• Magnetar@feddit.de
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    It’s so eerily flat there, it’s unsettling. I don’t understand how people can stand it.

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      I grew up in a very flat part of England, flatness to me is the default and I get genuinely excited by hills.

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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        I get excited by hills but it’s because they remind me of home. Out of my window was a deep valley with a huge hill and just watching the seasons pass each year was a joy. The spring lambing season when the sheep covered the hills to the winter with snow covering them and you’d know it was time to fetch the sledge!

        Moved to Lincolnshire in my mid teens and it bored the absolute fuck out of me. Fields of rapeseed in all directions as far as the eye could see. Relentless wind that had no hills to block it so it never changed direction.

        I found it easier biking with a BMX on hills than I did using a mountain bike in windy flat conditions.

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      As someone who grew up somewhere super flat it really doesn’t get to you because it’s all you’ve ever known. However, now that I live somewhere with hills it drives me crazy when I visit home.

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        I can relate. I never imagined I would see someone complain or not understand what living on a flat area is like- it’s super easy! It’s the mountains and hills what’s difficult!

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          Hills are depth. They add character to any place for free. Oh you don’t like where you are right now? Just go up

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      Why do you think their bicycle infrastructure is so damn good

      I’d love to have that kind of cycling stuff where I live.

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        The Netherlands doesn’t have good bicycle infrastructure because of the fact that the country is relatively flat - they have it because they prioritized safe streets in the 70s following the stop de kindermoord-campaign.

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          As far as public safety campaign titles go, “Stop the child murdering” is fucking metal! 😄🤘👌

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        Accidents happen in the Netherlands just like anywhere else. I’m half Dutch and my grandfather was hit by a car and killed there.

        “The bicycle was the most dangerous mode of transportation in 2022, with a total of 291 fatalities. The car came in second place, with 225 victims. By comparison, that year 57 pedestrians and 20 truck drivers were also killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands.”

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          I think you have to look at the rate, accidents per km. That accounts for dutch using bikes more than other countries

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          The numbers went up since the mass adoption of electric bikes. This caused especially elderly people to drive twice as fast as they could before, with heavier bikes they can’t control as well and they generally don’t wear helmets.

          The next big problem are young people doing what young people do but now with electric assistance

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            I didn’t even think about that, but it makes sense why the numbers seem much higher now. My grandfather (Opa) was killed in the early 90s… somewhere around Eindhoven… can’t remember exactly

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              Somewhere around Eindhoven in the early 90s, you say? 🤔

              Was Romário cleared before fleeing to Catalonia?😛

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          So, are those bikers fatal to themselves or are they killed because of other vehicles?