DRAFT — awaiting Kevin's confirm-notes below before publish. Part of the Home Turf area.

Switzerland · Canton Bern

"Fantastic ride around lake biel. Never fails to impress. Beautiful scenery" — Kevin's own words, 8 April 2017.

A loop around Lake Biel itself, ridden enough times that this specific one earned a five-star write-up in the ride log. Steeper in short pitches than the flat lake shore suggests — the route climbs away from the water more than once.

Route data (from Strava): 61.7km, 485m of climbing, max grade 49.3% — that grade figure is a short, sharp pitch, not the character of the whole ride.

The route, from Kevin's own GPS track

Real GPS route map showing the ride from Bargen to Lake Biel
The actual recorded route, plotted from Kevin's own Strava GPX/FIT data onto a real OpenStreetMap base — not a screenshot, not a live embed, a static image built from the real GPS track.

What it actually looks like

A pier on Lake Biel with waves, Switzerland
Lake Biel from one of the lakeside piers.
Kevin at a restaurant table with a pizza and drink after a ride
The reward at the end — pizza after the loop.

📝 Kevin — needs your input

  • Confirm this is the same loop as "Quick Spin & Lake Biel" and the other repeat Lake Biel rides, or a different route each time?
  • Restaurant name for the pizza stop?

Source: Kevin's Strava export (8 Apr 2017), real GPS track, plus 2 real photos from the Google Photos archive.