Originally Posted by
maddyfish
And they are bullet proof, never need to sleep and when it rains they sprout an umbrella from their heads.
I've been there. It is flat as a board. And your country is smaller than the county that I live in (in case you don't know what a county is, it is a tiny division of a state, we have 120 in my state).
And my 7 year old daughter commutes faster than the riders I've seen there.
Yes my commute is short .39 miles to be exact.
No she doesn't.
Let me see, you have been to the city center of Amsterdam once, which means you know f*ck all about commuting in this country.
The size of the country is completely irrelevant, unless your commute is 250+ miles.
Or are you suggesting that Netherlands is less than .39 miles across?
Country may be flat (the western part at least) but its full of canals and rivers that have bridges high enough to let ocean going ships pass underneath. I'm pretty sure that few urban areas in US have bigger elevation changes.
I, for example, cross this one daily:
Besides, Limburg province (southeast) looks like this:
Near Nijmegen:
Near Arnhem:
Vaals, south Limburg:
Point stands: when you are used to cycling, doing reasonably good speed on a bicycle demands just as little from your body as walking. (of course, a nice walkabout for an hour or so is besides the capabilities of many americans..)