“The idea of a bike park for bike fans grew into the vision of a unifying project for the whole of Switzerland.”
“We want to make Switzerland a better place by bike — by positively influencing the climate, health and the way we live together.”
Stiftung Swiss Bike Park is a unifying project for the whole of Switzerland: it promotes exercise and health, sustainable mobility, and safety and prevention on the bike.
“The purpose of the Foundation is to promote sporting and health-enhancing activity among the Swiss population. Its main focus is on cycling.” — non-profit and without any profit motive, guided by the core principle “Experience & Learn”.
30,000 m²Park grounds — free of charge and open to everyone
26,000visitors per year
10,000+children and young people per year
Making Switzerland a better place by bike
The Foundation concentrates its impact on three focus areas — from grassroots sport and sustainable mobility to national prevention work.
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Focus area 01
Movement & Health
Cycling is probably the most natural way to get people of all ages moving. The Foundation makes starting out as easy as possible — “the perfect training and unforgettable biking fun for every age and every level”.
J+S seasonal courses — MTB and Pump & Jump, March to September
Camps — slopestyle and MTB, bilingual German/French, plus girls-only camps
“Ready to Ride” — free taster session
Schools & Ferienpass — special rates, guided rides and bike rental
MyBikeDay — national experience day for school classes
Next generation — Sports Academy, Valiant GP, training base for the national teams
10,000+children and young people are reached by the Foundation every year — through school visits, camps and J+S.
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Focus area 02
Sustainability & Mobility
Around 30% of Switzerland’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transport, and around 50% of commuters travel by car (EnergieSchweiz). The bike is part of the answer — and the Foundation builds the bridge from leisure to everyday life.
RideSmart — workplace cycling promotion for companies, in cooperation with EnergieSchweiz
Competence Centre “Swiss Tourism and the Bike” — 13 tourism partners and bike packages
Bike2school — in 2026, an expected 1.2 million bike kilometres on the way to school
Minergie-A operations building (2023) — 75 kW PV system, Swiss timber hybrid construction, district heating and heat pump
360 trees planted and sustainable travel to the park — PubliBike promotion, shuttle from Thörishaus Dorf
“With RideSmart, we want to empower companies to rethink mobility. A sustainable mobility culture begins in everyday life…”
Thomas Binggeli, Foundation Board
1.2 million kmis the distance children are expected to cycle to school with Bike2school in 2026 — roughly 30 times around the Earth.
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Focus area 03
Safety & Prevention
“The Foundation promotes healthy and safe use of the bicycle by children and young people and, alongside technical and riding skills, aims to teach them safe and considerate behaviour in road traffic.”
Purpose clause of the Foundation
ITRS — International Trail Rating System — objective five-level trail rating, developed with IMBA Europe, supported by SECO Innotour
bfu guide “Bike and Skate Parks” — (full-face) helmet and body protection recommendations, starting with small features
bikecontrol — riding safety programme as part of the MyBikeDay alliance
How-to videos — digital learning aids for the whole of society, with Swisscom, Mobiliar, ÖKK and BKW
Guides with bfu training — bfu E-Bike Instructors and J+S leaders
Veloforum — national platform for cycling policy: mobility, innovation, participation
>1,300riders took part in the ITRS development survey — attracting international interest.
Inclusion
«A place of movement becomes a place of encounter, too — entirely in the spirit of inclusion.»
Handbike taster courses, the Cerebral Bike Day and special bikes such as the JST Multidrive all-terrain wheelchair open up the park to people with disabilities — together with partners such as PluSport and ORTHO-TEAM.
Free handbike taster courses
All-terrain wheelchair (JST Multidrive) on the trail
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«No one is too old or too young for it.»
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Impact far beyond Oberried
The Foundation develops programmes, standards and platforms that take effect across Switzerland — from trail ratings to cycling policy.
National training race in the Swiss Bike Park — the Foundation is the training base of the national teams.
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>1,300 survey participants
ITRS — International Trail Rating System
Objective five-level rating system for mountain bike trails: technique, endurance, exposure and wilderness.
IMBA Europe
SECO Innotour
Active 2025/26
RideSmart
Workplace cycling promotion for companies — with free advice and a toolkit.
EnergieSchweiz
Thömus
Next edition: 14 September 2026, BERNEXPO
Veloforum Schweiz
National networking platform for cycling policy — politics, public administration, academia and sport at one table.
Swiss Cycling
Stiftung Swiss Bike Park
24 June 2026 · ~600 children
MyBikeDay
National cycling experience day for school classes across Switzerland.
Pro Velo
bikecontrol
DÉFI VELO
Stiftung Freude herrscht
CHF 5,000 per team · max. 20 teams
Bike4Kids
Charity team event on two wheels — the proceeds fund the MyBikeDay.
Stiftung Freude herrscht
Ongoing
Competence Centre “Swiss Tourism and the Bike”
Knowledge and product platform for bike tourism — including bike packages.
13 tourism partners
Alumni include Marc Hirschi, Kathrin Stirnemann, Luke Wiedmann
Sports Academy Solothurn
Training base for the cycling classes — elite sport and school combined.
Since April 2021
4 funding conditions
National bike park funding
Supports public, holistic bike park projects across Switzerland: for all age groups, inclusive, focused on riding safety, health and mobility — open to the public and free of charge or very affordable.
Nationwide
~350 trained
Snow sports instructors become bike guides
Training snow sports instructors to become bike guides — for year-round employment.
Swiss Snowsports
Swiss Cycling
~200 children at the finale
Valiant GP
National kids’ downhill race series for the U5 to U13 categories — the season finale takes place in the Swiss Bike Park.
Kids’ race series
Digital & innovative
Swiss Bike Park App & A-Sport
Transponder-free timing and AI-based jump analysis — innovation right on the trail.
Liip
Swisscom
What the Foundation sets in motion
Impact in figures
26,000visitors per year
10,000+children and young people per year
40,000+children per year in the national programmes
1.2 million kmBike2school bike kilometres on the way to school (2026, projected)
Stiftung Cerebral · Walter Haefner Stiftung · Schweizer Paraplegiker-Stiftung · PluSport · ORTHO-TEAM · Ernst Göhner Stiftung · Stiftung Denk an mich · Schweizer Paraplegiker Vereinigung, among others
Suppliers
Avesco · Input Consulting · PubliBike · Creaholic · Flying Metal · Velosolutions, among others
from politics, business and sport champion the Foundation’s vision.
Co-chairs: Flavia Wasserfallen and Werner Salzmann, members of the Council of States
Also involved: former Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann · Urs Wietlisbach (Partners Group / Sporthilfe) · Margarita Louis-Dreyfus · Yozo Shimano (SHIMANO Japan) · Jürg Stahl (Swiss Olympic) · Urs Lehmann (Swiss-Ski) · Mathias Flückiger · Christoph Sauser · Alessandra Keller
Lighthouse project
The park as a lighthouse
Since its opening in October 2019, the site in Oberried near Bern has grown “from a greenfield site into what is probably the largest bike park in Switzerland”.
“As an attractive meeting place and venue for prevention for the entire population, it acts as a lighthouse project and a tourist magnet, connecting the needs of elite, grassroots and disability sport.”
Admission is free: the entire facility is open to the public at no charge. The Red Bull UCI Pump Track World Championships were held here back in 2019.
Free admission
30,000 m²
Red Bull UCI Worlds · 5,000
25% of visitors from French-speaking Switzerland
2021: nominated for the Milestone Innovation Award
Whether as a member, as a team at Bike4Kids or as a partner of the Foundation — every contribution goes directly into the three focus areas.
Member Club
TopDiamondCHF 5,000per year
PlatinumCHF 2,000per year
Active FamilyCHF 500per year
ActiveCHF 250per year
Bike4Kids
Charity team event in aid of the MyBikeDay
Teams from business and sport ride for a good cause: the proceeds fund the MyBikeDay, the national experience day for school classes. CHF 5,000 per team, maximum 20 teams.
Organised with Stiftung Freude herrscht.
CHF 30,000in donations was raised at the 2023 edition.
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