About
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
> participation guidelines
> awareness
Self-Organisation
> how it’s prepared
> consensus
> circles
Online Tools
> online-tools
> photo-sharing
On the road
> on the road
> tasks & rota
> trailers
> wildcamping
Food
Whenever it’s possible we go dumpster-diving and buy food from local farmers and small shops.
> veganism
> rocket stove
> dumpster-diving
Activities
> skill-sharing
Latest blog posts
Ecotopia 2025 First Stop: Hirondelles
We started the Ecotopia Biketour 2025 in Pontareuse, Boudry (Switzerland), on this beautiful farm, “The farm of Pontareuse” by the collective of Hirondelles (meaning swallows, like the birds). The farm is a squatted farm with a goal of providing a chance for communal farming and gardening for villagers, offering a place for people from the nearby asylum seekers centre to come and cook food (in their cozy outside kitchen), as well as offering a place to stay in emergency situations while also being a home and garden of the people from Hirondelles collective. We were welcomed and hosted by super…
Slow Start with the SunRide System!
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,…
Registrations are open!
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!
Announcing the 2025 route!
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 July 5]: Pontareuse near Boudry, Switzerland July 1…