2023-06-24 14:39:25
– Zurich’s bike fashion show: the smartest bikers and pedallers
“A senseless ride for aesthetes” – that’s the style ride that took place this Saturday in Zurich. The best pictures and the most exciting participants.
Posted today at 4:39 p.m
Raphael Manyoki came to the Zurich Style Ride with his homemade ratroad bike.
Photo: Dominique Meienberg
A beautiful bike is as much a status symbol today as an expensive car was once. At least that’s what the organizers of the Style Ride, which has been taking place in Zurich every year since 2011, say. On Saturday, around 110 smartly dressed people rolled through Zurich on polished two-wheelers.
The number 110 is what organizer Jeroen van Rooijen wheezes on the phone. He had just arrived at the steepest part of the route on Scheuchzerstrasse in District 6. He was particularly struck by an amphibious bicycle camper this year. With this bike, cyclists can travel and live both on water and on land.
This bike is a boat, bike and camper all in one.
Photo: Dominique Meienberg
The Style Ride is not a political event. “Instead of street fighting, we rely on the connecting power of beauty,” it says. There is no dress code. The only criterion for participation: a bicycle without a combustion engine.
Around 110 cyclists took part in the Style Ride through Zurich on Saturday afternoon.
Photo: Dominique Meienberg
At the Style Ride there were also many unique items to admire. For example André Schwyn’s bicycle, which Jacques Mercet designed in 1987. The well-known Lausanne frame builder manufactured its bikes in consultation with the customers and created unique and expensive design creations.
André Schwyn rides a 1987 jewel by Lausanne frame builder Jacques Mercet.
Photo: Dominique Meienberg
Some people took part in the Style Ride for the first time and were happy about the large variety of self-built and renovated bikes. Others regularly take part in special cycle races, such as Adriano and Liliane Grieder. This year they have already ridden a total of 6000 kilometers on different bicycles. Among other things, they took part in the “Eroica”, a historic bicycle race in Tuscany.
Adriano and Liliane Grieder have already ridden 6000 km this year on various bicycles.
Photo: Dominique Meienberg
More about cycling in Zurich Dominique Meienberg. since 1993 photographer for the Tages-AnzeigerMore infoTim Wirth is an editor in the Zurich Life department. He studied communication and has been writing about political and social issues since 2019. In “Züritipp” he is in charge of the music section. More info@WirthTim
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