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MTB Technique Discussion

Dave — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 11:57:27 +0000

Based on a Blog post from Swiss Alpine Adventure, I thought this might be an interesting place to try and open an MTB technique discussion. What was the tip that helped you the most to progress in your MTB career?

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https://swissalpineadventure.com/2022/04/trail-tips-basic-mtb-skills/

Bikepacking/MTB multi day adventure

r3drock — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:33:55 +0000

Hi fellow MTB-ers! I am thinking to organize this year (2022) some 2-3 day rides where ride trails during the day, but we sleep in the mountains during the night. This could be huts or doing light bikepacking where we are sleeping in tents above the treeline and the next day we ride some trails again.

An example for a 2 day ride would be riding from Lenzerheide (Parpaner Rothorn) to Arosa, sleep at Ramozhutte at Welschtobel valley and riding back the next day.

I want to see if there is any interest in such adventures. Please let me know if you would be interested and your opinion about such activity.

Cheers

Szabi

Ride.ch adds 30% more trails to their route planner

vegasbrianc — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:15:01 +0000

Following on David's email it seems a lot of people have had time to add more rides to the Ride.ch database. They added 258 tours / 13'000km's to their route planner. I'm already counting the days till MTB season - https://www.ride.ch/de/news/das-war-die-trail-ausbeute-des-jahrs-2021

Grinduro Switzerland Race

vegasbrianc — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:24:25 +0000

October Ageri will host the Grinduro race/party weekend. It is aimed at gravel bikes but all non-electric bikes can also participate.

https://grinduro.com/switzerland.php

Route Planning - Road - How do you plan your road rides?

Iain — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:36:20 +0000

At least for me, cycling on the road, or off road, is about adventure, fun and discovering new places. Many people associate road riding with pollution, danger, busy roads and honking cars. Or doing another lap of Lake Zug on those busy main roads! Well it doesn't have to be like this....

As well as an MTB paradise, CH, or at least the ZH / ZG area, is full of cycle tracks, quite roads and asphalted agricultural lanes which are perfect for road riding. An absolute classic from Baar is along the Reus up to Bremgarten where you can ride quite lanes or bike paths nearly the whole of the 50km route. And there are many more such examples especially if you are prepared to ride a little gravel.

As humans have a tendency to repeat behaviour and stick to what they know, I have started route planning a little differently. Rather than just 'follow my nose' and going riding, I plan a route using Google maps and follow this. This 'forces' me to usually take a non standard route. It is dead easy and brings variety into my rides:

* Pick a destination as far as you want to go

* Use the navigate function in Google and click the cycling icon

* Add a couple of 'VIA's on the way there and different ones on the way back and allow Google to build the route.

* Copy the URL and use https://mapstogpx.com/ to create a GPX track.

This will certainly not work in all areas of the world but here I have had a lot of fun with it and some great rides. It is not always 100% (but that would be boring!) - my last ride had a steep gravel descent and took me up a flight of stairs. Otherwise it was excellent and 90% out of the traffic.

If you are feeling more adventurous, you can use the hiking function...I find this also works for 'road' rides as the trails on there are mainly just gravel.

Anyone else have road ride planning tips?

Trail conditions

r3drock — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:20:37 +0000

Generic MTB topic about the current conditions of trails. (muddy, still snow on trail, partially closed etc.)

Lopper trail near Hergiswil is not muddy
Uetliberg Antenna trail is not muddy, but there are some big holes formed from heavy use

Miss MTB :)

AB — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:10:12 +0000

I miss MTB ?