Tomas Van Houtryve for The New York Times
By TIM NEVILLE
Published: August 26, 2011
Just finished Neville's article and it is a great piece of short travel literature and would inspire anyone to visit Switzerland at least once. Best of all, it is a frontal assault on that demographic of the bike clan that sees electric-assist bikes as just another form of SUV. As a serious cyclist who can pedal without electric assist, Neville's tour and the rapidly expanding electric bike infrastructure in Switzerland make it very clear that e-biking across the Alps remains more like biking and physical engagement with the countryside than any other form of transportation. And makes us wonder where, eventually, in the States we'll be able to go 100s of Kilometers in a day and get off the beaten path.
Robert Baird
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