![]() ![]() The country’s racing calendar is chock-full of minor classics. ![]() It’s far too small and flat to host a grand tour, but, for decades, most towns have hosted amateur races around their churches. The Netherlands has long been one of bike racing’s home countries. Cycling is such a part of the Dutch way of life that it’s easy to forget that the Netherlands is also a great place for road riding. On any given afternoon in a city such as Amsterdam, Utrecht, or Rotterdam, you’ll see bankers in expensive suits racing home on rusty rattletraps, students carrying their girlfriends to cafés on handlebars, and grandmas doing their shopping on brand-new e-bikes. All day, every day, all across the country, millions of cyclists of all ages and types go where they want to go on two wheels. Quiet bike routes crisscross the countryside. Hypermodern bike parking is provided at train stations. Just about every one of its streets is lined with a red bike path. ![]() Dutch cycling infrastructure is world-renowned. ![]()
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