Biking in the Netherlands

One of the most important aspects of Dutch culture is biking. In fact, the country has a growing population of 17 million people and all together, the Dutch own 22.5 million bicycles. This means that on average they own 1.3 bicycles per person! On this week’s episode of UCR Weekly, check out one of our students describing her first time biking in the Netherlands, the first video in a series dedicated to biking!

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I knew that bikes were a big thing, but not in the  sense that people would use it for everything.    I’d never actually seen that many bikes all at once  before. So some bizarre cases where I see people  

Use bikes would be, I guess, carrying children in  those little cage things. I don’t want to say cage. There’s a child there, there’s a child or a dog,  it changes, in their back and I was very shocked.

I think that that I’ve never seen Dutch people  use bikes in really creative ways. I remember   a friend who fell, uh, right on from their bike  when they were trying to bike drunk and since   then I never attempted. I’ve seen people getting  injured or they could bike when they were drunk  

But they couldn’t walk. Of course it was weird  not knowing how to bike in the Netherlands.   I was constantly mocked because everyone  learns at like, I don’t know, when they’re five.

But then I got it, I got it and I learned and I  got a bike that was small so it’ll work that well.