PROGRAM

The festival officially opens its Event and Expo Area. Discover partner brands, cycling gear and projects, meet riders and creators, and explore the space dedicated to bike culture. A relaxed moment to start the day, connect with the community and experience Pedaleo up close.

3 Loops • 3 Days • 3 Cakes
Tackle our three Cakeride loops (two short & easy, one a bit more challenging) whenever you want during the festival! Ride at your own pace and in any order, in groups or on your own. Every completed loop earns you one stamp + one slice of cake. Collect all 3 stamps on your card to enter the draw for cool prizes!
A joint project by CHAOS, PACKS, Physiolab, Isorno & The Cake Movement.

Let’s get together and talk all things bikepacking in Europe. Ask questions, share experiences, tell stories, and exchange tips with fellow travelers. The perfect session to get inspired and feel ready for your next adventure.

Learn the essentials of route planning with Ride with GPS: creating routes, checking elevation and surfaces, adding cues and points of interest, and preparing files for navigation before your next ride.

Liz and Oumou

Oumou is the founder of Sport Is For Everyone. Liz is a bike traveler and climate justice activist who rode to COP29 in Baku. Together they host an interactive workshop exploring privilege, access and collective responsibility within and beyond the cycling community.

Carlotta Schuhmacher

Carlotta is a young ultra cyclist who rode to the start of Paris-Brest-Paris, the Transcontinental Race and the Mountain Races — and figured things out as she went. Her way of riding: not overprepared, just optimistic and determined.

Robin Gemperle

Robin Gemperle is one of the most accomplished ultra-cyclists of his generation. Fresh from the Transcontinental Race finish in Greece, he’ll take us on a camera-roll journey through 4,000 km and 10 days of racing across Europe, told just days, after crossing the finish line.

Adrien Liechti

Adrien Liechti is a Swiss nomad, bikepacker and adventurer. In 2026, he set a world record cycling 17,500 km across Africa in 96 days, through remote deserts, challenging border crossings and 15 days in jail. The untold story behind the record.

Let’s get together and talk all things bikepacking in Africa. Ask questions, share experiences, tell stories, and exchange tips with fellow travelers. The perfect session to get inspired and feel ready for your next adventure across this stunning continent.

Race against one person at a time on the cutest bikes and advance in the next round.

A high-energy live set blending electronic beats, live instrumentation and improvisation. Expect danceable grooves, unexpected textures and a festival atmosphere that moves from hypnotic rhythms to explosive peaks.

Join Knog for a fun evening ride! Everyone will receive a Knog bike light for the ride as we head out on a relaxed 25 km route with mostly flat terrain. A great chance to ride together, test some lights, and enjoy the evening on two wheels.

Mountains and Trees is an ultra-cycling documentary by Albion and Pertex exploring the world of the Silk Road Mountain Race and its founder, Nelson Trees. Through the stories of riders, it reveals the challenges, motivations and transformative experiences of unsupported racing.

We love to ride, and we love to dance. Join us for a night of great beats, good vibes, and festival energy. Time to give those cycling legs a different kind of workout!

Start the day with a gentle yoga session to wake up body and mind. Stretch, breathe and ease into the festival atmosphere before a day of rides, stories and shared adventures.

Discover partner brands, cycling gear and projects, meet riders and creators, and explore the space dedicated to bike culture. A relaxed moment to start the day, connect with the community and experience Pedaleo up close.

Tire expertise straight from the source: Join Ruedi (Cycling My Way) and Schwalbe Product Manager Oscar for a 60-minute Q&A covering tire choice, tire width, optimal tire pressure, the benefits of tubeless, and much more.

Stories, lessons and unexpected moments from women who travel alone. An open conversation about freedom, confidence, challenges and what happens when you choose your own direction.

Matteo Rizzi

Matteo left a career as an engineer to chase what makes him feel alive. Four countries, two Caminos, three thousand kilometres from home to the Atlantic. The story of the longest road — the one that brings you back to yourself.

A relaxed 25 km social ride with Belén Castelló. Flat roads, easy pace and good company. A chance to spin the legs, meet fellow riders and enjoy the landscape together.

Ilaria Fiorillo

Ilaria Fiorillo is a content creator and advocate for sustainable mobility from Italy. She’ll share how riding to work every day became the unexpected preparation for one of the most iconic ultra-distance challenges: the North Cape 4000.

How do you eat well on the road? From camp kitchens to supermarket improvisation, this session explores practical tips, favourite recipes and the realities of cooking while travelling by bike.

Join Sofiane Sehili for a 50 km social ride with 1,300 metres of climbing. A chance to ride together, share stories from the road and experience the mountains at a friendly pace.

Maximilian Schnell

Max has spent 10 years living in a tent, alternating slow travel and ultra cycling projects after a gap year that never ended. The story of how a random encounter with bikepacking turned into a philosophy of life, a lifestyle and a job.

From the Andes to Patagonia, from remote villages to busy cities. Let’s get together and share experiences, challenges and unforgettable encounters from bicycle journeys across South and Central America.

Come on stage and share your funniest, most adventurous, or most cringe-worthy story from one of your bikepacking trips in Africa. Maximum 5 minutes per person. Feel free to send us an image in advance to accompany and support your story.

Sofiane Sehili

Sofiane Sehili set out to break a world record: 18,000 km from Lisbon to the Chinese-Russian border, averaging more than 300 km a day. What should have been the adventure of a lifetime ended in a Russian prison for almost two months. The full story.

Pascal & Patrick

In 1990, Pascal Birrer and Patrick Grimm left Switzerland with paper maps and cycled around the world for three years, long before GPS or smartphones existed. The story of an adventure that happened before the digital age took over.

Leoni Kohlberg

Leo the Cyclonaut has spent four years living with a tent and a bicycle, crossing Europe, Asia and South America. She reflects on what the road teaches us about resilience, independence and the simple idea that happiness might not require very much at all.

Everyone who would like to take part in the Track Stand Challenge, please bring your bike and normal shoes, and gather in front of the main stage. Don’t be afraid, the only losers are those who don’t try! 😉

Acoustic guitars, ukulele, polyphonic voices and world music influences come together in Tournesol’s unique sound. Blending French chanson and melodic pop, the Swiss duo creates a warm and uplifting musical journey inspired by nature, connection and adventure.

Join Knog for a fun evening ride! Everyone will receive a Knog bike light for the ride as we head out on a relaxed 25 km route with mostly flat terrain. A great chance to ride together, test some lights, and enjoy the evening on two wheels.

Two friends cycle 1,500 km along Ukraine’s frontline, meeting people whose stories reveal the human cost of war. A powerful documentary by Ihor Volochii, screened at festivals worldwide.

Get ready for a special evening with Frank, radio host at Radio Deejay, creator of Deejay On The Road, storyteller, traveller and passionate cyclist. He’ll share stories from his adventures on and off the bike, always with music as the soundtrack, before taking over the decks for a special DJ set.

Start the day with a gentle yoga session to wake up body and mind. Stretch, breathe and ease into the festival atmosphere before a day of rides, stories and shared adventures.

Simon Hiltli

Simon is a climber, skier and adventurer who set off on a ski trip across 8 countries, and ended up pedalling 7,216 km, getting hit by a car twice, recovering from a neck trauma at minus 26 degrees. The funny, absurd and surprisingly moving story of what happens when a plan falls apart completely.

Weronika and Tomek

Weronika and Tomek are bike travelers and storytellers of wild places. Last summer they crossed Mongolia, China and Central Asia by bike. At Pedaleo they share their reflections from one of the world’s most remote cycling journeys.

Let’s get together and talk all things bikepacking in Asia. Ask questions, share experiences, tell stories, and exchange tips with fellow travelers. The perfect session to get inspired and feel ready for your next adventure across this stunning continent.

Join Quinda Verheul for a relaxed social ride, where good company, shared roads and the joy of cycling come together. Ride at an easy pace, meet fellow cyclists and enjoy the journey together. Open to all levels.

Felix Kaufmann

Felix is a yoga teacher, cyclist and adventurer who set off east by bicycle to make yoga a bigger part of his life. After 40 months on the road, volunteering and sleeping under the stars, he shares stories about freedom, spirituality and life on two wheels.

For those who are not cyclling home, join us for a last ride of the weekend, 25km, flat.