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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.

Biketour concepts

Participation Guidelines

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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

Appel à projets dans le nord de la france

Ecotopia Biketour 24 lutego, 2025 February 24, 2025

Nous sommes un collectif auto-géré et itinérant et nous sommes à la recherche d’un lieu pour nous accueillir quelques jours lors de notre prochain voyage en vélo. Co voyage commencera dans le Nord de la France (peut-être bien en Bretagne) et se déroulera de fin juin à fin septembre 2025. Cette année, notre voyage s’organise autour de la lutte anti-raciste et décoloniale, c’est pourquoi nous serions particulièrement intéressé·es de rencontrer des personnes concernées ou engagées dans ces luttes. Lorsque nous collaborons avec un lieu/des personnes/un collectif, nous faisons généralement un petit don financier (principalement des dons des participant·es). Cela dépend…

CALL OUT for antiracist and anticolonial projects.

Ecotopia Biketour 15 stycznia, 2025 January 31, 2025

Ecotopia 2025 has slowly started rolling forward…. This year we will be heading to Northern France and surrounding areas! The planning of the route is currently ongoing. Ecotopia is a self-organised biketour riding across different parts of Europe every year creating community and connection on the road, learning together, organizing on consensus basis without hierarchies. We promote DIY culture, ecological lifestyle, queerfeminism, antiracism and intersectional values. The tour lasts 3 months and usually consists of 15-30 cyclists at a time. We visit different activist and social projects, hold workshops and skillshares on the way, fight injustice and support each other…

Ecotopia Winter Meeting is happening!

Ecotopia Biketour 25 grudnia, 2024 March 25, 2025

hello everyone, missed us? —- some people have started to form an orga for ecotopia 2025. wanna be part of it? send a message through our contact form —- next year we’ll go to northern france! and possibly some surrounding regions/countries. —- there will be a winter meeting in vienna on the second weekend of january. please come if you want to do orga work! please only come if you know you have some capacities for orga work! —- Thursday 09. and morning of Friday 10. will be some time for arriving, hanging out, catching up —- 10.-12. will be…

Antiracism Reading Circle: Let’s learn together!

Ecotopia Biketour 19 grudnia, 2024 March 25, 2025

The Ecotopia Bike Tour touches by it’s nature on many aspects of life where people with racial privilege will have a different experience than those without, for example crossing borders, hitchhiking to the bike tour, dumpster diving, camping in places where people may not expect us… We also find that during the bike tour, we often lack understanding of each other’s struggles. While Ecotopia has the values of antiracism and „trying to be open for all” we also find aspects of our own biases back in how we organize. It should also be noted that the bike tour remains mostly…