So I thought it would be cool to ride the Swiss Bike Trophy a few days after the Grand Raid... for the most part it was cool. The Swiss Bike Trophy was a 1 hour race, in the evening, on mountain bikes, around the Swiss Capitol building in Bern, on 1.6k of streets and sidewalks, with man made obstacles. Not exactly a normal mountain bike race.
Bern was awesome though, it was definitely the coolest large city I've been to in Europe with a sweet river running through town and people on bicycles everywhere.
The race venue was an awesome scene with lots of spectators, a jumbo screen showing the race, music, food and beer tent. The women's race was fun to watch and then a nasty thunderstorm rolled in for the start of the men's race. The first lap was a literal traffic jam for the second half of the field and riding around in the dark and rain, jumping off slippery wood ramps was only fun for about 3 or 4 laps. That's how long it took until I got lapped so it was all good! It wasn't much of a race for me, but a super cool event!
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