"In 2009, we tried to concrete a pump track," writes Claudio Caluori in his pump track memoirs. It worked, but asphalt turned out to be the surface they could work better with. They built the first asphalt pump track in Chur and it is still proving its worth today.

In Zurich, Velosolutions created the largest urban bike park at the time. Around the same time, the first track was built abroad, in Germany, in Lindlar, around 30 kilometers from Cologne.

And then it went in quick succession. Holland, England and, in 2014, the trip to Thailand. New York City was calling in 2015, Bali in 2016. In 2017, Velosolutions built the pump track at the Stevie Smith Memorial Bike Park in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In the same year, there was a track for Hyderabad in India and one in Chile.

In 2017, Claudio and his team also built the first Pump for Peace pump track in Lesotho. These facilities, built in disadvantaged regions as social meeting points, became another Velosolutions trademark.

In 2018, there were so many pump tracks around the world that it was time for a world championship. The first world champions were crowned in the USA, both from Switzerland: Christa von Niederhäusern and David Graf. One year later, the World Championships were held in Switzerland and the titles went to the USA, to Tommy Zula and Payton Ridenour.

Velosolutions, or Pump for Peace, also founded a Cross Country Race Team, which included Faranak Partoazar from Iran and Tumelo Makae from Lesotho.

After ten years, there are now 534 asphalt pump tracks. Or a few more again. If they had built them at regular intervals, there would be just over one a week. In fact, the pace has increased over the years. Several Velosolutions teams have long been building at different locations at the same time. If you want to browse the pump track database, you can do so here. There's a slideshow of the 534 pump tracks on YouTube.

And here, just because we think it's interesting, all the countries with an asphalt pump track from Velosolutions:
Argentina
Armenia
Austria
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
England
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Greece
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kenya
Japan
Latvia
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Scotland
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
USA
Wales