Cycling in Amsterdam-Noord

[@bradmazon716]

What I love about going north is that one moment you are in the city, and then not too far up the bike path, you find yourself in the countryside. That's something I love about The Netherlands.

[@Fjodor.Tabularasa]

Thanks to strict laws curtailing were it is allowed to build. We want to prevent build up areas all along roads. There are designated industrial areas in most cities and towns for that.

[@Fjodor.Tabularasa]

@@Elatenl and here it is strictly enforced, my boy.

[@mahmutyilmaz6387]

@@Fjodor.Tabularasa and there are 2 countries that totally mastered the perfect opposite

[@adamarmfield1069]

also cycling through flevopark, fields with sheep in very quickly, 20 years ago anyway ;)

[@IvoTichelaar]

​@@Elatenlno, not like Amsterdam-Noord. It's like somebody is operating a switch: one moment it is city-on, the next it is city-off. A very rigid boundary in planning.

[@test40323]

There is something so human about seeing people's faces, biking, walking, chatting...I love it. :-)

[@een_schildpad]

This was beautiful to see after fighting through a sea of cars biking to the library with my daughter today. Bitter sweet to know it doesn't have to be that way.

[@SledgeOfHouseHammer]

Everyone just seems super-chill.

[@mariadebake5483]

It is!

[@midasghijsels]

yes it is super-chill, you’re right.

[@slimetank394]

​@@Elatenldefinitely less stressful than cycling among cars and SUVs

[@slimetank394]

​@@Elatenl are you in Amsterdam?

[@amcaesar]

I can confirm.

[@Zooz.]

And not just tourists, there are also many immigrants (expats) and international students living in Noord or going for a ride through Landelijk Noord.

[@rolandcombes]

I love these types of videos, they are so relaxing. Although I also enjoy your commented videos, I love having this type of video playing on my side monitor as I work. I just wish these videos were hour-long or more.

[@slate613]

Amsterdam should seriously consider a public website of street cams broadcasting scenes like this 24/7. I'd have it on all the time.

[@blueninja012]

@@slate613 probably wouldn't work with their privacy laws, I know there's something about not being allowed to film children

[@KJSvitko]

Walking, running, bicycles, escooters, green open spaces, electric buses and trams are all parts of a good transportation system.

[@emapage8914]

I love living in this neighborhood, you are deceptively close to the city center while feeling completely separated from it, you get very little tourists going around and the way I take to go to centraal through noorderpark is always one of my favourite parts of the day!

[@Thyaggo.Maciel]

Very nice tour, have a blessed week my friend!

[@stuartsutherland7664]

And no helmets! Well designed bicycles ridden by riders dressed in everyday clothes. The dutch have a different mindset to riders in the UK.

[@BatteryAz1z]

Dutchie here When in Glasgow I noticed each stair step of the railway station says you MUST hold the guardrail. Very strange.

[@przemys4466]

Helmets are becoming more and more popular though, especially for children. ANWB (which used to be a cyclist association and now representing motorists primarily) and doctors are also very busy promoting them.

[@willb3636]

No helmets because everyone in the Netherlands is a cyclist. It’s the only country where no helmet is safe.

[@RealConstructor]

⁠@@przemys4466 And more and more elderly people use helmets, because they increasingly use an e-bike. And often they cause accidents (one sided also) because of bad judgement while taking corners and crossing roads, driving with too high speeds or miss seeing bollards, curb stones, cars, pedestrians and other cyclists. They misinterpret the velocity they have on an e-bike compared to the regular bicycle they used before.

[@seinehakkers5607]

The number of people not wearing a helmet, is a sign that the infra is good enough to do so. The only reason to wear one anyway is the speed of the cyclist. Although a helmet won't help you when a motorist slams in to you. In that case you need a deflector shield.

[@mahmutyilmaz6387]

Finally, a place in the Netherlands Ive been to before BycicleDutch published it. (Just north of Amsterdam centraal, take the ferry F3)

[@jannetteberends8730]

My favorite videos, watching bicyclists.

[@Robin_Goodfellow]

Recently returned from a trip to the Netherlands, had a really great time biking around. Some of the bromfietsers were a real menace, though. Not all, but definitely some.

[@slate613]

There's always a small number of people in any group that feel they need to be trolls. Sadly

[@mahaavaloka]

こんなに整然とした自転車道があるなんて、実に羨ましい

[@Sanginius23]

anybody knows when the new swing bridge in Noord will open? Construction is finished since a few weeks but we still can not use it..

[@LimitedWard]

This would be bumper-to-bumper traffic if everyone riding here was in a car.

[@bmcd9490]

Cycling heaven on Earth

[@1Blackstaffer]

Love your videos! Those scooters are so loud, though!

[@KJSvitko]

Bicycles make life and cities better. Ask your local transportation planner and elected officials to support more safe, protected bike lanes and trails. Every child should be able to ride a bicycle to school safely.

[@AzMedic]

I wish I could join them.

[@etbadaboum]

A nice wish for 2024 would be to upgrade to 4K :)

[@annebraun581]

👍👍👍👍

[@sepedajamandulu]

So cool

[@symbolsandsystems]

where are the electic scooters?

[@kailahmann1823]

wow, just seeing the number of people! I've just counted at a few spots here with 50 to 100 cyclists in 15 minutes, but this looks more like 50 per minute…

[@thebikejournal0303]

One thing I noticed is that there are not very many overweight people in Amsterdam. I wonder why? 😬😬

[@hendman4083]

Or you only noticed that not very many overweight people in Amsterdam use bikes. 🙄

[@rutgerb]

​​@ReindeR Rustema 4:47 ;)

[@aeroaa2]

is something wrong with your camera ? none of this footage looks 1080p in the slightest

[@Brozius2512]

It is in 1080p, your preferences must be set wrong. click the cog wheel button in the bottom of the video and set quality to 1080p.

[@aeroaa2]

@@Brozius2512 it is set to 1080p automatically, I did try setting it manually and video quality is still horrible

[@StefanCreates]

@@aeroaa2 it's not on you, the camera quality just isn't that great

[@Brozius2512]

@@aeroaa2 hmm, that's weird. Other video's do play in 1080p?

[@VacuousCat]

Moped noise is an insult

[@ChristiaanHW]

yes they are. now that there are good alternatives (good electric bikes and for delivery services electric mopeds) they should just go ahead and ban the sale of mopeds and set a date for when they get banned altogether. and there should be some new regulations on electric bikes. nowadays there are electric "bikes" that can go up to 50kp/h. and i've seen some where you don't even have to paddle, they're able to drive by themselves. a cycle paths is for up to around 25kp/h everything faster than that should be on the "normal" road, especially in the urban area's.

[@user-xs5dp4gw8e]

T h e Q u i e t ... mmm 😊

[@kjh23gk]

Good to see the absence of 2-stroke mopeds on Amsterdam's bike paths. Are other cities going to follow their lead? They really should be banned altogether, though. They are horribly noisy and polluting. Fat electric bikes look like a menace though. Maybe they should take the 2-stroke's place on the roads? If not, they are going to multiply until regular cyclists are intimidated off the cycle-paths and the Netherlands will experience an obesity crisis.

[@BicycleDutch]

Only Amsterdam and Utrecht got permission to ban mopeds from the cycle paths, but since a helmet obligation was introduced for all mopeds (the fast type already had mandatory helmets) these 2-stroke mopeds became a lot less attractive.

[@frankhooper7871]

​@@BicycleDutchIf mandatory helmets proved a deterrent to bromfiets use, that shows that mandatory helmets for cyclists is not a good idea if we want to encourage cycling.

[@KittyK.]

The Netherlands is no longer a 'cycling country'. More than half of the bicycles sold are now e-bikes. You even see more and more young kids on these motorcycles, too lazy to actually ride a bike. So obesity is also going to increase here.

[@moosejaw50]

You are mixing up electric scooters and pedelecs, there is big difference between them. Most new cargo bikes are pedelecs and you won't get fat riding them.

[@hanneken4026]

Speed pedelecs, where you don't have to pedal and which can go up to 50 km/h, are treated by law like the yellow numberplate scooters: not allowed on bike paths, and riders are required to wear a helmet. Those aren't sold much in the Netherlands. The ordinary electric assist e-bikes need you to pedal, but will provide assistance only up to 25 km/h. Those are sold and used a lot in the Netherlands, and people riding them still get plenty of exercise. Studies are showing that when people get an e-bike they bike more, for longer distances, and get in as much or more exercise as riders of non-electric bikes. The use of ebikes also replaces some trips that would otherwise have been made by car, studies have shown. Disparaging the use of e-bikes is not helpful when trying to get people to bike more, and use cars less.

[@steemlenn8797]

@@hanneken4026 pedelecs are especially useful if you are older or have e.g. knee problems (or outside the Netherlands hilly terrain). They make something that would be a big chore into something easily doable. Bikes are freedom enhancers.

[@bertoverweel6588]

I am 70 and happy with my e-bike, now I can still do 50 or 60 km journey's.

[@rutgerb]

Je vergeet de 2e hands markt. Ik heb nog nooit een nieuwe fiets gekocht.

[@hhgttg69]

just one or two cyclists :P