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

Participation Guidelines

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.
> participation guidelines
> 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

Announcement: the route for 2026

Ecotopia Biketour April 5, 2026 April 5, 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. 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 some previous years, there is no QINTAW start. Everyone is invited from the beginning. The QINTAW start in previous years was a tool to make the culture…

Childish Weeks: 1–14 August in Southern Sweden

Ecotopia Biketour January 16, 2026 January 16, 2026

So far around 15 parents have gotten in contact with us and expressed interest in joining the Childish Weeks with their 1–3 children each. This is much more interest that we have expected! We are excited to see how this experiment will turn out! When we first announced the Childish Weeks, we did not realize some of the differences in the needs of people with very young children and with older children. In particular, older children are restricted by school holidays, and their dates vary greatly across Europe. We found out that the most overlap is in the first half…

Announcement: Biketour 2026 Region plan and Call for projects

Ecotopia Biketour December 2, 2025 December 2, 2025

We are excited to announce the region of Ecotopia Biketour 2026 …………………… Sápmi and Scandinavia It has been repeatedly wished for in the last years to have the biketour in that part of Europe, so here it is. The rough plan includes swedish- and norwegian-occupied Sápmi as well as so-called Sweden, Norway and Denmark, perhaps Northern Germany too! This year, besides biketouring in Scandinavia, we’d like to visit and connect with Sámi projects and villages. Sápmi, the land of indigenous Sámi people has been colonized by Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia and its predecessors and since been under their dominion. The…

Announcing the Ecotopia Childish Weeks

Ecotopia Biketour November 20, 2025 January 16, 2026

For many years we were wondering what is the reason that people with children are very rarely joining Ecotopia Biketour, while on other biketours this seems to be different. Now some of us have become parents ourselves, and it starts to seem that the biggest reason why there are no children on the Biketour is that there are no children on the Biketour. Biketouring with children requires additional effort, preparation, skills and confidence, and in addition to managing the daily life on the tour itself, it is particularly challenging to get the right equipment to carry both children and luggage…