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  • 388 points Robinet_des_Bois

    Yeah I love the Netherlands but i really don't get why they have put one here

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    338 points Dykam

    These are inverted speed bumps targeting mopeds/scooters, and recently, fatbikes. They're fine to cross if your speed is < 25km/h and/or you have little suspension. So for most cyclist it's alright.

    In this case I'd choose the inverted speed bumps over the desirepath.

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    122 points qualitycancer

    I expected fatbikes to be a condescending dutch name for mobility scooters lol

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    44 points Telsion

    If only they were, then they'd be less of a menace

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    3 points XxRAM97xX

    Y r fatbikes specifically a menace compared to other bikes?

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    21 points Telsion

    Because it's trivially easy to override the 25kmh limit so these can and will speed along through narrow streets which are often pedestrian-only, and are operated by literal kids (I have seen 10 year olds ride these - without helmet) whose risk assessment is still lacking. Although that lack of risk assessment isn't limited to the kids driving these things.

    A combination of these factors makes that they're a danger to not just anyone around a fatbike, but also the drivers themselves.

    Fatbikes are not able to be insured, so if there's an accident, the driver (or the parents, if it's a kid) will have to pay for damages themselves. There was actually a court case about this recently which ruled that the father of the kid will have to pay. Rightfully so.


    If we compare this to normal bikes, as was a part of your question, those are smaller, lighter, and slower than fatbikes, which makes them much safer for people around them and the people using them.

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    7 points microwavepetcarrier

    I'm confused, is this assuming that fatbikes are all also e-bikes?
    Fatbikes are just bicycles with extra big tires.

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    12 points Telsion

    Legally, yes, fatbikes have been ruled as e-bikes, hence why they have a 25 kph speed limit.

    However, because this speed limit is so trivially easy to override, I do not agree with this definition. They should be classed as something like scooters instead.

    Fatbikes are not just bicycles with extra fat tyres, they have a powerful electrical engine which allows them to reach speeds far in excess of that 25pkh limit. They have no business in busy city centres where they are far too big to have a space in the street scape.

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    16 points XxRAM97xX

    Oh interesting because a fat bike means to me as an American just a regular bicycle with 4 inch wide tires or wider but it could also refer to an fat tire e-bike as well I guess

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    7 points Dykam

    I guess that's valid, but non-electric fat bikes never became popular in the Netherlands. There's a few, but it's quite rare. Also language wise, didn't have a special name in Dutch. but with the spike in popularity of these bikes, but electric, the English name Fatbike stuck.

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    2 points CowgirlSpacer

    Fatbikes in the Netherlands refers specifically to a type of electric bike with a more like motorbike/scooter shaped frame. This type has taken over the term because due to a lot of cheap bikes in this style flooding the market from like temu n the like, they've become really common on our streets.

    So yes when a Dutch person mentions a fatbike, they specifically mean an ebike.

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    1 points XxRAM97xX

    Ahhah got ya makes sense

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    3 points Throw_My_Drugs_Away

    Controversial take, but: fatbikes are cheap ebikes, so you get younger and less wealthy people riding them. They're really not that big of a problem and seem more like a socially accepted way of hating on a group of people.

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    1 points sevcsik

    It could be a slur for cars

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    3 points Maoschanz

    you'd choose the speed bumps on a dry weather, but when they transform into a pond you would slowly go around them like everyone else

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    7 points KnifeKnut

    There is drainage.

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    3 points Dykam

    Never seen any standing water in them.

    In those circumstances this desirepath would be quite slippery.

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    2 points Robinet_des_Bois

    This makes sense, thank you for the explanation :)

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    3 points TheMasterPotato

    I actually find them rather fun to ride over on my regular eBike. 

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    4 points Dykam

    At the right speed they're a nice break from the smooth cyclepaths :P Shortest pump track.

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    39 points Diligent_State387

    Probably a 30km/h zone and cyclists who can drive faster generally don’t follow the speed limit

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    26 points HiopXenophil

    cyclists who go past 30km/h don't take this cycle path

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    3 points KnifeKnut

    School zone

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    0 points Laosiano

    I did deliveroo for years. Next thing is putting expensive metal racks at the dirt path. It's pathetically annoying.

    I broke my shoulder once cycling somewhere in the dark, where all cyclists went for years, at rhijnspoorplein, because they suddenly decided to put tree trunks on the ground exactly where people used to ride. I fucking hate Amsterdam.

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  • 46 points KnifeKnut

    Along Nadezjda Mandelstamstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands. No unusual context here, aside from being in a school zone next to a park.

    An article on this sort of bike path traffic calming feature, intended to slow mopeds and scooter; surprisingly the only result talking about it this particular type: https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/11/speedbumps-on-cycle-path.html

    Before the speed dips, in 2020 https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3192381,4.9567608,3a,29.9y,311.82h,87.8t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0GgwEyiHs_CFy-g_3K6Oyg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D2.195859379398172%26panoid%3D0GgwEyiHs_CFy-g_3K6Oyg%26yaw%3D311.82422029414585!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

    Google Earth overhead pictures indicate it was installed between September 2020 and June 2021.

    Latest street view, from 2023 https://www.google.com/maps/@52.319176,4.9566923,3a,50.3y,333.58h,85.66t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sxnmHERXLMvVRevuYTZId6g!2e0!5s20230901T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.338929936205304%26panoid%3DxnmHERXLMvVRevuYTZId6g%26yaw%3D333.5759175053825!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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  • 10 points Ok_Life_5176

    I am a rollerblader, I would love this!!

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  • 31 points A-Chilean-Cyborg

    First time a desire path is a bad thing and should be corrected.

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    3 points Brillek

    Dunno. Still makes people slow down. Looks a bit ugly ig?

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  • 18 points Oktokolo

    Doesn't look like there needs to be a speed limit there. A straight path with good visibility far ahead.
    Does this path have a gruesome history?

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    59 points Kobakocka

    Oh boy, you need speed limit if you are on a moped or fatbike...

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    8 points KnifeKnut

    School zone

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  • 3 points jarvischrist

    Bijlmer spotted!

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  • 4 points peepay

    I can imagine rain water collects there - and freezes in the winter.

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    16 points PerjorativeWokeness

    In the Netherlands?

    Unlikely. We tend to remember that (it probably rained while installing it) and take care of drainage.

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    4 points qvarcos

    There is drainage

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    7 points peepay

    That's more engineering and thought than I'm used to.

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    3 points wolflegion_

    You can just about see the drainage covers installed in the curb in each valley(?). The road is probably also slightly angled inwards towards that curb to further help drainage.

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    2 points interrogumption

    There's a drain visible in the photo

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  • 1 points Or_Some_Say_Kosm

    That design would scrape the bottom of my escooter, desire path it is!

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  • 1 points ColourSchemer

    Damn speed walkers nearly rear ended my pet tortoise!

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  • 1 points jamie3324123

    The absolute limit of these is 41km/h before you start flying on a 95kg 2 wheeled vehicle

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  • 0 points dmo7000

    Speed is always the desire

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  • -3 points Visible-Grass-8805

    🤣

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  • -4 points 424f42_424f42

    Speed divot.

    I'd assume it was sinking and not on purpose so id avoid it

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