bike pics from Switzerland

[Mojo]

My wife and I just returned from 20 days in western Switzerland and surroundings. Here are my bike pics, with a few from France Germany.

Occasionally I saw lycra/carbon riders out climbing the hills, but those bikes didn't vary from the racing bikes on this side of the Atlantic.

We stayed with family in Carouge (suburb of Geneva), and I failed to get a pic of the Brompton bike shop in the neighborhood.

It seems I was most interested in bikes with women riding them....

I did see a few lugged frames of 70s-80s vintage. Nothing modern and lugged though.

 

It was interesting to me; this is the top of the first world, by just about any economic or life-quality measure. 

Here bicycles are used regularly as transport, and are fully integrated into traffic and other mass transit.

Bikes are allowed on most trains and buses. (And an aside, dogs seem to be allowed in most restaurants and stores.)

I don't think the bike-riding Swiss thinks her life is diminished because she doesn't drive everywhere.

I spent a day hiking with a 57 year old Swiss man that had never owned a car and felt no need to do so.

 

And I doubt many would trade passports.

  

Pics start here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79695460@N00/6248492498/in/photostream/

[James Warren]

 

Cool! A lot of Hillborne green in the first photo.

 

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[PATRICK MOORE]

Beautiful photos; thanks for posting. That must be the only Leglolas, if not Rivendell, in Switzerland.

I like this chainguard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79695460@N00/6247960827/in/photostream/

I see ski-ers on XC rollers out on our Rio Grande path in the warmer weather -- sometimes in groups -- but those are much longer and (also?) used with ski poles.

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[Mojo]

The trip pictures end just before the shot of the Legolas. I couldn't afford to take a bike!

[Tim McNamara]

People who don't think that where they live is better than everywhere else often move, if they can afford to do so.

Switzerland developed an interesting solution to their own health insurance problems.

[Mojo]

And I should have added, I wouldn't trade my passport either.

[dougP]

Mojo:

Thanks for posting. They do look to have integrated bicycles
seamlessly into their lifestyle. It would be interesting to know how
they deal with winter. Maybe just put on a lot of clothes?

My wife thinks we saw a trike like the one that looks to be
convertible into a stroller when we were in Kentucky last year. That
looks super practical for shopping with the kids.

dougP