@TheChrisEMartin the bikes a fine. They are just not the mountain/sport bikes you know.
This "old fashioned" bike is not a head first kind of bike when you hit the brakes like a mountain bike. because we sit straight.
Also it looks less ridiculous and ride better.
And we rode a lot faster then 12.9. the number is so low because so many old people ride the normal bicycle.
@@TheChrisEMartin They are not old fashioned, they are built to be slow and comfortable.
Cheers.. to another 10 years and more
My favorite UA-cam channel
Fantastic! Happy 2018 Mark. :)
I want to move to Netherland just because I like cycling
Stroopwafels are a good reason too.
@@mourlyvold7655 If you like them!
@@mariadebake5483 Blasphemy! 😉
@@mourlyvold7655 🤗🤗
great perspective, during covid19, I see more and more people cycling in USA now, but still mostly for exercise
i want to live in the country in which people use bicycle , talk with each other face to face rather than Mobile , have independence , human relations are respected and strong.....
Indian? If so, most Indians still talk face to face msot of the time (it may only feel so because you are surrounded by those people). Human relations too are strong and independence is more about being rid of poverty I guess in India.
But I do get your point. All of these are diminishing indeed sadly.
Images of Amersfoort, good start of the video!!
This is like bicycle heaven.
This looks like heaven to me.
-An American (who wishes he could ride his bike to work)
I'm an American who is forced to choose between ride a bike to work or be unemployed. People like me who cannot drive due to handicaps but are otherwise still capable of locomotion and working a job are effectively discriminated against in car-dependent locations. The lack of any safe alternatives for those who are unable to drive (but otherwise would drive if they could) is like a building not having any ramps for wheelchairs.
You lucky bastards ! I am stuck over here in north america with the stink mobiles . The raised handle bars are the way to . I bought a stem post extension kit for the handlebar . Two was a good gel seat for comfort . I will have to go to the Netherlands soon .
I live in a smaller town. And I'm a minor. I use a bicycle 100% of my trips lmao
Ik vind het echt veel meer milieubewuster. En helemaal niet voor minder bedeelde mensen 🤣
Het is juist leuk dat het voor iedereen is. Ongeacht je achtergrond of huidskleur 😁👍🏻👍👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
@@nathalieverheij2308 Mijn vertrouwen in de jeugd is geheel hersteld! The future is bright!
Goed bezig, meiden!
Bike riding is fun
Hoogopgeleide mensen rijden vaker fiets in Amsterdam... Ik zou het erop houden dat inwoners van Amsterdam doorgaans hoog opgeleid zijn en daardoor zich een peperdure woning in Amsterdam KUNNEN permitteren. De noodzaak voor een auto in een compacte stad als Amsterdam is vervolgens nihil gezien de korte reisafstanden. Vaker fietsen is dus geen direct gevolg van het opleidingsniveau maar van de eigenschappen van de compacte stad.
www.parool.nl/nieuws/met-hun-fietsen-tonen-hogeropgeleiden-hoe-goed-ze-het-hebben~baab4da0/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.nl%2F
2:38 Neo?
Your videos are excellent
I'm hoping my country will build special road for our daily cycling.
If there is a special road to cycling from Bogor to Jakarta, I prefer use my bicycle for daily activity.
I live now in the Netherlands and we we're taken ,in the 50''s,to school with betjaks.Cool!
@@erikloupias7642 very nice experience.
Amazing!
I love it, love it, love it. Put the fun between your legs and enjoy freedom in it's purest form!!
Well I'm certain this comment can not be taken out of context is any way!
Healthier and more eco-friendly in every way for everyone, and basically just as safe.
They have the best cycle path in the world
Finally, a video who knows the actual name of the country.
Well, he is Dutch. So am I. Frankly I don't care if anybody is referring to "Holland" when they actually mean "The Netherlands". As in:
www.holland.com/be_nl/toerisme.htm
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ua-cam.com/video/QkpmA2ueW6U/v-deo.html
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Very Inspiring.
The infrastructure is something we can only dream from here in Vienna/Austria
i have an orig. dutch Holland bike
it looks like an classy old black car and goes like a Rolls Roys :D
Sounds like an omafiets, I prefer lighter more maneouvrable bikes, but an omafiets is really durable
Yep, omafiets (grandma bike).
It takes me 20-25 minutes to cycle to my school that is 6.5 km away. So my speed is like 19 km/h. I’m fast!
In Ireland I reach over 70km/h on my route every day
I have exactly same distance to school and take exactly the same time. Although for the way back it’s less because there’s a big downhill.
12.4 km/hour average speed? What is this based on? When I cycle with my ordinary citybike without gears my average speed is around 20 km/hour. I think average speed of all people must be definitely higher than 12.4 km/hour and for e-bikes for sure above 20 km/hour.
Maybe for older people and recreational biking? I myself am also around 27 km/h when biking. But i do that since i have to get somewhere fast, whereas recreational biking is much more laid back?
Don't forget very young children that decrease the average speed. Most five year olds ride well below 12,4 km/h for example.
@@PGraveDigger1 ah yes ofcourse, i didnt take them into account.
inner city biking. You can already see that pretty much every one shown in the video is going relatively slow, then the elder and children that take their bikes for daily trips.
All the starting and stopping and getting on and off your bike is bringing down the average.
Cycling will be certainly the most favorite habit of all the people in the world.
Another reason why there is lots of cycling is that it it pretty flat.
True. But we have very strong winds too
I wonder if the average speed is going up because of the ban of using your phone on the bike, since people often cycle a bit slower when they're on their phone
There are actually cycle speed limits in the Netherlands, within city limits you cannot go faster then 30 kph, in the outer limits you can go 40 kph.
People actually listening to that rule? Plenty of cops have passed me while I had my phone out. They don't really care. It's a dumb rule anyway
@@iamanironman4141 It's not a dumb rule, in traffic you should pay attention to traffic and not your phone. I got in a bicycle crash with a woman that didn't pay attention on the road and was only looking at here phone, I broke my collar bone because of this stupid woman.
@@iamanironman4141 nobody here is listening to that rule even in car they see only there phone see it daily.
my avarage speed on a bike is around 18km an hour. But the trips I make are also between 15-25 minutes
That's the kind of bicycle I prefer, the cruiser style where you sit comfortably upright.
So jealous. Here in Spain it seems that freedom lives in a car
Same in Germany :'(
how is it that they cruise so long when its one speed
@@raybon7939 The Netherlands is very flat .Ideal for cycling.
here in Broward county in Florida, north of miami
we almost Got a bike Lane on east west boulevards.
they almost gave us one Lane. but we lost by one vote. one of
the four lanes would of been for bicycles only. would of been 12 feet wide.
You forgot one thing: NL also has the biggest underwater parking lot for bikes, just next to the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal and the Oude Gracht 😁
Cool video
Wow I want to live there. Hawai could learn from the Dutch. Please teach our mayor how you did this.
On the flip side my work is only 21 km from The Hague and it takes me a good 1h 10m by bike or 1h by public transport... and 23min by car. The average speed of public transport is 20 kph and ain't nobody gonna bike 20km when it's cold, windy and rainy (basically every day in the Netherlands). It's so bizarre that in an industrialized nation public transport is so ridiculously slow.
I am Dutch. And my work is 20 km away. And I do cycle when it's cold, windy and rainy … on an "opa" fiets with a back pedal break and no gears.
I ride everyday to work, even in rain and storms, hail once in a while, from 0 to 40 degrees. You either ride or you don't, days off are for sooks.
My work is 25 km away, about 20-25 minutes by car. By by bike and/or public transport it would easily be 1 hour or more. A no brainer to go by car. But..., if I could live 15 km away, I'd easily choose an e-bike, both for ease and my health ;-)
Why no road bikes in this video?
@@tesmith47 They're banned in the city, if you ride one you get shot. :-)
Less air polution
+ less noise.
I own 3 bicycles. Two for commuting on a daily basis and one racer for the weekends.
I'm Dutch and I recently decided that cycling to work wasn't worth it anymore. I'm walking now.
What about cycling wasn't worth it?
@@JohnBarrow1961 I think most people would take what makes the most sense. I used to bike to work because it was the most efficient method. Now that my work is only 800 meters away, I just walk.
Why don't the rest of the world have this as a goal?! 🙄🙄🙄
Because of car makers and oil companies lobby. The US is a prime example, where capitalists and their lobby wins everytime over convenience and larger good for the society.
@@red-zi7fg Short answer: Capitalism 😅
Please send me one old used bike ? From ethiopia
Fantastic!!!
It would have been nice if you put the name of the place in the lower right corner. There are some places I want to go to, even without a bicycle :-)
All these clips made in summer time? Can you do the same on a winter day??
He did. ua-cam.com/users/markenleisearch?query=winter
ua-cam.com/video/HvcJTqbiljE/v-deo.html
Here is a winter clip.
Of course you can do this on a winter day! Why shouldn't you?
If you wear a bicycle helmet in the netherlands you're basically sure to be laughed at. The only exceptions are children and tourists
Only children and speed cyclists, tourists get laughed at
Only exceptions are children, tourists, people on road bikes, those learning and those more confident cycling using a helmet than not. There's probably more. I've never seen anyone laugh at others using a helmet, even on city bikes.
@@feladirr I did, many times. Sometimes they even get slaughtered or shot. And rightly so, those fucking helmet wearing crazy fuckedup pretentious bastards!!
It's a wonderful thing - a sign of what every other country can achieve with the will and government to do so
can you get a ticket for speeding on the bike lane in the netherlands? how fast do you have to be for a ticket?
More then 30 Km per hour in city limits and 45 Km in outer city limits
Once I drove at my bike ( 25km/hr ++ or faster ) at night or late evening, a police - car driven came along riding, opened his window-shield by button, asked me if I was in a hurry .... I did say "Yes" I'm coming home to late .... He smiled and ask me to slow down ..... less then 25km/hr in town .... e-bikes top speed is 25km/hr .....
Never heard of a speeding ticket for biking. How are you supposed to know what your speed is?
Imagine 72,000 extra cars in traffic with no place to park.
Imagine a million bikes at the station and your train just about to depart :P
@@nicjansen230 Well then you should have cycled faster to get on the station earlier to get a parkingspot, and then RUN!
@@nicjansen230 Then you left your home too late.
@@Saartje05 Yes, indeed, great observation... now what?
@@nicjansen230 Take the car . . . . . . . .
I am American, but I would really love to move here
From which American country do you come from?
The United States of fascism.
@@pavanatanaya So, welcome to the most Dem's paradise The Netherlands!
Beun007 be more specific please
@@pavanatanaya forget about Beun007, he's an idiot.
3:45 Utrecht 345.000 people: busiest street 33.000 bicycles/day
Stockholm 1.000.000: busiest street ca 10.000 bicycles/day
We have cold winters and more steep hills :-(
Spikes and Ebikes. Or training.
Of course the flat landscape helps a lot here but the weather is often far from perfect (rain, wind, cold etc). You can always prepare yourself for cold weather and train for steep hills, doesn't seem so hilly in Stockholm or am I wrong?
I recognise that street in the thumbnail! It’s Utrecht ❤️
Goed gedaan!
How does a 1.3 bike per person look like
Plus one more tire.
@@erichaheidrich4593 Good one 🤣👍
In all seriousness, it's like the houses that have 3 cars for 2 people, just that the extra bike costs a fraction of what the extra car entails.
>"90% of bike trips are less than 7 km"
How are trips defined? If you cycle to the store, do shopping, then cycle home, is this counted as 1 trip or 2 trips?
ie: is this store 7km away, or 3.5km away?
roidroid I am pretty sure that a ride from home to the shop and back equals two trips, so the shop is 7 km away.
but then if you told someone that you went to the store, and they asked "how long was your trip?", isn't the answer 14km? It was a 14km trip to the store and back, you definitely just cycled 14km, it feels weird to say it was only a 7km trip.
roidroid Yes, but in traffic engineering, trips are defined as moving from one location to another and 7 km is very reasonable for one trip.
I think all of these stats come from the cycling apps (like endomondo) so only the user's habits decide how this is counted. If the user only pauses the app whille shopping it will be counted as one trip. But if the user decided to end it and then run again it will be obviously counted as 2 trips.
Grocery stores are rarely more than 3 km removed from neighborhoods, unless you have to go to a specific store on the other side of the town/city or a neighboring town/city. However, many people might visit multiple supermarkets/stores and/or combine their trips, like swinging by the grocery store or shopping area after work/school on their way home.
My electric bike of 25km/hr has arrived 5000km+ into 10 month .... so close to 6000km/year ..... all weather ....