As I said in another message, the Dutch are lucky to have cities that are mostly flat. In my city we've got some hills in spite of the region being plain — and

As I said in another message, the Dutch are lucky to have cities that are mostly flat. In my city we've got some hills in spite of the region being plain — and riding a bike on a slope you can easily reach 60 km/h without sweating. It's foolish to do so, but you get carried away. I was driving way too fast on that event and I even told that girl afterwards that she may have stepped on the bike lane, but I was also going too fast. However not to detract from my main point — when I first fell off my bike this year and hit my helmet-protected head, I wasn't doing more than 10 km/h. And so in both situations I was protected by my gear and the outcome would have been much worse without it.