Article 213 paragraph 1ter of the VTS ordinance currently specifies the tariff: Bicycle handlebars may or must be between 40 and 70 centimetres wide. And on modern mountain bikes, the handlebars have long been longer than 70 centimetres, with widths having "settled" between 720 and 760 to a maximum of 800 millimetres.

This width requirement of between 40 and 70 centimetres will be abolished on January 15, 2017, and the corresponding articles will be deleted from the ordinance. Handlebars can then be as wide as the maximum permitted width of a bike, i.e. up to one meter. This should be more than enough, even for extremely gravity-oriented bikes. The regulation in question also always stipulated a requirement for a bell on the bike, unless the bike weighs less than 11 kilos. This will also come to an end on January 15, 2017: bicycles will no longer need a bell.www.astra.admin.ch