How did bikes evolve? Where did the Netherlands fit in around 1900? And what role did Fongers of Groningen play?
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Bicycle paths have a major impact on cycling culture in the Netherlands and on what the Netherlands looks like. What is involved in designing a cycle path?
The Netherlands is known worldwide as a cycling country, but this didn't happen overnight in the Netherlands either. For a while it even seemed that the car would win at the expense of the bicycle.
To some people, a bike is just a simple form of transport. To others, cycling is a way of life.
In other countries, the bike tended to be associated after the turn of the century with the working class. Queen Wilhelmina’s penchant for cycling meant that in the Netherlands, by contrast, bikes continued to be used by all levels of society. They have been seen as ‘typically Dutch’ ever...