Ride the Alps specializes in guided mountain bike holidays in the French and Swiss Alps

Bespoke guided routes

All of our trips can be customized to suit your needs.

Experience counts

Jamie, our guide, has more than 20 years of professional guiding experience

Winter alpine biking

With our new fleet of fat bikes we are now running winter biking holidays

Our news from the mountains at the start of 2023
Mary, Wednesday January 11

Ideas for bike adventures in 2023
Mary, Monday December 12

Whether you're a beginner or a confirmed fat bike enthusiast, we have winter routes for everyone.
Mary, Tuesday November 22

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We couldn’t be more impressed with our tour! After turning 50, I decided to check a bucket-list trip off my list, and looked to do a Trans-Alp tour. After researching and corresponding with a few tour…
Stefan Friedemann, September 2022

Jamie and Mary are a fantastic team! From start to finish you are in the safest hands. Mary is fantastic at all things organisation before and during the trip and you feel her rock solid…
Simon Wisdom, July 2022

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Our boarding with kids and ripping too off igloo i

Our boarding with kids and ripping too off igloo in back garden when ride all way home 👍😉😀

Amazing Fatbike conditions at the moment / hard pa

Amazing Fatbike conditions at the moment / hard packed snow to ride on and blue skies above 👍🤣 out with Mary earlier this week to check out conditions at Bonnavaz! #fatbikefun #ridethealps

The world ice swimming champs finished yesterday a

The world ice swimming champs finished yesterday and locals swimmers did fantastic ! I was employed to take the UK journalist that covered the event for a snow shoe to see local area !! They certain got good conditions 👍😉😀 Mary helped out too! Glad we got some snow in valley again! #fatbikecomute !

Snow on valley floor today - so out on the fatties

Snow on valley floor today - so out on the fatties to see the Ice swimming world championships pool in samoens - found we be film by a drone as we road past!🤣😉 snow again at last ! #fatbikefun #ridethealps

Fatbike season started 👍 some deep snow up on w

Fatbike season started 👍 some deep snow up on wind blow lee side of high ground ! Hard to ride thou for sure! Met a French Fatbike from Cluses on a cool Curve bike with snowshoe attachments on his forks ! Serious stuff!! A hard push up to bourgeois but amazing view reward😀 - then after lunch a mini Agy adventure on less snow but more rideable 😉 fun to be out in such a nice day !

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Jump session with cammie n mates to smash the hall

Jump session with cammie n mates to smash the halloween 🎃🎃! 🤣😉👍

No holiday is complete without a big family bike r

No holiday is complete without a big family bike ride !👍 Thé Torrent-trail bike from Luekerbad is perfect family ride ! Over 2021m of descent in 30km makes the angle very gentle and never too steep. Lots of underlation means short little climbs adds up to make over 350m of ascent . But uplift on lift and bus from valley floor do the main ascent . The trails in such good condition too ! Pine needles and dry too. One well places restaurant at half way was still open . Kids road really well - even thou Cammies bike look way too small for him now!

Some autumn adventures off the bike today with kid

Some autumn adventures off the bike today with kids at Wildstrubel hotel / we use on Eiger tour - not been here in years! Great that kids are big n bold enough to do the via Ferrata with me !! @juju_kirkbridecarr

Selywn bikes are exhibiting this bike and a road/g

Selywn bikes are exhibiting this bike and a road/gravel bike at Bespoked cycle show in London this weekend ! 👍😉 It’s paint job is amazing- on the road bike it glitters and sparkles and fads ! Custom bike build and custom paint job too!! If your in London area - worth a visit if you have time 👍😉 #selywnbikes

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Out of office fun for Mary 😉😃 as show her wa

Out of office fun for Mary 😉😃 as show her wants new in Unterbach - and we both discover new trails above Eischoll. Next day a huge climb over a 2556m pass and cool 1900m descent on single track and tracks into Brig . Then today firm favorites on Moosalp and cammies secret trail plus trying out new enduro tracks ! Great few days out together 👍😀 Sad News thou - Peter at La Reserve in St Niklaus has sold the business and after 18years of taking our clients to him on Chamonix to Zermatt . He’s retiring from the business as working the round bar for 38years ! Hope he had more time for family now 😃 Good news is the new owner has employed a previous employee of peter’s - Yanica that’s great at the job- so she’ll be welcoming our groups from next summer . Rumour the new owners may well strip out the old bar and possible the “man from uncle “ 70’s chairs too !! 😳 I just hope they keep the football table !! 😉🤣#outofoffice #inameeting #ridealps #neverstopexploring #winteriscoming

Last couple of days of riding have been stupendous

Last couple of days of riding have been stupendously good !! 😃 weather held off and conditions perfect after some light rain . Mega descent from Mossalp to get to St Niklaus and yesterday sneaking extra descent to Zmutt as well as the now standard helicopter 🚁 ride and huge fast descent to Tasch . Finish with blast back to st Niklaus and legendary table football in the bar 😃👍 awersome - very happy people all round ! And that’s end of season for me ! Fantastic trips this summer 🤣🤣👍

Atmospheric start to the day - or could say wet !

Atmospheric start to the day - or could say wet ! But pushed on / carried on!😳 and rewarded with a dry run down The 58 on other side 😃👍😉 dry trails ! Then rain again on the usually hot climb up at end of day . So that’s good 😊. Amazing new bridge and first group to ride over it before we saw the sign say not the ride on it 🤣🤣👍 . Also put sunna to good use at hotel for first time ever too! No photos of that 😉!!