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bumping this up - anyone know or is from Zurich?
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there is one place that's full of cunts, gorilla urban cycling, i'd avoid at all costs,ICS were based in Zurich , but they are pretty high spec customisers , (and I think they closed 2001) saw some Colnagos and other finery being ridden there so no doubt there will be a decent lbs somewhere there, the speedbicycles.ch proprietor is in Basel, if your into vintage/early carbon he may be able to give you some real pointers
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I haven't actually used any of these places, but some bike shops I've seen that might be of interest:
http://www.velo-citta.ch/ (looked in the window, looks quite good - saw a bunch of old brake levers, chain rings and stuff (don't know if they actually sell them!), think they mostly recondition old frames with newer groupsets, the staff looked pretty down to earth).
http://www.urbanrider.ch/ (serious (or pretentious?) looking fixie/single speed shop)
http://www.caprez-zueri5.ch/index.php/home (strange hybrid of a bike shop and old-skool electrical shop, I got some nice oldish campagnolo toe clips which were in the window, along with some old disk wheels and jerseys, and also some vintage hoovers)
http://www.raddna.ch/ (deadly serious swiss-style designer bike shop selling Genesis amongst others)
All of the above are a few minutes from each other, near the station, so worth a quick look around. This one is out of the town centre, lovely vintage roadster in the window when I went past, and the website looks promising, would guess it might be closest to what you're looking for:
Don't know much about any cycling scene or whatever cos I live in Brugg, but I've seen people doing what must have been this: http://styleride.ch/about/ Looked like they got into it quite properly.
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Thank you both for the responses. Really helpful - look forward to checking out some of these LBS' when I get there!
Anyone here from Zurich? Looking for LBS recommendations... ideally one that is like London Bike Kitchen / Micycle that allow you to use their tools and have a bike wash? Cheers