Dead Ends & Cake – a CdC partner event – lures riders up the most beautiful dead-end roads in eastern Switzerland with the promise of good times and baked goods.

It’s a change of scene and a change of pace for Anatole Naïmi, who came straight off the back of the Atlas and the Hellenic Mountain Races. “I didn’t really have a performance objective,” he says. “I wanted to discover Switzerland in a different way – through a short and fun format. And to share it with a friend, because the cake wouldn’t have tasted the same without him!”

No rush and no plans, except to time it right for a certain traffic light, where getting it wrong would have meant a two-hour wait. “Otherwise, we planned to enjoy every checkpoint, and it was totally worth it,” Anatole says.

One checkpoint was in an upland pasture; another at an Alpine hut up a gravel road; still another near a quintessentially Swiss mountain lake. But they all shared one thing: cake.

With beautiful roads and gravel, hike-a-bike and breathtaking mountain views, Dead Ends & Cake has it all.