Ecotopia Biketour

Ecotopia Biketour is a self-organized, international community that has been organizing a yearly bicycle tour in different regions of Europe since 1990. During the tour we visit environmental and social projects and practice forms of activism and sustainable living. We cook communal vegan food, practice consensus decision making, and share skills by doing workshops. One of our core values is to create a non-discriminatory environment. Participants are asked to give a voluntary contribution of 3–5 € per day to cover food costs, but if you cannot afford this you are welcome to join for free! Ecotopia Biketour is for anyone interested in travelling by bike, community life, DIY, an ecological lifestyle, and/or learning by experience. If this sounds good to you, feel welcome to join us!

We try to make the tour as inclusive as possible for any level of fitness or experience with bike touring. We cycle a maximum of 30–70 km per day (depending on the hills), and on average half of the days we stay in a place without cycling. Our experience is that almost everyone can manage this, but there is the possibility to shorten the distances if we discover that it is too much. People cycle in small groups or alone, at whatever speed suits them, and many people like to take it slow and take lots of breaks. A detailed route plan for the day is shared in the morning, arrows are drawn with chalk on the road at every turn, and if you get lost you can always call the Biketour phone. If you have a shitty bike, you will not be the only one, and we enjoy supporting each other if something breaks. We make sure that the last people to leave carry a toolbox, a phone and a first-aid kit in order to assist if anything goes wrong on the road.

Read more about what the Ecotopia Biketour is. If you would like to get an insight into the organisation or just ask a question, contact us.

Ecotopia Biketour 2026

Text "Ecotopia" on top. On top of it a black shooting star. In the middle a pink-blue map of Scandinavia and Sapmi without countryborders. Text "Sàpmi & Scandinavia in left, text "2026" in the right, with pink letters. Underneath a black linoprinted bicycle and at the bottom a black text "Biketour", with b being also the biketour arrow.

Ecotopia Biketour 2026 will happen in Sápmi and Scandinavia.

On 1–14 August around Göteborg, the Childish Weeks will put a special focus on the needs of participating children.

Biketour concepts

Core Values & Practices

Because we all have different visions of life and diverse personalities, Ecotopia Biketour has developed a set of basic values which helps all of us to create similar expectations from this project.
> core values and practices
> awareness

Self-Organisation

As we oppose any leadership or hierachical structures, the Biketour is organised in an open way where everyone can be a part of.
> how it’s prepared
> consensus
> circles

Online Tools

We try to use free and open-source software as much as possible in the preparation process. The same goes for sharing photos and videos in the group.
> online-tools
> photo-sharing

On the road

Everyone should be able to cycle with the Biketour. Therefore we keep distances low and have scouts going ahead who mark the route. Everyone can follow the signs on their own level of speed. Any tasks like scouting, cooking or pulling a trailer are shared.
> on the road
> tasks & rota
> trailers
> wildcamping

Food

All communal food on Biketour is vegan and cooked with wood on our mobile rocket stove.
Whenever it’s possible we go dumpster-diving and buy food from local farmers and small shops.
> veganism
> rocket stove
> dumpster-diving

Activities

We plan and make many activities on the tour: skill-sharing, helping at projects, joining actions and protests, bike-fixing and other events.
> skill-sharing

Latest blog posts

Pretour to Jåhkamåhke/Jokkmokk

Ecotopia Biketour June 25, 2026 June 25, 2026

note: all place names are (first) written in Sámi language* (and then in Swedish) The start and first weeks of the Biketour this year are in Swedish occupied Sápmi. To travel further and learn more about this region, we decided this year to have a pretour where we travel without our bikes and by hitchhiking instead. Sápmi is the land of indigenous Sámi people, and has been colonized by Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia and its predecessors and since been under their dominion. The colonial and racist treatment of Sámi people continues nowadays especially through so-called green transition with land-grabbing and…

Forests, gardens and a forest garden… / Projects 2026

Ecotopia Biketour June 1, 2026 June 23, 2026

June is here and biketour is just around the corner! Here we describe the projects that we will visit on this year’s biketour. Be prepared for colder temperatures (especially while camping and sleeping), almost nightless nights, great people and cool projects; forests, gardens and a forest garden… bike kitchens, cultural centers and camping in the nature. Hope to see you on the tour! Note the update on the route plan: we have one more stop just before Oslo and visiting Lillehammer has been cancelled. Tour will end in Oslo in September. Bygdeå: hosts on a vegetable farm, 13th of June…

Registrations are open

Ecotopia Biketour May 24, 2026 May 25, 2026

The registration form for the 2026 bike tour is live! Please register to help us estimate the number of participants and to let us know of any needs regarding the tour before it starts :) Register here Here are some community tools that you may find useful as ecotopia 2026 participant: Signal group: We organize before and during the tour in part via signal. If you register we can add you to the group for this year, where you also get access to some of the other community tools. Money sharing: Please read the money sharing page and decide if…

Announcement: the route for 2026

Ecotopia Biketour April 5, 2026 May 21, 2026

Introducing the rough route plan and rough dates (=changes possible!) for Ecotopia Biketour 2026. Some notes: Regular cycling is planned to be around 35–55km per day, with an overall average of 37km/day, and a rest day every fourth day. Mind it’s not as easy there as it may look by the sole distance (dominant winds, elevations, surface, weather); besides, there’s usually plenty opportunities to ride more:) During the Childish Weeks we bike around 20km per day and have rest days more often. The start and end date, and region for the Childish Weeks are set and won’t be changed. Unlike…