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Vanmoof bicycles out of Amsterdam posted this video showing just how enjoyable some Dutch riders find their commute to the office. The Dutch get there by bike, do you?
Vanmoof bicycles out of Amsterdam posted this video showing just how enjoyable some Dutch riders find their commute to the office. The Dutch get there by bike, do you?
This video is offensive.
The Frame (vanmoo) is ugly and way too big for her.
Her riding form is way off. Look at those locked elbows.
On to top of that no helmet.
Josie, I resent that…who are you telling the Dutch to wear a helmet? You basically just called our entire nation of 16.7 million people irresponsible. Or millions of parents who either ride their kids to school or millions of children who do so by themselves…without a helmet in sight. Maybe in your part of the world your government has frightened you into using one or your peers wag their sanctimonious finger at you if you don’t, but here we enjoy and like to put our energy into safe bicycle infrastructure, good legislation (protection of cyclists) and education. The results are evident.
Legislation (mandatory) of helmets or active promotion thereof is a sign of failed bicycle policies and inefficient (car-centric) urban planning. It’s very likely this applies to your habitat. Our government and research institutions have established long ago that legislation or promotion of helmets has many side-effects. Every country that does so, has seen huge declines in cycling rates. It’s not coincidental these are mainly English-speaking countries.
Cycling is inherently safe, statistically safer than walking and helmets are NOT designed to save your life (they are made to only resist low-speed impacts), no matter all the emotional and even medical stories you like to believe. PS: do you wear a helmet when driving a car? No? It’s many times more risky, why not?
Apparently the Dutch have the safest road system in the world. Not just that, we value people on bikes at least as much, if not more than people in cars.
There are 100 million Europeans who ride just like this every day. Good luck with ’setting the record straight’. Just because you don’t enjoy normal cycling conditions, doesn’t mean we have to adopt fraudulent
So you could say we keep our head straight and rely on facts, not fiction. I wish you could do the same. It’s way better for your health and wallet, too.
There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
Without speaking for Josie, I’m fairly certain his comment is more in response to the comments that get posted in response to videos like the Leader commercial and other fixed gear clips that tend to attract a lot of hate directed at how people look, how people ride, what bike they have and if they have a helmet on.
Well, Frank, that’s ironic, huh?
You’re absolutely right, Brad.
I’ve lived in the States and a large part of my viewers/readers are from the US and just based on my own and their experience I could write a book about how people are so quick to judge, wag that finger etc, without looking into to things, in regards to how people cycle outside the US. And by that, I’m also talking up to the point of getting yelled at on the streets for not wearing one. And thus the completely ignorant comments you’d get for either talking about it, showing it or putting it up for discussion. The editor of Bikeportland.org not only gets tons of nasty/hate mail for posting pictures of people on bikes sans helmet but even for having the nerve(!) to publish a pic of a girl on a bike smoking a cigarette.
One could interpret my comments as very direct, whatever, but I mean every word and rather be blunt than a wishy-washy apologist. I just about have enough of it. This perpetuation of nonsense is getting ridiculous.
I’ve been looking over the fence all my life, that’s what moves this world forward. It’s not as if people actually believe the crap they hear and see on TV, right? :p
You know you’re commenting on a cycling blog when all everyone can talk about is the bike in the post and not the sexually suggestiveness of it
Wow of all the comments I have ever made this is the one that pisses someone off? Didn’t see that one coming. It was a joke. I was nitpicking the video without talking about the elephant in the room; being the overt sexual nature of the video. Wear a helmet or don’t. Doesn’t matter to me. I choose to wear one and would continue to wear one even if every car magically vanished.
I’m with you Josie. It was an obvious joke.
Actually, I thought the entire video was kind of dumb.
Amsterdamize,
It was a line from Austin Powers Goldmember. Nigel Powers (Austin’s Father… or “Fahzer”) says that to Johan Van Der Smut (aka Goldmember). Everytime I see somthing Dutch, I think of that line. It’s a curse really.
Ride on, Frank