Now that the Bikepark Thunersee association has found a suitable partner in AEK Bank, the association is launching the AEK Pump Track Tour in spring 2020 with a new, mobile pump track. The new facility will be inaugurated at the Swatch Rocket Air event from 1-2 May 2020 at the Thun ice rink.

The AEK pump track will then tour around Lake Thun and give numerous people access to biking. Municipalities, clubs and schools can now book the new feature on the website of the Bikepark Thunersee association. The first step will be to restrict the area. Only organizations located in the Thun development area of the Oberland Ost regional conference, sub-district 1, will be entitled to use it. Project manager Barbara Linder explains that the aim is not to get bogged down, but to concentrate on a defined radius.

However, the idea of a pump track tour is not new. Cantons such as Bern, Solothurn, Zurich, Nidwalden and others already offer such tours and are always fully booked. The new AEK Pumptrack Tour is not intended to compete with those of the canton. Rather, Marc Ringgenberg, Head of Sports Promotion at the Sports Department of the Canton of Bern, sees the new private offer as a supplement.

The AEK Pumptrack Tour is just one piece of the puzzle in the association's vision. According to Marketing Manager Jérôme Hunziker, the Bikepark Thunersee association wants to use the project to shake up the municipalities and the population and demonstrate the great potential of cycling in the Bernese Oberland. Ideally, a pump track would be indispensable after the one-month test phase, Hunziker continued.

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