You can’t get much more central in the Alps than Andermatt, but for me it’s often been a place of passing through rather than a destination in itself. At the point where many of the main Swiss passes meets it’s easy to overlook Andermatt as a bike destination in it’s Read more
The sun was already quite high in the sky as I opened my eyes, maps, bike shoes and backpacks lay strewn across the floor. Our bikes were snuggled into the space between the bed and the window in the tiny hotel room. The hotel had no bike storage so we Read more
Autumn has come and as I write the trails are as good as they’ve been all year. Dry, dusty and leaf strewn trails with colours straight out of a post card are there to greet anyone who is getting out of the house on weekends and enjoy the amazing playground Read more
It was always going to be risky going looking for new trails in the height of the summer holiday season. But, even at the busiest times of the year you can always find trails to yourself if you look hard enough. We enjoyed a few days in the Aletsch area Read more
Sometimes those tours that we did way back when I first came to Switzerland can be forgotten about and it’s only when you go back to do them again with a group that you realise how much fun they really were. I first rode the route Einsiedeln – Hoch-ybrig – Read more
Swiss Alpine Adventure came about almost as an accident. After attending a bike event in 2007 a friend suggested that it might be a good idea to organise some group rides for newcomers to the Zurich area to show them some of the local trails and to provide a way Read more
With the weather we are currently having I think it’s say bike season is in full swing. We’ve been out and about on the bikes for a few months already and already completed the season opening MTB Tour of Lake Zurich in three stages. Since then we’ve been making the Read more
We just got a new camera and put together a short video from one of our recent group rides. This was stage 2 of our tour of lake Zurich. Stage 3 is coming up next Saturday (April 2nd 2011). Sorry about the poor quality, I’m still coming to grips with Read more
Check out this pretty sweet trailer for a new MTB film that seems to put the trail into Trail Riding. Pretty Sweet Teaser from David M on Vimeo. More info on their blog
Day 3: Into Wallis.After the disappointment of day 2 we had high hopes for day 3. Having done the exact route a few weeks earlier I knew that if the weather stayed good it would be a lot of fun, however the forecast was for rain. We woke at 7am Read more