Bicycle training in the Netherlands

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1. I remember doing this :)
2. @Tom Boros: Not only this video explains that! As a native Dutchman I am pleased to explain you cycling is a part of Dutch life and a mean of transportation. In the Netherlands people grow up with cycling, so it is common for us. And for that reason when people start their driving education they already are used to deal with cyclists as well. And therefore they accept and respect each other.
3. Ha, I rode back and forth by those "Verkeersexamen" signs for a month and had no clue what they meant!
4. It's absolutely marvelous the way you have evolved to a cycling city and incorporated this to your everyday life.
   The early education from the parents and the reinforcement at the of schools it's something worthy to replay and learn from you as a country to the world.
   Thank you!
5. Dutch children are lucky to have such good infra and car drivers who will let the children be on the street on their bikes, as when I was growing up in Edmonton, my mom was really scared of even thinking of letting me and my siblings ride a 2.5 km route with the only major crossing is that of a 1 lane(each direction) 60 km/h with a marked pedestrian crossing, if I had to use such a crossing to get by the sometimes busy traffic. In fact, the culture of the car made it that me and my siblings were really mad about the school trying to get us to walk or ride a bike to school because my parents were planning on making us do it. Yup, now I figured out many years later that it is not hard or dangerous and good for you. To this day I actually do not go in a car or a truck very often, maybe 1 time in a fortnight. At least I do not go at the average speed of one furlong per fortnight. And earlier this high school year when I asked my mother if she would let a little sister go on her bike to school, now she is going to the school that had the walk to school day I was mad about at the time, and she is still scared of the arterial road crossing. I also managed to get my mother to say that she would try and get groceries on her bicycle she rarely uses, at least once per week, and told her that she might like it if she went along with my little sister (really young, born a long time after I was) to see what the ride to school would be like and how safe it is. Now, once the weather warms up (really hard to cycle in the winter because local roads are only plowed to 5 cm and have few provisions to get rid of ice) and it is actually possible to make it through a ride without falling off due to black-ice (on Christmas, I tried to ride out to the town centre, after 900 metres I slipped on some of that ice and I had to spend the rest of the day on my bed so that my leg would not break), now I plan to ride about thrice as long as the sister is planning on doing to her school from the city centre to my school. 
6. Did these tests happen when Hitlers Nazis (maybe they deserve lower case) invaded the Netherlands, did the tests like this stop, or did they stop for 5 years. 
7. +Roosje Keizer 
   No they don't. If you have the infra, it is deemed quite safe. Plus the driver's, children's education make it a very safe place to cycle in just about any weather without helmets. I think some of the only weather they won't ride in would be a tornado, but aside from the once in a lifetime storm, they cycle through snow (quite heavy snow actually) wind, rain and slush. Driver's education makes them very aware of the fact of cyclists having the same right of way as a motorist or better. Plus unless you can prove that they intended to hit your car even if the cyclist was in error, you pay half damages. If they were not in error, then you pay all the costs associated with injuring or damaging someone or their bike. Some do wear a bike if they feel like it, but no one except maybe some parents require helmets on a bicycle. 
8. I would reccomend if you have a friend to help you do that. Also if you can take the pedals off a bike for starters that will train your balance (you can use your feet to push so you don't fall over - like training wheels.)
9. they should visit vietnam to see how our student 
10. Most serious injuries happen in and around the house. Do you wear a helmet there?
11. It's normal here. It depends on what school you're going to, or WANT to go. It's well possible there's a school nearby but that doesn't mean you want to go there. F.i. I went to a school about 10km from our house eventhough there were similar ones closer by. One was catholic, the other I just didn't want to go to. Btw, we don't think it's that far, we're used to it. Especially when you're living in 'the country' children form huge groups in the morning and ride to school together. 
12. Nobody needs a license to ride a bike. 
13. yes, as part of the exam. It's incalculated. Geez..... sigh.
14. If a fast food chain can be worldwide why not this one? All Dutch, you guys so special. This video explains why there's no war between drivers and cyclists in the Netherlands.
15. @hotochchara If you're a woman, it is even easier than if you are a man, because there are many lessons that are subsidized for foreign women. Just google 'fietslessen vrouwen Rotterdam'. If you're male, you could just try in the park, by first stepping, while holding the handlebars, and riding while standing on 1 pedal. Then try riding on the lawn on a nice day. You won't fall too hard. Or, you look up this: fietsersbond(dot)net(/)fietsdocenten_fietsschool/zuidholland 
16. 'And many will pass the test' AKA: 'Everyone will pass the test'
17. back in the late 1960s in New Jersey public low grade school I went to had a small town as part of the play ground. A couple of days each week we got be motorist (push cars) bicycle (trikes and bikes) and pedestrians. Some times a police person would help up learn rules, but mostly school teachers. At 6 years old I knew more about how to act on the roads then 99.99% of people today. Days we didn't have training, during play time guess where every kid wanted to play? 
18. @Gazza2 In my class we had some teens that lived on farms and small villages (with populations of <500). Some had to cycle up to 20 or 25km. In the winter it was a pain in the ass with temperatures of -10 degrees celcius. Fortunately some were lucky and the parents would buy them bus tickets.
19. Does anyone know any bike riding training centre for adults in Rotterdam or near Rotterdam? I did not learn bike riding in my childhood.
20. this is a CITY BIKE not a RACE BIKE no helmet at all