The moxxis Guide to Zurich. A Day in Zürich on Two Wheels
- May 22
- 8 min read
Updated: May 29
Zürich is a city best explored by bike. Located at the head of a lake, surrounded by hills, and intersected by two rivers, it’s compact enough to enjoy a full day of activities. You can have coffee in the old town, shop for gear from knowledgeable staff, enjoy lunch in Wiedikon, and watch the sunset in Küsnacht—all without traffic hassles. The tram lines and bike lanes are cyclist-friendly, allowing you to discover local spots and businesses easily. Start your journey at moxxis on Augustinergasse, loop through the city's top cycling spots, and then head along the lake. Every guide in this series begins and ends at moxxis, ensuring you're always ready for the ride.
hen your feet are right for the ride.
This guide is a collaboration between moxxis and Nohzee, two brands that believe the best way to experience a city is to move through it. Nohzee knows travel. moxxis knows what keeps you moving. Together, we handed the route to Olivia Garcin, whose eye for the right place at the right time makes this more than a list. It's a day worth having.
Start here: moxxis, Augustinergasse 12
Before the road, your feet.
Augustinergasse is a medieval lane through Zürich's inner-city pedestrian zone, named after the Augustinian Abbey that now stands as Augustinerkirche. Its well-preserved, colourfully painted bay windows connect busy Bahnhofstrasse with the former Gothic church and continue to St. Peterhofstatt square. It is one of the most characterful streets in Zürich, and it is where you will find the moxxis Concept Store at number 12.
This is where your moxxis are made, on-site, in under 60 minutes. The starting point is a dynamic foot analysis: a 3D scan and short gait analysis that captures your foot shape and your pressure distribution while walking. The data is processed with AI support and translated into the precise form your foot needs. Before printing starts, you personalize your moxxis with a name, a mantra, or a nickname. Sixty minutes later, they are ready, made in Switzerland, built on orthopedic expertise.
Cycling rewards small differences. Pressure distribution. Foot stability through the pedal stroke. Comfort on hour four of a Sunday loop along the lake. Your moxxis change how long you can hold the watts you already have, and how good your feet feel when you clip out.
Insider tip: The foot analysis and foot report are free, for everyone. No purchase required. Walk in, get your feet analyzed, and find out what your foot has to say. Book your slot here.
Haven't been fitted yet? Start here. Already have your moxxis? Clip in and head out. Zürich is waiting.
Neighbor Coffee, Augustinergasse
Coffee first. The shop sits right next to moxxis, which makes the start of the ride a short walk and a long espresso.
The team is genuinely warm, the kind of welcome that turns a quick coffee into a slow one. The espresso is the proper start to a day on the bike, and the room is bright, easy, and full of good energy. Order, sit a moment, then clip in. The day is ahead of you, and it already feels like it is going beautifully.
A note on logistics: pedestrian rules apply on Augustinergasse. Walk the bike from the moxxis door to the lane outside, clip in beyond the cobbles, and you are off.
Cycle Store, Werdmühleplatz
A few minutes from the old town, on the corner of Werdmühlestrasse and Werdmühleplatz, Cycle Store has been the city's most serious road and gravel address since 2017. The edit reads like a list of brands that people who actually ride know by heart: Specialized, BMC, Pas Normal Studios, MAAP, Rapha, Café du Cycliste, POC, Kask, Giro.
There is a café on the floor, a bike-fit studio with proper diagnostic equipment, a workshop, and a rental fleet that will put you on a performance bike for the afternoon. The Cycle Store Zurich Cycling Club rides into the hills on weekends with coaching support for members.
You walk in to look around, and you leave wanting to clip in.
The Run Store, Niederdorf
Across the Limmat in the old town, the little sister to Cycle Store.
The Run Store carries the same eye for product, tuned for runners. The shelves run the deep specialty list: Nike, On, Hoka, Salomon, Adidas, Arc'teryx, Ciele, District Vision, Houdini, Nnormal, Norda, Pas Normal Studios, Soar, plus Garmin and Maurten for the watch and the gels. It is the shop you visit when you take running as a year-round habit, not a January resolution.
Worth the short ride across the river if you split your weeks between saddle and road.
Q36.5 Flagship, Bärengasse
A short spin south, near Paradeplatz, brings you to Bärengasse 10, where Q36.5 has built one of the most considered cycling stores in Europe.
Q36.5 is the Italian-Swiss apparel brand named after the body's ideal core temperature. The kit is engineered for that exact figure, and the staff in the Zürich flagship are deeply technical. The service is excellent and the advice comes from people who actually ride. The store also stocks the Q36.5 x SRM shoe-pedal system, and you can test bibs on Zwift before you buy. Custom orders and crash repairs are part of the offer.
The kind of shop where you ask one question and leave with three answers.
La Bottega di Pinarello
Inside the same world, the bikes.
La Bottega di Pinarello opened at Bärengasse 10 on 1 October 2024, the Italian marque's flagship in Zürich. Pinarello has put riders on top of the Tour de France podium repeatedly (Indurain in the 1990s; the more recent Sky and INEOS era), and the showroom carries the full road, gravel, and time-trial range. On display are historic frames and signed jerseys, including the Dogma XC that Tom Pidcock rode to Olympic mountain-bike gold in Paris 2024.
If you came to look at frames, this is where you stop.
Bloom Society, Bleicherweg
A few streets further on, your daily ritual stop.
Bloom Society was opened on Bleicherweg by Adriana and Fernando ("Adri and Fer"), and the city has not stopped queuing since. Coffee, açaí bowls, froyo, smoothies, matcha, avocado toasts. The strawberry-matcha drink went viral for a reason. The room functions equally as a café, a juice bar, and a co-working corner with friendly owners who actually run the floor. Featured in both Falstaff and NZZ Bellevue.
Pick one bowl. Refuel. The afternoon is longer than it looks.
Campo, Helvetiaplatz
From Bleicherweg, push west across the river toward Helvetiaplatz.
Campo sits in the ground floor of a recently renovated concrete building at the centre of the square. The room is by the team behind La Stanza, which is the cleanest signal for the operation: Italian, exact, and warm. Douglas-fir slats break the concrete walls, woven seagrass chairs, wooden bar counters. Outside, a 60-seat terrace catches the sun across Helvetiaplatz.
Cornetti and pastries for breakfast. Warm panini at lunch. Aperitivo when the light shifts. Brunch on weekends. Time it right and you can lock the bike for an hour, sit outside, and watch the city move past.
Tsugi Bakery, Rotbuchstrasse
Tsugi is the microbakery that has Zürich queuing on Saturday mornings, and one of the most joyful stops on the ride. The name means hand to hand, link, next in Japanese, and Jinny Watanabe and Basil Nufer bake everything from scratch every morning. The shokupan is the headliner: a tall, soft, slightly sweet Japanese milk loaf that tears into clouds and makes the rest of the week feel underbaked. Around it, a rotating cast of small joys, miso-sesame sablés, cardamom buns, an algae croissant if you are feeling adventurous. Pastel-bright shelves, warm faces behind the counter, and the smell of butter and matcha greeting you at the door.
Time the ride so you arrive before the shokupan sells out. Slip a warm loaf into your bag. Eat the first slice before you make it home, because waiting is asking too much of yourself.
Slow Goods, Wiedikon
You are now in Kreis 3, also known as Wiedikon, the city's quietly excellent answer to a slower kind of Saturday.
Slow Goods sits on Badenerstrasse and lives up to its name. Linen. Ceramics. Hand-turned porcelain vases and mugs. Hand-blown drinking glasses. Decorative salts. The kind of objects you keep for a decade and notice every time you reach for them. Nothing is hurried. Nothing is mass.
The kind of place that makes you slow down on a fast day, which is exactly the point.
Bar Sacchi, Wiedikon
A few minutes further into Wiedikon, near the Lochergut, Bar Sacchi pours what regulars call the best Negroni in the city. The room reads like a Milanese interior in miniature: dusky pink walls, green leather upholstery, marble tables, 1950s lamps. The Negroni comes in self-mixed variants dispensed from a soda gun, a small piece of theatre that earns its place. Owner Claudio Sacchi often walks the floor and explains the specialties himself. In the morning the bar serves coffee and vegan pastries. In the evening the neighbourhood gathers for one drink, then another.
A pinch of Italianità in a city that loves it.
Fabrikat, Militärstrasse 76
A short ride out of Wiedikon brings you to the corner of Militärstrasse and Ankerstrasse, where Fabrikat has held court since 2014. Stepping in feels like taking a trip back in time. The interior was built over eighteen months and would not look out of place in a Jules Verne novel, dark wood, brass detailing, glass cabinets, everything staged with care. The shelves hold more than eighty little treasures from small workshops in Europe, Japan, and the United States: Japanese steel toolboxes, English pencil rolls, Italian notebooks, French kitchen kit. The owners call it a Cabinet of Curiosities, and it earns the name. You step in to look around. You are bound to leave with a little something.
Coucou, Röntgenplatz
Back across the city to District 5 and the small triangle of Röntgenplatz, where Coucou opened at the end of June 2025.
The room is airy and built for an entire day. Coffee in the morning, scones, small plates, lunch, an aperitivo, dinner. Three restaurateurs run it together and the prices stay reasonable for the neighbourhood. Coucou is the first proper restaurant on the Röntgenplatz itself, and the locals have already adopted it as a living room.
The kind of place that makes you stay an hour longer than you planned.
The Mix, Seefeld
Some rides are outdoors. Some are indoors with a good playlist.
The Mix (THE MIX MVMT) is the boutique studio in Seefeld where Zürich goes to ride indoors. The studio runs BARRE, RAVE, RIDE, and RESTORE classes, and the indoor cycling session is a forty-five-minute set built around the beat. A great track list. A room with good light. Inside the studio, Rise & Grind serves coffee before and after.
If the weather closes in on your outdoor day, this is the indoor version.
Marina Goldbach Bootshaus, Küsnacht
Now the long, easy stretch out of the city, along the lake to Küsnacht.
Marina Goldbach is a converted boat-house waiting station on the Goldküste shore. Beat Egli took it over and turned it into a small lakeside bistro for burgers and drinks. Three minutes on foot from the S-Bahn station Goldbach if your legs are done; about thirty minutes by bike from Bürkliplatz along the eastern shore. The terrace opens in good weather and closes when the thermometer drops below 15°C, which means it is at its best on the kind of afternoons you came out to ride for.
Probably one of Olivia’s favourite spots when the weather is kind. Very chill. Almost like a vacation. And the sunsets are some of the most beautiful the lake gives you.
Sit. Eat. Watch the light go.
End here: back to Augustinergasse
The road home runs back along the lake into the old town. A short climb up to the church, a slower cadence, the kind of return that earns the coffee waiting at the start.
A full day in Zürich on two wheels, coffee, gear, breakfast on Bleicherweg, a long Italian afternoon in Wiedikon, dinner on the lake, lands differently when your feet are right for it. You ride further. You stay later. Come back past moxxis on your way home. You will know the difference.
See you on the next Zürich guide.;)
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Fotos © Olivia Garcin. Eine moxxis × Nohzee Collaboration.
moxxis Concept Store Zürich, Augustinergasse, 8001 Zürich
