From Zurich to Paris on the Solex

Die Solex hatte vor Jahrzehnten Kultstatus, heute ist sie ein Sammlerstück.

Die Solex hatte vor Jahrzehnten Kultstatus, heute ist sie ein Sammlerstück. Source: Adrian Plitzco

What makes six grown-up men to ride on a vintage one cylinder moped 700 kilometres from Zurich to Paris? Just fun or pure naivity? The road trip turns out to be both: the best ever thing and a real ordeal filled with uncountable engine breakdowns. The first stage takes the group just across the border to Germany, 60 kilometres north of Zurich.



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