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Product Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dutch National Road Race Championships, Bicycle Monarchy, Fietsvierdaagse, 2007 Amstel Gold Race, Dutch Bicycle, 2007 Eindhoven Team Time Trial. Excerpt: Cycling is a very common and popular method of transportation. Bicycles are mainly used for short-distance trips such as shopping, going to school and work. Bicycles are also well-used for recreational purposes. The Netherlands are well equipped with cycle-paths and other segregated cycle facilities. The network stretches to all provinces, and the bordering nations - Belgium and Germany. The country values its cycleways as much as any other method of transportation - like a network of roads, these cycleways can take one from any city to a destination of choice - even long distances such as from Maastricht to Amsterdam. As a result, the quality of these cycleways is very high, and cycling at considerable speed is possible. These cycleways come in many forms, with their own sets of rules and systems - including traffic signals (or traffic lights), tunnels and lanes. Tourists, when they visit the Netherlands, often rent a bicycle and cycle around the countryside or the city. Bicycle helmets are hardly ever worn in the Netherlands - the same can be said for Denmark, and for other places with much traffic by bicycle. Cyclists of all ages, and the government, consider the bicycle helmet unnecessary and there is no 'helmet law'. No single reason accounts for why cycling is so popular in the Netherlands; rather the combination of many 'bicycle friendly' factors reinforce each other: The Netherlands is a densely populated and very flat country, which means that journeys tend to be well within the capabilities of the average cyclist. Cycling is very cheap and has low overheads. The sheer number of c... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4525425
Product Description: A guide to bicycle touring in one of the best places on earth to do it: Holland. 2-color route maps and detailed cue sheets, as well as information about the amenities and places of interest along the route. In addition to detailed route descriptions, the book contains general and bicycle-specific information about the country in general and each one of the towns and regions visited.
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