Lend a hand with trail maintenance in exchange for room and board in a biking paradise—that’s the deal at the trail-building camps. Adelboden-Lenk and Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis are hosting the next round this summer.

Central Switzerland declares itself a "bike cooperative". In recent months, however, a trail project was voted down and a newly paved path was closed to bikers. How much support do the bike cooperatives have in Central Switzerland, Thomy Vetterli?

Swiss television ventured onto the trail in the "Rundschau" programme and addressed mountain bikers' demands for modern infrastructure and recognition. The report shows how mountain bikers are increasingly being met with understanding by the authorities, but how things are not always easy. Especially not when, as in Andermatt, they are guided by 600-year-old laws.

A fresh mountain bike wind is currently blowing through Central Switzerland. The new volume of Singletrail Books fits the bill perfectly. The book, which has just been published, contains the 25 best singletrail tours between Gotthard and Einsiedeln. As always with the Singletrail Books: richly illustrated and with route maps for each tour.

Local mountain bikers are voicing their opposition to the planned ban on bikes in the Realper Bannwald forest. With an online petition, they want to emphasize that this trail is important for mountain bikers and that the planned ban will not be accepted without resistance.

The Urseren High Trail in Andermatt was recently renovated at great expense, with a special focus on mountain bikers. The result: one of the best bike routes in the canton of Uri. Now a bike ban is to be introduced on the descent from the Höhenweg down to Realp. The result is one of the most absurd actions in mountain bike infrastructure planning.

Chinzig Pass, Surenen Pass and Eggbergen are just a few of the interesting tours in Uri. Now the hotspot in Central Switzerland is also electrified: with the support of the federal government and canton, Uri is building a comprehensive network of charging infrastructure for e-bikes.

With the "MTB Zentralschweiz" project, the tourism organizations in Central Switzerland want to give their region a boost in terms of mountain biking. The brains behind it: Thomy Vetterli. He will explain the background to the project at the Ride Congress in September, but has already outlined the direction in an interview with Ride.

Something is happening in Central Switzerland! A workshop with the region's certified mountain bike guides was the start. Now the aim is to further develop the bike destination of Central Switzerland together.