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The Swiss Bike Park is a social project, a place for
everyone, both professional and amateur cyclists.
It combines the needs of different users and is an
interesting platform for training and experience. Can
you describe how this place is lived and used? What
happens here every day? What kind of visitors do
you welcome?
The Swiss Bike Park is a social project for everyone:
every year we welcome over 26.000 park visitors,
including 15.000 children! Our park is open to
everyone - amateur, elite and disabled athletes - free
of charge. Children, school classes, older people, the
national mountain bike teams, everyone is welcome
here. It’s the togetherness that makes our park so
special!
We focus on “experiencing and learning”, but of
course we never forget to have fun! The safety of our
visitors is important to us.
Sport is healthy, fun and brings people together,
that’s what we want to live at the Swiss Bike Park.
The Swiss Park is also a leading project in terms
of accessibility for people with disabilities. In what
ways this “inclusion spirit” is expressed?
The Swiss Bike Park is a place of movement and also
a place of encounter. To ensure that everyone can
take part in our social project and meet each other,
we have focussed on accessibility.
On one hand, all rooms inside the building are easily
accessible by wheelchair and all door frames are
extra wide so that wheelchairs can move around
the building without any problems. Naturally, all
toilets and shower rooms in the park are also easily
accessible by wheelchair and are tailored to the needs
of people with a corresponding impairment.
On the other hand, care has also been taken outside
the building to create the best possible conditions
for wheelchair users: the cobblestones have been
specially laid without joints so that wheelchairs can
glide better over this surface.
Inclusion is an important topic at the Swiss Bike
Park, which is why an induction loop for people with
a hearing impairment has been installed in one of our
lecture rooms; in addition, numerous control panels
(for example in the lift) are also labelled in Braille.
Through this park, your foundation promotes
sporting activity, but also the healthy and safe use
of bicycles among the entire population. You have a
broad mission, aimed not only at “bike fans” but at
the whole nation.
What kind of cultural events take place in the park?
What are your strategies and goals for the future?
How is the tourism responding to your proposal?
The Swiss Bike Park building is called the
“Clubhouse” because the platform should not only
belong to us, but to everyone who visits the park and
is therefore part of the “club”. Everyone who gets
involved here should be part of the story and have
a direct benefit, and with MyBikeDay (MyBikeDay -
Bike4Kids) we are hosting the biggest Swiss event
for young cyclists.
Young people from all over Switzerland travel to the
Swiss Bike Park as the final event, where they can
expect the coolest challenges (with and without
bikes) great bands, food and chill village, celebrity
guests and much more.
We have also founded the Swiss National Veloforum
(www.veloforum.ch). The Veloforum is the most
important national platform for cycling and brings
together the areas of leisure, mobility, sport,
technology and transformation, and our park can
also provide a wonderful and incomparable setting
for concerts, events and celebrations of all kinds.
Sarina Huber
“The Swiss Bike Park is a
social project for everyone.
Sport is healthy, fun
and brings people together,
that’s what we want to live at
the Swiss Bike Park.”
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