Ride editor Thomas Giger complains that mountain biking is no longer wild and rebellious. He blames this on a flood of retirees, triggered by the e-mountain bike. This allows untalented, uncool people to dominate the image of a sport that was once a lifestyle. Ride editor Stefan Michel does not stand for this senior bashing.

Does the Alps Epic Trail live up to its name? Commentators have been arguing about it for years in the Ride tour database. What's more, the section through the Zügen Gorge always causes bad blood. Ride editor Stefan Michel also wants to have his say and has therefore put the tour to the test.

With two mountain bikes on the train to Como - can't be that difficult. It wasn't in the end. But SBB still doesn't make it easy for us.

Is a 40 percent discount the lifebelt of a bike company or a nail in its coffin? Is it permissible to profit from the raging discount battle? Ride editor Stefan Michel asks the industry and gets clear answers.

On November 24, the Zug mountain bikers lost their fight against the forest law at the ballot box. The result shows the balance of power and should serve as a warning to other mountain bike organizations: We are too few to win votes. And also not important enough.

In a 132-page analysis, the canton of Zurich comes to the conclusion that there are too few single trails for local mountain bikers. Yet there are enough trails for everyone in the canton of Zurich. Building a trail for every biker within cycling distance of home is the wrong approach. Not only in the canton of Zurich.

Ride editor Stefan Michel prefers riding old trails to built bike trails. After a day in Engelberg, he has to partially revise his judgment. Or let's say: adjust it.

He doesn't do anything, he just wants to play. That's how it is. I'm happiest riding my mountain bike when I'm spending time on the trail with no purpose or goal - like children when they're playing.

Bikes are banned on the Augstmatthorn. On the Uetliberg, one authority has shown that another authority's bike ban does not comply with the law. The Tagesschau showed two extremes of bike policy in one report. Which approach will prevail will also be decided by us mountain bikers. A commentary by Ride editor Stefan Michel.

Most mountain bikers are looking for freedom and want to be restricted as little as possible by rules and crash barriers. But if the trail they are riding on is too wide, then riding is only half as much fun. He calls this the trail paradox, says Ride editor Stefan Michel in his blog.

An encounter with a forestry worker allowed Ride editor Stefan Michel to formulate what he had long felt: built routes are great, but he prefers to be lured out of his comfort zone by winding, blocked paths.

The accusation is almost as old as the mountain bike: cyclists in the great outdoors make life difficult for wild animals. A look at the figures does not disprove this, but puts the damage in a larger context, says Ride author Stefan Michel in his blog post.

Ride is often accused of giving away hiking tips; or worse still, of publicizing trails that were allowed to be ridden as long as only a few did, which was no longer the case. Our promise to you readers, however, is that we will show you the best trails and the most beautiful tours. An exploration by ride editor Stefan Michel.

Among the more than 1000 tours in the Ride database, there is exactly one in Valle Maggia. Ride editor Stefan Michel found out the hard way why this is the case.

Flow trails are ugly, wrote Ride editor Stefan Michel in the editorial of the first issue of 2021. The key message: while old footpaths merge with the terrain, built bike trails dominate the scenery in an intrusive manner. Trail builder Ueli Guntli does not accept this blanket judgment.