“Cycling is for fun and it runs red lights. It's cultural. It will never work in France. "Cycling is dangerous!" Who better to dismantle these received ideas than a Dutchman living in France? Few know that the Netherlands, known as a bicycle paradise, was itself a “car country” in the 1970s, before the population sparked a spectacular bicycle revolution. It goes to show that the pedal revolution is above all a matter of civic and political will.

With formidable humour, Stein van Oosteren explains to us why the country of the Tour de France must be made cycle-friendly: because it's good for health, morale, the autonomy of children, neighborhood life, the planet... He dismantles the multiple brakes on the practice of cycling, whether they are political or very often located "between our two ears". Because for this author experienced in debates with elected municipal officials, it is time to ask the right questions about transport. For example, not how many cars can drive on a street, but rather how many people? A cycle path carrying seven times more people than a car lane, the calculation is quickly done!

To believe in change, you have to experience it. In the absence of being able to take you to the Netherlands, Stein van Oosteren invites you to revisit the public space with his Dutch perspective. From this trip, you will return happy and amazed, as you return from a stay in the kingdom of cycling: why not the bike, indeed?