For:
1. The streets are full of metal, the bus is full of smartphone zombies, the streetcar crawls along like a giant worm on rails, parking spaces in the city center are rare and expensive as albatross… But you’ll roll past the traffic jam at rush hour in a cool way, protect your joints, rev up your metabolism and burn 200 to 600 calories per hour.
2. Keyword calories: Thanks to the two-wheeler, you no longer have to pay for a fitness subscription, gasoline or public transport tickets.
3. Vintage racers à la Bianchi L’Eroica or Peugeot PX10 CBT Italia come pretty close to aesthetic perfection.
4. Thanks to Fahrtwind: no more bad hair days!
5. Killer argument: zero air pollution.
Against:
1. The bottom of your favorite jeans? Hopelessly worn through. And not even ox-gall soap can beat the chain oil on the right trouser leg.
2. Eternal dilemma: helmet? Or would you prefer a hairstyle?
3. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing? Garbage! Cycling in the rain is not even a pleasure in full-body Goretex.
4. We could lease a Bentley from the money spent on repairs or red-light buses imposed by over-motivated police officers.
5. Aggro cab drivers, narrow-gauge chauffeurs on the wrong track, inaudibly quiet but outrageously fast e-scooters and the driving style of some kamikaze cyclists all contribute to a 381 times higher risk of death compared to public transport users (source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office).
