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Western Switzerland’s largest bike park opens in Porrentruy

From Le Temps · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • The Jura Bike Park opened on Saturday near Porrentruy in Switzerland’s Jura canton.
  • The 1.3 million-franc facility covers 11,000 square metres and is the largest bike park in French-speaking Switzerland.
  • It includes pump tracks, jump lines, flow trails and skill trails for bicycles and scooters.

A 11,000-square-metre bike park has opened on the heights of Porrentruy, transforming the peaceful Banné hill between Porrentruy and the village of Fontenais.

The Jura Bike Park cost 1.3 million Swiss francs and is free to use. Excavators and other heavy machinery reshaped the site in recent months, creating trails, bumps and jumps designed to develop riders’ agility.

The park features pump tracks, jump lines, flow trails and skill trails. The terms may be English, but the facilities are intended for practical use, whether visitors want to ride bicycles, use scooters or practise jumping.

The new park is the largest in French-speaking Switzerland and the second-largest in Switzerland overall. It remains well behind the facility in Oberried, in Bern canton, which covers 30,000 square metres.

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Originally published by Le Temps in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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