Video: Remy Metailler Rides a Lesser-Known but Fun Looking Bike Park in Switzerland

 Great trails definitely, but you really need to check the timetable for the lower gondola. It only goes like twice an hour. So when you don’t check like I did, you could be waiting for almost an hour to go up again.

 Well half an hour that is, but it seemed like an hour…

 @ratm54: American point of view on French point of view of swiss bike park: what do you mean ADVANCE the costs?!"

Lol, when you pay your own way all the time, you get used to it and go wherever you want to ride bikes. It sucks to pay for your own healthcare and to be honest I've never realized it was a benefit to travel the world freely knowing we have to pay for our own healthcare either way. I wouldn't want to leave my free healthcare zone either if I had one, but I don't so this park looks SICK! Might need to visit my uncle in zurich

 @brass-munky: I think he means you'll have to go trough some paper work but will be refunded. In EEC countries ussualy you don't need to

 @miguelcurto: Exactly. I have had a severe injury on french bikepark last years. The first four days of hospital cost is around 10000$. In France thanks to social security i paid nothing directly. It's the same thing with EEC membres thanks to agreement but not for switzerland.
Probably american is not concerned but europeen who read pinbike are !

 @brass-munky: "I've never realized it was a benefit to travel the world freely knowing we have to pay for our own healthcare either way."
Lol :
road2recovery.com/cause-view/irideforpaul

 @transitter: not true. gondola goes every 20min. also, when it's crowded, it goes back to back

 @bastifunbiker: guess I’m spoiled, but that’s still too long.

 never talk about chur

 Sounds fucking magical. Taking a train to a town with a lift access bike park, and eat cheese afterwards. Europe does it right.

 @withdignityifnotalacrity: until you see the prices

 @bashhard: comment couldn't be more german

How many clicks of rebound do you run? - None, they're to expensive.

 @cro-magnon: *too expensive

 @bashhard: grammar and correcting. quite german too?

 @sack-zement: well observed

 @bashhard: Could be worse, at least you're paying in a stable currency. I was in Switzerland over the last few days, shit was costing more every day. To the point where it was costing more in pounds than the advertised Swiss franc price. Yay Brexit.

 this guy knows what's up.
also there is terrible music playing. there is no bar that blasts "radio hits", there is no photo trap und there are sooooo many trees, bushes and whatnot. the gondola was built in the dark ages and is slow af. It's red, but it isn't fast. horrible.
Also, you might find cows standing on the track...
To go back to the lower gondola you have to ride trhough the streets of chur and maybe you get run over by a Postauto.
Don't do that!

 how true... to add fuel to fire the cable cars are old and breakdown often so you can wait hours without riding (unfortunately that's true!!!) can't wait for the new one...

 @motorstone: new gondola will come soon™
for real.

 Chur is!

 sam pilgrim did, lukas knopf did, several others did

 they ride down a fire road. it's some normal people's stuff

 If you don't want the sport to grow...

 @therealmancub: oh I want the sport to grow. But the volunteers that shape that park don‘t grow on trees and the cablecar is at it‘s limit.
There will be a new one in a few years.
And maybe there will be more kids that shape that park and not only post vlogs and stuff.
Back to that shape together, ride together.

 just keep in gnarly. no chicken ways, death gaps everywhere.

but seriously, it's kinda pointless to complain about people visiting a public bikepark. there are lots of possibilities if you decide to make the best out of it instead.

also, you can relax, no mass tourism will happen in Chur because:
- Switzerland is expensive af. There are nice bikeparks in Austria, France and Italy that are way cheaper like Morzine
- In the region there is lots and lots of riding that is nice too.
- And, as mentioned earlier, Chur is not for everyone, as long as it stays gnarly, the traffic will be limited.

 Don’t worry, I can’t imagine it getting overrun anytime soon. If a pro rider is finding it tough, regulars are not going to have fun. I imagine most people will instead head up the valley to Lenzerheide or so and ride there.

 You want some tissues?

 I rode there in 2010 or even earlier, when there were barly any bike parks in Switzerland at the time. Lenzerheide Gondolas would not even carry bikes then

By the time it definitely was not a secret spot. It's always been well known in Switzerland but also always known for it's difficult trails.

The masses will anyways go to Lenzerheide and the "Tsürii" park rats might try it once, find it too tough and never come again.

 hello friend.

 I thought the Scott Velosolutions DH team mentioned Chur quite often, didn't they?

 he tried before

 @bashhard: and rampage too...guess hes just a doomer now.

 True I tried before. Also 15 years ago I tried to do a bike videos but that did not work out. Look now, I made it work. A lot of it depends how badly you want to make it work, and I did not enjoy racing, so I did not pursue it.

 @remymetailler: Thanx for the reply!! Yeah I gave up racing when it became not fun anymore.. How does Hard Line compare, looks like its more of a jam vibe?