Called Fiets in Dutch, the bicycle is a tremendous part of the Dutch culture. With around 14million people living in the Nederlands, there are around 12millions bicycles. Just about every person in Holland has a bike. Pretty impressive. It was in the late 1800's when the Dutch truly began their love affair with the bike and they haven't looked back. It has provided them an inexpensive, reliable and efficient means of transportation. But being the utilitarian culture that they are, the Dutch weren't happy with just having bicycles for transportation, they wanted bicycles for work, play, and bicycles that were going to provide them an exceptional tool for whatever need that may arise.
I truly wish that we as a country could find the same appreciation of the bicycle as the Dutch have. Unfortunately our country is huge and extremely vast and our cities haven't been set up to accommodate the bicycle. Some cities are trying and others not so much. So how can this change? How can the American perception of a bicycle as a toy change to a legitimate tool? I hope to show as many people as possible the many possibilities of a bicycle. A bicycle doesn't have to be a toy or a race machine, it CAN be transportation and a tool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq3gIVGFTk4&feature=fvw
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