Grab your bikes and your instruments! This year the route will start with not just one but two biketours! Ecotopia will join forces with SunRide System, a band of musicians and street artists. With their sound systems on cargobikes they’re touring and bringing along music everywhere they go. They do concerts in various different localities and communities, as well as paid gigs to fund their journey. We’ll take it slow and have time to do music on the streets of villages and towns or on the beautiful landscapes on our way. We hope for a joyful time full of singing,…

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The registration form for the 2025 bike tour is now open! Register to help us estimate the number of participants, let us know of any needs beforehand, and be added to the signal group chat. You’re also invited to participate in bike sharing and traveling together to the tour. We made some changes to the dates and route, you can find the most up to date route on our route page. We will visit some exciting projects this year and are looking forward to sharing them with you soon!

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We’re excited to announce the 2025 route! This year, we will start in Switzerland, spend most of the time in France, and end in Belgium. As always, you can join the tour for any part but we recommend joining for at least one or two weeks. We are in contact with some exciting projects! They’re marked on the map below to give an indication where we will be, but we will wait with announcing them until we have confirmed that all the dates work with the projects. the route and dates [updated June 10]: Boudry, Switzerland July 1-3 Preparation days…

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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…

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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…

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26.08 Riga, Fukusima Struggling with finding my way to Fukusima, but getting a reply quickly when I ask for help. Being welcomed by the only person I know there. Eating my lunch together with the food which is immediately offered to me, some couscous and pickled vegetables and mushrooms, while the question “Is it better to have diarrhea or to vomit while biking?” is discussed. People apologize for the imagery, and I say that I don’t mind and sharing related stories of my own. Eating pancakes with banana and peanut butter and chocolate paste. Repairing the roof of an overwater…

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