DRAFT — a hub page linking to 6 individual ride write-ups below, each with its own real GPS route map and stats.

Switzerland · Canton Bern · Home Turf

Not a destination — the base everything else on this site is measured against. More rides logged from here than everywhere else on Gravel Health put together.

Bargen, in Canton Bern, is where these rides actually start and finish — not a place visited once and written up, but the loop done over and over across more than a decade. Roughly 560 rides geo-match to this immediate area alone, more than every other page on this site combined, spanning back to at least 2011 and still going in 2025. Six of those rides are written up properly below, each with its own real GPS track, distance and climbing — the rest of the archive is still to come.

The scale of it (from Strava): ~489 rides cluster tightly around Bargen itself, with a further ~70 spread across nearby villages — Landeron (21) and Lignières (9) now built as their own page, and more still to come. 91+ real photos exist across this area alone in the export.

The six rides built so far

The big one

Chasseral

The high point of the whole area — three lakes visible at once on a clear day.

101.4km · 1,451m climbing
The favourite

Lake Biel

"Never fails to impress" — Kevin's own words, in the ride log itself.

61.7km · 485m climbing
The coffee run

Lake Murten & Erlach

Named for its destination, not its distance — coffee is the point.

63.7km · 342m climbing
The current one

Gravel Ride to Erlach

The most recent ride on the whole site — still going in 2025.

52.7km · 312m climbing
The day trip

Trip Out Around Zug

A proper excursion to a different canton — surprisingly hilly.

55.1km · 1,404m climbing
The earlier base

Le Landeron & Lignières

Where home turf was before Bargen — the same Chasseral climb, ridden from the lake.

2012 · 2,981m climbing

The reward at the end

Kevin at a restaurant table with a pizza and drink after a ride
Post-ride pizza — the actual reason to do the long loop rather than the short one.
Bargen, with Lake Biel, Lake Murten, Erlach, Landeron, Zug and Chasseral all within reach.

📝 Kevin — needs your input

  • Landeron and Lignières are now built (see the card above) — which other specific rides from this area are worth their own page next? A different Lake Biel loop?
  • Restaurant name for the pizza photo?

Source: Kevin's Strava export, ~560 rides geo-matched to this area since 2011. Six rides built in full with real GPS tracks; the rest of the archive is still to come.