Bicycle Anecdotes From Amsterdam
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Here we present our final -- and most informative -- Streetfilm from Amsterdam. It provides a nice cross-section of commentary on life in the City of Bikes. If you'd like to skip directly to a certain section, use this table of contents: 0:17 Rejecting the Automobile 2:15 A bike system that works for everyone 4:05 There's a science to what looks like "bicycle chaos" 5:55 Coming to The Netherlands from the United States 7:33 Dutch Bicycle Culture Make sure you check out our other Streetfilms from Amsterdam: No Amsterdam is Not "Swamped" By Bikes, Amsterdam Draws Bike Boxes to Organize Bike Parking, and Some Things You Might See While In Amsterdam. I still find it amazing that a five-year-old in Amsterdam can ride straighter and with more confidence than the average American adult!
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Some of this information is just wrong. That some Dutch cyclists don't indicate direction and it just works is wrong. It's true that many don't, but it also causes accidents.
That it looks like chaos is because it's chaos.
You can't romanticize it because the Dutch also cause accidents neglecting traffic rules. Often.
Perhaps I am biased because I use a road bike and go twice as fast as the average cyclist here, but cyclists not indicating direction has quite often led to a near-helmet-test experience for me. It doesn't 'just work'. -
So funny to me that Americans see no street lights as weird when we haven't had them in my country for decades.:D
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Wonderful video.
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I'm not asking for a cycling utopia like this but the British national lottery funded the Olympic cycling team to the tune of 30 million pounds, they won many medals at Rio 2016 - an amazing achievement. Yet still cycling in Britain is viewed as a hobby for tour de France wannabes, hippies, hipsters and fashionistas. There's virtually no commuting infrastructure for cyclists anywhere except for Cambridge (the nearest the UK gets to the Netherlands). There's absolutely no way that the madness Londoners have the guts to call their cycle super highways could ever be classed as a safe option!
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I like how the tram stopped for the bicyclists. They tram may have had the right of way, but he was careful. Something that tram operators here in the US don't seem to be.
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Haha, I absolutely love the part of naming the Amsterdam cyclists as anarchistic at 7.40 and that being showed perfectly by a few cyclists able to let a tram(!) stop in favour of them
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Who are those who drive cars in Amsterdam? Are those from other towns or people who live in suburb of Amsterdam?
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Definitely my new favourite Dutch-bicycle video :-)
Love the part in the video called "There's a science to what looks like "bicycle chaos"" at 4:07.
Especially the part at 5:05 where this American man tells: ".. it does look like chaos, but in the end it all works... everybody does what they're supposed to do. Actually when you see something nót working here, then I would say, 9 out of 10 times it's because it's a tourist on a bike." hahaha. True!
What Marc van Woudenberg says about culture and subculture at 8:48.. perfect explanation. Love it.
Finally, 5-year old Pascal at the end of the video.. cute! -
It's not true that the Dutch don't notice their unique bike culture. In fact they are proud of it!
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great city for all bikers !!!
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I liked a lot seeing all these people cycling. It was so less noisy, less congested. I come from India but live in North America. India is moving towards car culture with hardly any space for all those cars or traffic coutseys. India used to have cycling culture too 3-4 decades back. North America has sprawl concept. Everything is so far off that I can't think of doing that without my car, but also due to my lack of effort n will to cycle and lack of dedicated cycling lanes throughout the cities.
I am amazed how much space can be saved, pollution decreased, have a physically active lifestyle while doing chores rather than wasting an hour or two running on treadmill when I can cyle to the store or work. Kudos to the Dutch. -
Amazing how the Safety Nazis leap to the front and pick the slightest thing for every video posted on Youtube. How soon before we will refuse to leave the "safety" of our houses and participate in any activity due to the inherit danger?
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HELMETS! Guess they go so slow...
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When I was still in secondary school I used to read my books while cycling to school...
Later after I discovered that other Dutch thing I was rolling (and obviously smoking) while I was cycling my mountainbike.... -
But now your "good shot" became a bad one.
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No offence to these Americans living here, like the beardy guy mr. Cutler it is I believe, but a Dutch person, born and raised on a bike would never ever let a child of 5 years or so (on such a tiny bike) cycle on the side where the cars are driving (on the outside as we call it, but the child must be on the inside (de "binnenkant" as we call it) so you as a father can protect the child from the cars and other traffic. That's what's making riding a bike in Amsterdam more and more difficult these days, because a lot of people, like for example tourists, come and cycle here and are not used to these unwritten rules.
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Riding a bike as a Dutchman (or woman) is not a matter of "driving" .... it is like walking....you ride your bike as if you were walking, ......just with wheels and pedals.....
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Amazing documentary.....thank you for this.....it shows that using a bike is not actually something special....I truly hope the "rest" of the world get's it.....it's clean, cheap, affective and above all ; healthy....many greetings from an "upright"-bike-user of The Netherlands
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Super Beispiel wie man die Lebensqualität verbessern kann und gleichzeitig den CO2 Ausstoss verringert!.
Ich kann mich noch gut erinnern wie es in den 70igern ausgesehen hat,YEAH Amsterdam,aus Bern Schweiz
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