Zurich, May 22 - 25, 2025

the national bicycle festival

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR: MAY 22-25, 2025

At the national CYCLE WEEK from May 22 to 25, 2025, cycling fans and professionals, the industry and tourism will come together for the country's biggest cycling festival. CYCLE WEEK presents new trends at Switzerland's largest bike expo, offers plenty of opportunities to test bikes of all kinds and invites you to 150 workshops, international contests and shows. New this year: a bikepacking event and the Europaallee Velofest!

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28.05.2024
CYCLE WEEK 2024 was a blast!
Many thanks to all the visitors, cycling fans, athletes, exhibitors, partners and employees who supported us and celebrated cycling with us!
Breaking meets BMX Flatland

"Surfing hormone waves" - workshop
Female athletes and their hormonal cycle - this is where hidden opportunities come to light. A workshop on hormones and cycle-controlled training with neuromental trainer Anke Brunner
Workshops Women Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
Proper nutrition when biking - workshop with MY Sport
Performance and nutrition are directly related! In this workshop you will learn how to assess your energy balance
and nutritional strategies to optimize your performance.
Workshops Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
Flexible thinking - new solutions for transporting bikes by train
What should a train compartment look like in the future? In this pilot project, one will be presented and you can actively contribute your ideas and wishes for bike transportation.
City & Mobility Travel & Tourism Workshops
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Europaallee Velofest
Place: Festival - Europaallee
ZüriDirt Contest
This weekend, some of the world's best slopestylers will be taking off at the ZüriTrails Jumppark near Brunau.
Dirt & BMX Contests
Place: Jump Park - Sihlcity
Custom frame building workshop
Zurich frame builders give an insight into the magic of frame building, discuss facts and myths and show how the process from customer contact to the ready-to-ride custom-made bike works.
City & Mobility Workshops Service & Equipment
Place: Festival - Europaallee
MTB Slopestyle Workshop
Workshop for advanced bikers who want to learn the art of slopestyle.
Dirt & BMX Driving technique courses
Place: Campus - Brunau Jump Park - Sihlcity
Driving technique courses
In our technique courses, you can expand your skills or try out a new type of bike. We have the right technique training for every level and every preference - from basics such as cornering technique on a road bike to advanced maneuvers on an MTB or slopestyle.
MTB Gravel & Road City & Mobility Workshops Driving technique courses
Film premiere of "Gravel Express"
380 kilometers & 9,500 vertical meters or from St. Moritz to Zermatt within 24 hours. Is that feasible? Film premiere with protagonist Nathalie Schneitter
Gravel & Road Shows
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Unicycle show
The Scacciapensieri duo offer breakneck action on the unicycle with their unique unicycle act.
Kids & Family Shows
Place: Festival - Europaallee
BMX FLATLAND
World-class BMX Flatland Contest - artists on two wheels!
Dirt & BMX Contests
Place: Festival - Europaallee
BMX workshop with Biroma
Try tricks in the skatepark, in the bowl and on the pump track and learn from the BMX coach.
Dirt & BMX Kids & Family Workshops Driving technique courses
Place: Jump Park - Sihlcity
Optimize your training and make a plan - workshop with MY sport
How do I train efficiently? What do I need to bear in mind when training so that I can increase the intensity and achieve my goals?
Workshops Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
Social Rides by Specialized
SPECIALIZED and Cycle Week invite you to conquer the roads around Zurich on our social rides and celebrate your passion for road cycling together.
Gravel & Road Rides Women
Place: Festival - Europaallee
"Bike dr Bock" challenge
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Gravel Workshop with Swiss Cycling
You want to try out "graveling" or you have already gained some experience and now you want to know what you have to pay attention to? Then register for this workshop of the Swiss Cycling Guides.
Gravel & Road Driving technique courses
Place: Campus - Brunau
Mastercard Climb for Trees Challenge
Climb hills and mountains and let trees grow with your altitude meters.
Gravel & Road City & Mobility Public Challenges
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Workshop: Neuromental training during the injury break and rehabilitation phase
In this workshop with neuromental trainer Anke Brunner, you will learn how to consciously train your mindset and thus consciously support your regeneration.
Workshops Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
MTB Test Ride: Light E-Bike and Norco High Pivot
Test and compare the new High Pivot bikes from Norco and the Light E-Bikes from Norco and Pivot on these rides.
MTB Rides
Place: Campus - Brunau
Service workshops with Trailworks: rear suspension service & tubeless system
Get to know your Santa Cruz Virtual Pivot Point (VPP) rear triangle better. A small service is worthwhile at least once a year and is not rocket science. We'll also show you that tubeless is easy: thanks to the Reserve Tubeless technology, there's no compressor, no mess and no hassle.
Workshops Service & Equipment
Place: Campus - Brunau
Workshops on bikepacking, travel & equipment
Travel & Tourism Workshops
Urban Bike Tour
Urban bike tour through Zurich with Rayrider. Experience special places of the metropolis in a familiar atmosphere.
City & Mobility Rides
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Optimize your training - physically and mentally!
From training control to regeneration, from mental training to nutrition, these workshops will give you the know-how you need
Workshops
Watch out women - you are the center of attention here!
Whether cycle-oriented training, mental blockages, PMS, shared rides or technique training: these workshops focus on women.
Rides Workshops Women
Let's go for a Ride
Whether it's an MTB tour with the local ZüriTrails club, a racing bike or gravel ride, or exploring the trails on an e-MTB with Rene Wildhaber: the social rides promise lots of fun!
Rides
Gabriel Wibmer Shows & Unboxing
Gravel & Road Service & Equipment Shows
Fine the best trails - Tour planning workshop
The Gehrig Twins use Komoot to help you find the best bike tours and how to navigate safely off-road so that you can venture onto new trails
MTB Travel & Tourism Workshops
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Ride outs with Endura
Gravel Community Ride with the Wädlibrenner Team or MTB Ride Out with Bigi
MTB Gravel & Road Rides
Place: Campus - Brunau
Together on the bike
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Cycle-oriented training - workshop for women
Do you want to improve your well-being, optimize your performance or your regeneration? Then this workshop on cycle-oriented training by Melanie Pauli from the Swiss Football Association is the right place for you.
Workshops Women
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Clever through Züri by bike - workshop
For the city of Zurich, Pro Velo shows you in this workshop how to get around quickly and, above all, safely by bike in city traffic.
City & Mobility Workshops
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Bikepacking workshop: preparation, planning, experiences with the Gehrig Twins
The Gehrig Twins will give you an insight into their adventures on two wheels and show you how to tackle your own small or big adventures.
Travel & Tourism Workshops Service & Equipment
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Graubünda Quiz
Tgutg or Gigi?
Public Challenges
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Battle BMX Flatland vs. Breaking
On Friday evening, the ultimate battle will take place on Gustav Gull Square: some of the world's best flatlanders will compete against the B-Girls & B-Boys.
Dirt & BMX Shows
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Open Space & Social Ride with Züritrails
What should the trails and MTB infrastructure in Zurich look like? The Züritrails association is organizing a workshop for Zurich bikers, preceded by a joint social ride.
MTB Rides Workshops
Place: Campus - Brunau
Free repair of Ortlieb bags and backpacks
ORTLIEB offers free repair services for all bags and backpacks during Cycle Week.Visit us at the ORTLIEB booth (G30) at Gustav-Gull-Platz on Europaallee and bring your ORTLIEB favorites.
Travel & Tourism Service & Equipment
Safety Parcours
Saddle up for city traffic? Test your bike skills on the safety course.
City & Mobility Kids & Family Public Challenges
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Artistic bike show
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Cargobike Challenge
Expand your capacity! Who masters the course and, with a bit of luck, wins a Cargobike?
City & Mobility Public Challenges
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Workshops bookable now
Our 150 or so workshops, rides and riding technique courses are online! Take a look at the wide range on offer and book the workshop that suits you.
Overcoming mental blocks on the bike - workshop
"I could, but there's something stopping me from trying. I hope the group isn't too fast. I can't do anything in my legs today." Do you know such thoughts? Then this workshop with sports psychologist Sonja Nüssli is the right place for you.
Workshops Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
Less pain and more performance through ergonomics on the bike - workshop with SQlab.
Numb fingers or toes? Sit bone or back pain? In this SQlab workshop, you will learn about the causes of such pain and possible solutions.
Workshops Service & Equipment
Place: Festival - Europaallee Campus - Brunau
Adventure mountain bike
Grand tours, fascinating bike regions, exciting races, thrilling events, extraordinary reports, interviews and riding technique tips. All this is available in the new issue of our partner ABENTEUER MOUNTAINBIKE. Free of charge and interactive
Veloforum Switzerland Suisse Svizzera
On May 23, 2024, the first Veloforum will take place at the Kongresshaus Zurich. The all-day forum will serve as a prelude to a promising future for the bicycle system in Switzerland.
Find your flow! Workshop with sports psychologist Sonja Nüssli
Get out of your comfort zone and into the flow! What exactly is flow in endurance sports? Does flow make you better, faster, braver? And how do you get into flow?
Workshops Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
Gravel rides with komoot
Meet like-minded people and exchange ideas with them on this gravel ride, which is all about sharing experiences
Gravel ride with komoot for everyone and specifically for women.
Gravel & Road Rides Women
Place: Campus - Brunau
Optimizing training - Workshop
When the body, mind, nutrition and equipment work together - holistic training workshop
Workshops Training & Mental
Place: Campus - Brunau
Tour planning - workshop with Komoot
Whether on a road bike, gravel bike or mountain bike, a nice route is usually a prerequisite for a good time on the bike. But what is the best way to find and create one?
Travel & Tourism Workshops
Place: Campus - Brunau
MTB Basic Technique Workshop with Swiss Cycling
Would you like to try mountain biking for the first time, get helpful tips on riding technique and practise the basics directly off-road?
MTB Driving technique courses
Place: Campus - Brunau
Zurich 2024: Cycling insights
The World Cycling Championships will take place in Zurich in September. In a panel discussion, the organizers and athletes provide deep insights behind the scenes and talk about the challenges of cycling and para-cycling and the race tracks.
Gravel & Road Shows
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Züri Escape - self-supported bikepacking adventure
400 km & 10,000 m elevation gain - The first self-supported bikepacking multi-day event with start and finisher party on Sunday at the CYCLE WEEK Campus!
Gravel & Road Public Challenges
Place: Campus - Brunau
Ready for the Valais? The challenge
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Bike Lovers Contest
Who has the most beautiful bike in the whole country? Master bike builders from all over Europe present their handmade works of art.

The audience is also the jury! Stop by and cast your vote for your favorite bike.
City & Mobility Public Challenges
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Pumptrack Workshop with Swiss Cycling
So you fly through the pump track with a lot of flow and momentum. A workshop with the Swiss Cycling Guides
MTB Driving technique courses
Place: Campus - Brunau
Bike Guide: what's behind it? - Workshop with Swiss Cycling
Have you ever downloaded a GPX tour, but then the tour was different than expected? In this workshop, Swiss Cycling Guides will tell you when and why a guided tour makes sense, what's behind it and how you can best prepare for your tour.
MTB Workshops
Place: Campus - Brunau
Terrane travel: how does it work? - Workshop
In this workshop you will learn how to go on vacation by bike and train cheaply, easily and above all without complications.
Travel & Tourism Workshops
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Bike show with Tom Oehler at Graubünden
Breathtaking MTB trial show with the Guinness world record holder and world champion from Austria and Gabriel Wibmer as special guest.
MTB Shows
Place: Festival - Europaallee
Family Zone
The Family Zone is being created on the closed Lagerstrasse - a dedicated bike playground for the cyclists of the future with a running bike and obstacle course, courses for the whole family and children's bikes to test out.
Kids & Family
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