Our Jersey and Kit are on Sale !

We plan on shipping on May 21st, but we suggest everyone does a pre-order because we are making a very small number (300 jerseys, 200 shirts, 100 bibs, 55 jackets ! Hurry !)

Swiss classic Jersey 79 Chf ! Swiss Classic bibs 89 chf !

PLUS we’re offering free shipping to anyone ordering 200 Swiss Francs or more of anything. So, buy the jersey, bib and a t-shirt and it’ll ship to you for FREE…whether or not you live in Switzerland, Italy, the United States or Australia !

We’re not going to get rich, we’re going to get the word out about biking in Switzerland !

Be an ambassador ! Click here to pre-order.

New Bike Switzerland Blog

We wanted to communicate with everyone more often than through monthly newsletters, so we created a “blog” on our site which we try to update a few times a week. The blog page also gives easy access to all of our other Bike Switzerland family sites and pages. You can go to the blog by clicking here.

Short sleeves in February….our Canary islands tour.

Some of our crew in Gran Canaria

It all went off superbly…thanks Ray ! However, our riders did keep saying, ” I didn’t know it was going to be this hard.” No, it’s not a tour as much as it is a Spring Training Camp and that’s how we we’ll market our 2011 trips. It’s warm, beautiful and Spain…but rides are tough and it’s a wake-up call to legs that haven’t been on the road since late October. Fortunately, this is exactly what the doctor ordered for our crew: they loved it and most of them are planning on coming back for our 2011 tour !

We’re planning to announce a late January or early February tour for 201, and are open to your suggestions, so send them in. A few of our riders mentioned that a November Canary Islands camp would be good since the legs would have had an entire season to train for those climbs. Again, let us know what you think.

See all pictures of the Canary Islands Tour here.

New Items…

We’ve just ordered a new set of Garmin Legend HCX GPS for our summer tours.  

Our BIONX electric bike system will be functioning by June. If you’re renting, you’ll be able to add the BIONX battery to your rental for 25 CHF per day, or if you’re doing one of our rides, you can get the BIONX for a 300 Chf supplement. Again, perfect for couples who want to ride together, but are at different levels.

Our fleet of new Streetfires SSX are coming in tomorrow. Watch our blog for pictures.

Registrations are looking good !

All of our guided tours are healthy and ready and rearing to go. There are still 3 to 6 spaces left on each tour depending on the date, so there is room…but those spaces are definately going to go. Hope you’re on one of them ! Check out dates and prices here.

Bike Shop Switzerland Opens !

The on-line shop is now open for business. Our goal is to promote cycling in Switzerland and brands related to Swiss cycling. All products are available for international shipping at reasonable rates right here. We’re starting out with two objectives.

1) To get the hard to find BMC clothing line into the hands of riders outside Switzerland.

2) American based Hincapie Sports is The BMC Racing Team’s sponsor and clothing provider and this means that Swiss and  European fans do not have easy access to the team’s new pro kit, and we hope to change this.

The shop also offers cycling maps of all 9 Swiss National Routes, and this Spring we will also be introducing our own Bike Switzerland product line. Visit the shop by clicking here.

BMC Team Kit will ship internationally on March 15th

Last call for the Winter Cycling Paradise !

Wow…I just got off a great weekend in Gran Canaria with Ray and the BMC marketing staff. We were all extremly impressed with the well-maintained roads, the suprisingly green landscape, the hotels, bikes…man, it was all good. And it all required SPF 15 or higher (75 degrees that weekend !). And listen, we’ve tweaked the tour a bit and managed to lower the price 100 Euros (which we’ll reimburse to those who have signed on already).

Above the clouds on Gran Canaria

But get on board quick. You need to be on the island by February 20th and we’ll finish the tour on teh 28th. Just look for airport “LPA” on your favorite ticket search engine and get ready for some hard, warm riding and tall “après-bike” beers on the beach. More information at this link. And you can find pictures of my weekend at this link.

Electric Bike rentals at Bike Switzerland Rentals

The Bionx system is hardly noticeable on a regular bicycle.

We’d like to offer cycling to more ages and abilities by offering an electric assist option to our fleet of BMC Alpen Challenge bicycles . Nothing is perfect, but the new Canadian manufactured “Bionx” system is as close as it gets. We simply swap out your rear wheel, attach the light weight battery pack to either the frame our rack and you’re off ! The battery is rechargeable and good for around 80 km with an adjustable assist level which goes from 25% to 300 %. I think it will be ideal for couples who want to travel further with their children, spouses who would otherwise be at different levels, or for less experienced riders who are looking to do a rider that they could never consider otherwise. We’ll make an announcement when our rentals website has integrated the option. In the meantime, take a look at the Bionx website here.

New video of our “Lite Tour”

We put together video of our new “Lite Tour” . Our van driver and chef, David Cotting, is a band member of Tiger the Lion and we’ve set the video to their music. When we first did the video, we had a lot of text flashing across the screen to explain what you were seeing, but I thought it was too distracting and so removed it all. Just know that all the pictures are in the order that they appear on our itinerary. Come with us this summer and you’ll see it all on the trip…even more. I promise !