Noisy, polluting, slow … and yet popular again. The mopeds, also affectionately nicknamed “teufs” or “boats”, know A real return to grace in Switzerland.
The mopeds were essential on the roads of Switzerland in the 1970s and 1980s. We then counted more than half a million, but they were then largely neglected. Like telephone boxes, typewriters or other checks of checks, mopeds could have sank into the forgetfulness of history, supplanted by scooters or other electric bikes, more efficient and more trendy.
Statistics show, however, that the trend is reversed and that The number of registered vehicles is up in several cantons. In that of Zurich, for example, it went from 12,500 in 2014 to 14,500 ten years later. Proof of this popularity found, the number of events linked to mopeds is also upwards, as is the price of old models. For example, a two -speed puch that cost just over 1000 francs in the 1970s can reach 7,500 francs today.
It remains to explain this return to grace. For an organizer of moped towers in the canton of Zug, interviewed by SRF News, it has a lot to do with nostalgia. “On a bug, we are again 14 years old. We feel young “says Willy Wermelinger. Very simple design, the moped also allows you to easily indulge in DIY.
