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
Core Values & Practices
> core values and practices
> 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
Announcing the Ecotopia Childish Weeks
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…
Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns
Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns After our summer break, our Antiracism Reading Circle has started again! We meet every Sunday at 19:00 Central European Time (till 21:00) on Signal, and everyone who feels connected to Ecotopia – past, present, or future – is warmly invited to join. Whether you’ve been on the Biketour before, plan to come, or are just curious about the community and the work of unlearning racism, you are welcome. We’ve reflected on how we want to continue, and decided on this Every other week we continue reading Me and White Supremacy by…
Holding Ourselves Accountable
For the last two years, 2023 and 2024, something regretful happened that we would like to share, take responsibility for, publicly apologize for, and discuss how we want to work towards building an EBT (Ecotopia Biketour) community where these kinds of situations won’t happen again. The 2024 crisis started when the EBT had planned to visit a project, and only a few days in advance (because our own fault) realized the project would require all participants to register with their legal name and join their association. As some people on tour pointed out at the time, this would make this…
La Prochaine Aire
La prochaine aire, a word game for being the next rest stop/next era is a project that based in an abandoned canal house that was used for navigation. The town of Joigny used to be a place for the military industry and in the 90’s when that industry left, 10% of the population left leaving the town with many social issues, poverty and empty buildings. In a region mainly holds a right wing conservative population the left activists were looking for a safe space to gather in the outskirt of town and were passing by that abandoned house and realized…