Comprehensive training as the basis

"A first-class nature experience on trails and paths as well as more than 300 well-trained mountain bike guides: Switzerland offers optimal conditions for our commitment to e-mountain biking," explains Claus Fleischer, Head of the Bosch E-Bike Systems product division. Together with Swiss Cycling, Bosch wants to promote the sustainable development of e-MTBs in the Alpine region. The Swiss Cycling umbrella organization, founded in 1883, has been offering training courses for mountain bike guides since 2004. For the coming season, the offer will be expanded to include the electrically assisted version.

Markus Pfisterer, Managing Director of Swiss Cycling, explains the reasons: "E-mountain bikes are becoming increasingly popular and are reaching ever wider user groups. Swiss Cycling sees this trend as an opportunity and a great need. We are delighted to be tackling the eMountain bike courses project together with Bosch eBike Systems."Get to know a new riding experience
The courses focus on traffic and behavior rules as well as mastering the e-bike. "E-mountainbike courses offer interested parties the opportunity to get to know the new riding experience, learn more and have lots of fun off-road," says Fleischer.

This is the first time that a national provider is offering specific safety courses and riding training for popular sports. Pfisterer explains: "We want to teach participants how to treat the environment and other user groups responsibly and considerately in order to counteract uncertainty and reservations."

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