The Swiss love their wheels! The infrastructure of Zug is set up perfectly for bike riding - lots of paths, parking, and places to buy/rent bikes. Pretty much at every public building and public transport hub, there are oodles and oodles of bikes:
At the Zug Bahnhof. |
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Double-decker bike parking system. |
As with all things, the Swiss have their own personal style in bikes:
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Flowered... |
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...fLoWeReD... |
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...and FLOWERED! |
Fancy tires... |
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...chrome... |
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...even zebra striped! |
My favorite, of course, pays homage to chocolate:
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Toblerone! |
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Baskets are popular, too. |
Being the engineer, Joe has seen some bikes that just deserve closer inspection:
A Swiss made "trekking" bike... |
...with a transmission... |
...and a belt drive... |
...and disc brakes, of course. |
Today I have a 10-speed poem (or 16-line poem, depending how you look at it).
pedal, pedal
coast
fastest rider
boast
uphill
climb
bike bell
chime
gear shift
click
downhill
quick
competition
toast
pedal, pedal
coast
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