Electric bikes or for old people you said? Forget it! Electric bikes are fun, fast, cool and procure a very enjoyable experience, just enhancing your own efforts to zoom forward.
I joined that tour thanks to NipTuck, who SMSed me on Sat "2 electric bikes available, would like to borrow one (for free?)" I felt really excited, as I wanted to try one of those since long. I haven't been disappointed.
At first, they look like any other bike. A bit heavier, but not so much. I tried mine without electric help, you can ride it as a normal bike. Switch to "low", and changing gear just feels smoother. Set to "medium", and it feels like someone is pushing you from behing when the traffic light switches to green. Click on "fast", and you feel like flying. It feels just too easy, quite like cheating I must say. Just to give you an idea, I climbed La Jonction – Petit Lancy at more than 22km/h, passing with a smile heavy sweating sportive bikers standing on their pedals!... a delight ;-)
Apart from discovering electric bikes, it was great to get back to ferme de Merlinge (don't miss their Saturday brunch if you've never been there before: http://www.fermedemerlinge.ch/), and meet many new friendly same-minded people ; ecofriendly, open minded, sportive and… fun - not to say crazy! The water battle is a good memory. The siesta too. Our little tour in the forest on the way back as well. Eating cookies while fixing a tire, and thus appearing as a hero for such a little price, was cool too ;-)
For all that, thank you for organizing this very enjoyable event, and thanks to all participants for the nice company. When's the next one? ;-)
