Riding a bicycle in Hilversum (Netherlands)

[632] A relaxed 5 minute ride from the station to an office building.More information in the blog post: bicycledutch.w...

[@xorxzorz6995]

Very clean and well taken care of roads and sidewalks. I'm impressed with that.

[@JeyPeyy]

I want to move to The Netherlands from Sweden, but I haven't chosen which city/town yet. I'm looking for jobs through LinkedIn, and each time a job is in a city I don't know, I come to your channel to see what it looks like from a biker's perspective. It's really helpful, thanks for doing this! Hilversum looks amazing, so green and calming.

[@calibvr]

if youre still around in the netherlands, id recommend you go here once, at night, and just walk through eiksbosserweg. its near perfect

[@peterslegers6121]

I like the drive towards the tiny police station at 0:28. It was designed in 1919 by Willem Marinus Dudok, the famous architect and urban designer of lots of buildings in Hilversum. Its ground plan is beautifully drafted: The little left "shed" hosted a fire brigade hose wagon. In its extension into the building there are a toilet and two police cells. Behind the parabolic door, there's a little hall with bicycle parking spot. The windows mark the waiting room. And the right extension had a "rijwielbrancard", bicycle stretcher, possibly the same model as in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIa4qWqeop1rm5Im55s

[@ce-ce-em]

Another great video. a tour on an OV fiets! Nice!

[@hilversummanabagu9765]

Beautiful City. I wish the country I live in had bicycle lanes.

[@warden9876]

Hilversum is a very nice place in North Holland. I used once to travel from Lelystad to Hilversum.

[@antoniescargo1529]

Noord Holland

[@martijnvv8031]

Yeah ! That's my little village ! (90.000 people)

[@podlak]

Lovely place

[@Saartje05]

Load of crap.

[@erik5374]

I work in that ‘village’. (and was involved in designing a few hundred meters of this route)

[@erik5374]

Saartje, de lul verstaat gewoon Nederlands. 2 hoofddoekjes in beeld en meteen een grote bek.

[@JanSanono]

'Little village' all big tv-companies are headquartered there!

[@blackwatch_TV]

..Love your videos, this is special

[@smollkitteh1337]

I spent my vacation last year in Hilversum... it's a lovely place for sure

[@martijnvv8031]

Did you came for the Dudok architecture ? Or just as a 'base camp' for trips in the Netherlands ? (I live here, but would never think of using it as a vacation destination!)

[@035gogmofo6]

@@martijnvv8031 echt he. hahaha hilversum is geen moer te doen.

[@Trucker1957]

I love how flat it is there, it sure makes riding more of a pleasure. All hills where I live in the U.S

[@danrkelly]

For me the most interesting thing is the street at 3.11. Motor traffic is one way but cycling (and of course walking) are 2 way. That is bold.

[@frankhooper7871]

As far as I'm aware, that's fairly standard in the Netherlands...and at least five roads in Ipswich town centre (UK) are one-way for cars, but have a contra-flow cycle lane. Mind you, you really have to be aware of pedestrians who step into the road without looking!

[@Esli26]

It's like that almost everywhere, I can't think of a place where cycling is only one way, even if the motor trafic is one way. This is mostly so because it doesn't necessarily need that much more space

[@johanwittens7712]

In the city where i live, gent in belgium, 90%-100% of narrow city center streets are one way for cars and 2 way for bikes. It's the standard here, not bold at all. As stated in other comments it is standard in a lot of cities in the Netherlands, and belgium too, and I think it is standard in a lot of european cities... It is surprising to me that this is even interesting to you. This is so normal to us here... :D

[@jake32de]

This is even standard in germany. Almost all one-way streets here have the Sign "🚲 frei"

[@ravingcyclist624]

Excellent video as usual. It's interesting how you sometimes overtake the same people more than once. For example 1:14 and 2:53. All a part of shooting and editing videos.

[@danrkelly]

Wonderful, lovely gold DS too. What about that plank parked in the tunnel at the start? Is that enforceable?

[@driewiel]

No no. They can go outside the tunnel too if they wish.

[@erik5374]

Wanneer komt dit in de krant? 😉 🤫

[@sandersteman8800]

Wtf mijn appartementencomplex ligt op de route. Grappig. Moest wel wennen aan verkeer, fiets en wandelverkeer hebben hetzelfde nivo. Geen trottoirs.

[@mees7529]

Is dit in noord hilversum?

[@jceess]

Are all the public bikes that noisy or did you just get unlucky?

[@woutervanr]

Ofcourse not, that would be extremely annoying. This noise has a pretty constant frequency which suggests that something was hitting the spokes of one of the wheels. At 2/3 the noise disappears for a while and then comes back less loud.

[@peterslegers6121]

It sounds like the chain grinding on the chaincase. At 3:24 the noise disappears because of just rolling out, not pedalling, in order to slow down a bit before turning right.

[@DavidvdGulik]

1:17 to 1:27 is significant. All pedestrians walking on the sidewalk part of the pavement because they account for bicycle traffic without thinking about it, and the woman at 1:24 looking over her shoulder to see if she can safely walk on the bike path to pass the pedestrians coming in the opposite direction. Absolutely seemless

[@electricboi9319]

David van der Gulik the sidewalk there is very narrow tbh and that makes it even more significant

[@leotard2536]

That sounds like an OV bike lmao

[@zarbonida]

Ma che bici rumorosa!

[@zarbonida]

@Roosje Keizer sembra una puzzolente auto a gasolio.

[@droneair7323]

Je moet echt iets aan je fiets doen 😂 beetje WD-40 of zo kraakt van alle kanten

[@BicycleDutch]

Ik zal het aan de NS doorgeven. Dat was een OV-Fiets. :-)

[@Daan0908]

you went the wrong way, this is the ugly side of Hilversum

[@tomashernandez965]

Nice I like married whit women on this place because I don't have to buy a Carr nice bike and everything OK

[@Saartje05]

They want a car TOO

[@roadrage9191]

@@Saartje05 They want a car, a bycicle and then they go by public transport:)