Ride is no longer a mundane Swiss MTB magazine. Although its DNA still lies in Switzerland, today Ride is an alpine-wide trail service provider with its tour database and the Singletrail Map web map. The Swiss flair for bike trails is being extended as a model for success.

The figures show a clear edge: the tour database grew significantly again in 2022, with 546 new singletrail tours being researched and activated. The focus was on the Palatinate, the Black Forest, the Bavarian Prealps and Trentino. However, entries were also added in the French Alps as well as in the Zillertal, Inntal, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and on the islands of Cran Ganaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Santiago (Cape Verde).

At the end of the year, Ride had a total of 1675 researched routes, significantly expanding its position as the most important and largest platform for singletrail tours in the Alps.

• New tours recorded in 2022: ride.ch/en/tours?year=2022
• Total tours database: ride.ch/tours
• Number of prepared tours: 1675 (+48% in 2022)
• Number of tour comments: 2879 (745 comments in 2022)
• Distribution: Switzerland: 683 tours (40%); Italy: 714 tours (42%); Germany: 130 tours (8%); Austria: 113 tours (7%)

Map overview of the ride tours

Single trail map: Offensive in the Black Forest, Bavaria and Gran Canaria

Most of the ride tours are based on the Singletrail Map web map. The huge tour network with the classification of trails into MTB difficulty levels grew by 25 percent in 2022 in parallel with the tour database, which corresponds to 33,000 kilometers. Welcome to Germany here too! The focus of the expansion in 2022 was on southern Germany. New routes were added in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Savoy and Liguria, but above all on the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria) and Cape Verde (Santiago, Santo Antao).

Facts Singletrail Map

• Access the web map of the Singletrail Map: ride.ch/singletrailmap
• Total length of the route network: 169,000 kilometers
• Number of mountain railroads with bike transport: 650
• Number of bike stores: 175

Map overview of the route network of the Singletrail Map

The show must go on

The (little) snow in the Alps is currently melting away like butter in a pan of spaetzle. This means that Ride will soon be clearing the way for the next research projects. The significant expansion in 2022 will continue this year. Ride always has one goal in mind: wherever readers are drawn to, they should be able to find a neatly prepared singletrail route on Ride.ch or be inspired by the web map. There is still a long way to go. But after all, the journey is the reward.