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greazeball
Feb 4, 2003



Looks epic!

When you start planning the route through Switzerland, take a good look at the bike routes here: https://www.schweizmobil.ch/en/veloland.html

These routes are extremely well signposted, there's a sign at every intersection along them, even if it's just an up arrow telling you to go straight ahead, so it really makes it easy to just ride without looking for a street name or however you're planning to do it. I'm not exaggerating either, there will be a sign at every cross street and sometimes a hundred yards before it if there's something tricky you should do to turn left or if you're descending and there's a turn. They're always brown and they're numbered.



One-digit routes are national, they go for 300-400km. The regional routes have two digits and the local routes have three digits. They all incorporate a lot of side streets and some hard dirt trails to get you off the motorways so they're pretty peaceful if your wheels can deal with some roots and rocks (usually they're pretty smooth but it is technically off-road). I feel like the regional and local routes have more trails, but maybe that's just around Bern. You can click on a stage in the map and then click "more info" and it will tell you the distances on asphalt and on natural surfaces.

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