Mountain Biking with a Little Bit of Extra Alp ; Faced with Some of the Highest Mountains in Europe, Jon Paul Hedge Got Some Assistance with His Swiss Break by Choosing to Travel by Electric Bike...

Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › October 08, 2010

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IT was half way up to Hasliberg Reuti in the Swiss Alps and through a sweated eye that a blurry image of the grim reaper descended on the cycling group.

To be fair, cycling 39k (25 miles) probably wasn't one of my best decisions.

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Mountain Biking with a Little Bit of Extra Alp ; Faced with Some of the Highest Mountains in Europe, Jon Paul Hedge Got Some Assistance with His Swiss Break by Choosing to Travel by Electric Bike...

But when you are in Switzerland, and see those snowy peaks, you just want to go up them.

And luckily for this out of shape journalist help was at hand -- the bikes were electric.

With assistance up to 150 per cent, the Flyer Electro-Bikes were superb, really helping you up the steep climb.

However superb they were, the bikes were not quite as amazing as the views.

We were able to take them on a cable-car on...

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