The original plan called for getting back to Vienna with some time left to see some of Vienna before we had to repack the bikes for the return flight. One of the places that I wanted to visit was B.I.E.R. Fahrrad-Studio in Baden. This is the ONLY recumbent bike store in all of Austria.  After getting kicked out of the Stop & Sleep for 1 night, we headed South out of Fischamend toward Baden at around 8:45.

Along the route, we had to cross several railroad tracks & spurs often at very oblique angles. Just after I crossed one spur, I was passed by one of the many M·A·N 18 wheelers.  I looked in my rearview mirror to see Bob getting up off the tracks. He was not hurt but the M·A·N 18 wheeler had not given him enough room to make the track angle.

In Gramatneusiedl about 20km from Fischamend, we found a Gasthof for Thursday night. We dumped our panniers and continued South to Baden. Once we reached Baden, we kinda wandered around town looking for B.I.E.R. Fahrrad Studio.  While researching the trip on the internet, I had located B.I.E.R. Fahrrad-Studio on a map of Baden, made a mental note of the location and never made a real note of the address.  So, here I was trying to find a place in a foreign city that I had never seen and trying to remember the name of the street that I had seen on a computer monitor.  After quite a while with no success, I was beginning to wish that I had been more diligent in getting the correct address off the internet. When ever we stopped some one to ask, The knew of no bicycle shops in Baden much less one that sold recumbents. We got a local city map from a hotel in the city and I made several wrong guesses on the street from the map and my poor memory. One of those wrong guesses took us up a very steep hill into an upsacale residential section of town.  Climbing steep hills on a 'wild goose chase' is not the normal recumbent endevor.  I was about to give up and was going for my last guess on Jagerhausgasse when I spotted B.I.E.R. Fahrrad-Studio.

Wolfgang Ambrosch of B.I.E.R. Fahrrad-Studio

The owner Wolfgang Ambrosch was quite pleased to see us and mentioned that mine was the first RANS that he had seen. I asked to ride the HP-Velotechnic StreetMachine only to find that the boom, chain and derailleur were adjusted for a much taller person. Bob was sufficiently long in the leg to test the bike. I got to sit in it and I got to photograph Bob.

HP-Velotechnic with Bob "Laid back and lovin' it"

HP-Velotechnic with Bob and Wolfgang

After visiting B.I.E.R. Fahrrad Studio, we ate lunch at a lakeside cafe in Baden and returned to our gasthof in Gramatneusiedl for Thursday to shower and catch the train to Vienna.  In Vienna, we rode the trolley and subway to the center of the city where we people watched, found an internet connection, ate dinner at an Italian outdoor café and caught the 9:20PM train back to Gramatneusiedl.

Gramatneusiedl Station and SnellBahn

Electric 3-Wheeler in Gramatneusiedl