American reacts to Bike Culture in Germany (German city with more BIKES than CARS!)

Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Bike Culture in Germany (German city with more BIKES than CARS!)

Thanks for subscribing for more German reactions every weekday!

Join as a member to get the ridiculous emojis and badge!

Got a video request? You can fill out this form!

Got a fun local news story? Submit it here!

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS

[stefanadolfspies]

I am so waiting for you to come to europe one day. I cant even imagine how your videos would look like but you have to do it :)

[stennostenno]

'Fake London' is London, Ontario, the place where the NJB dude used to live

[RandomBeing]

Trams "wait" for you bc the departure times are snychronized with the arrival of e.g. Busses, with a few minutes to spare for people to walk over and delays. The lower sign was a ban of overtaking other cars on the bridge.

[patriciapomp]

I live in Germany (Saxony) and i own a bike with a child carrier. It's awesome. I can fit both my kids and my groceries in it and I am as fast as most people are with their cars, because we have a lot of bike lanes without any traffic lights or speed limits. So it's way more relaxing too! My kids love the child-carrier and hop in as soon as i pull it out of our bike-garage.

[wombora]

Here in Berlin we had one big street converted to a car free zone and it worked really good, people and shopping went up in that area, but then the FDP and CDU came and said BUT WE NEED CARS FOR STUFF and now its a normal street again and way less people are around

[Herzschreiber]

Moved to Freiburg when I was 25 and lived there for about 16 years. I tell you, those were the best years of my life. Then I was silly enough to move away because of a love-thingy and .. well... the love died shortly after moving to Lower Franconia, but I am still stuck here because meanwhile the costs for rentals in Freiburg are exorbitantly and small appartements are rare because of all the students. I still feel homesick after now being away from Freiburg since 2002! It is the best city I ever experienced, I swear!

[Daeddei]

Going from "What about a baby in front of the tram" to "How about we add sharp, fast rotating metal blades in front of the tram".

[elizabethbathory]

Definitely one of my favorite videos of yours. Love that you took the time to react in detail. Watching you admire all that with enthusiasm is fun to watch and very uplifting.

[kerouac]

Using parking spaces for restaurants and cafés throughout Europe is one of the gifts that covid gave us.

[Chuulip]

I'm not from Freiburg but I've been there for work several times. It's my favorite city in Germany. It's pretty small, almost completely walkable (although trams are more convenient than walking) and has a historic feel and look to it (despite most of it being rebuilt! They rebuilt it they way it used to look unlike other German cities... looking at you, cologne).

[SiqueScarface]

22:50 That is "synchronizing of schedules". The bus from Schauinslandbahn (the funicular) to Günterstal is scheduled to arrive a few minutes befor the streetcar from Günterstal to Freiburg leaves, so you have enough time to leave the bus and walk over to enter the waiting streetcar.

[stennostenno]

Freiburg is kinda special like that to be fair

[nordwestbeiwest]

Well, I live on the German-Dutch border where the bicycle is the most important means of transport after the car. The infrastructure for bicycles between the two European countries is also better than for cars. There are a lot of cyclists here, from very young ages to seniors of 78, who use bicycles to get from point A to point B. That's probably why Dutch and German pensioners live longer than their American seniors.

[seltsamerjunge]

I love how that video is singlehandedly the best ad for Freiberg I've ever heard

[tjk_]

This is actually kind of common, especially in smallish student citys, there are often so many more bikes then cars because bikes are very small and maneuverable in citys while not causing traffic jams, so you get around just as, if not quicker then by car or bus

[futurefox]

Not a German: I visited Freiburg like a decade ago. The city is beautiful and the people are awesome. Had one of the best times of my life there so I extended my vacation to stay for a full month, I loved it so much! :)

[modikin]

To adress the point of cars: we like cars to get from city to city or into other countries for vacation (still, trains very nice most of the time), BUT we do not like cars (if possible) in the daily life / commute to work etc. for a multitude of reasons:

- pollution
- often more expensive
- in older cities troubles finding a parking spot
- bike / walking is better for your health
- hideous sight inside cities
- often actually takes longer (as cities are small in area size)

[klarasee]

21:26 The whole thing is not powered by solar panels, but it’s powered by renewable energies.

[SmartVanture]

Born in Freiburg, raised in the Black Forest 🙋🏽‍♂️💚

[smiechuwarte-qtpn]

For me from Poland this film is not a shock. It is similar in Poland, for example the old historic part of Krakow has been closed to car traffic for a long time (police, ambulances, garbage trucks and restaurant suppliers with special permission can move). The first reason was trivial, namely so that car exhaust fumes do not destroy monuments, the second so that tourists can move around calmly with a minimal risk of accidents. Then came the fashion to return to bicycles. It is no secret to anyone that Europe has a bicycle culture and all professional cycling races take place in Europe. I do not remember there being any professional cycling races in the USA or Canada . I also forgot to write that in the EU there is also a Police that rides bikes from spring to winter . An interesting fact is that the Trek bicycle company is from the USA but sells most of its bicycles in the EU.