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