Netherlands vs China - Fascinating Bike Facts
Bikes, bikes, bikes! I guess when you think of countries known for mass quantities of bicycles, you think firstly of China and the Netherlands. Did you know these fascinating facts about those countries?
- There are more bikes than people in Holland! With a population of 16 million, there are actually 18 million bicycles. Bikes don’t just outnumber cars, they outnumber people!
- Bikes are the most frequently used means of transport within a distance of 7.5km (38% of all trips in Amsterdam are made by bike).
- Amsterdammers all combined, travel about two million kilometres every day by bicycle.
- Traffic accidents and the oil crisis led to the bike heyday.
- The ‘Dutch Bike’ is not Dutch at all – it is basically an English roadster!
- Cycling is part of the national identity
- In China there are around ½ a billion bikes (500 million) which is about 1 bike per household. This has dropped from 670 million in 1995 down to 435 million and then increased again.
- Bicycles outnumber cars by at least 10 to 1.
- There are bikes with cargo beds that carry everything from bags to rubbish to new sofa sets. It is not uncommon to see bicycles with caged songbirds dangling from the handlebars.
In Australia, by comparison, according to https://australian-cyclists-party.org.au/the-facts the average household has 1.5 bikes and only 5% of Australians are commuter cyclists.
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