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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
News from the Bike Dinos
hey you! it’s us, the ecologists on bikes! we have just cycled all the way from welten to ljubljana. i hear you asking: «how was it?» — well, let me give you four words: rain, ticks, legpain, porridge. in reality of course, there was more to our 6 days of cycling together than just four words. it all started with an «easy first day» that turned out to be a very hilly, very hot, very full of breaking bikes-day and ended with a very one-colour, one-textured meal. (sidenote: if you ever get the brilliant idea to make instant potato puree…
Ecotopia 2023 sets off!
On June 30th Ecotopia will embark on a two and a half month journey to Bucharest (Romania), starting in Welten (Austria). The past few days have been a preparation period, where we have been gathering to get everything ready for the tour. Tomorrow we’ll be joined by some people from around the area to create a Critical Mass, going from Welten to the lake Ledavsko Jezero in Slovenia! And also here are some updates! The project in Welten has been hosting an event in June that left behind this muddy pond from a pond-digging action. When we arrived some of…
ECOTOPIA BIKETOUR 2023 — Route — Equipment — Call for Support
*** feel free to share this post in your circles, platforms and communities! *** hellooo everyone! this is the *official* announcement of the ecotopia biketour 2023! the main region this year will be in romania. more route infos below. the orga has shrunk a lot since the winter meeting and we need your help with some stuff! first of all, REGISTRATION on our website is OPEN! you don’t have to register. but if you do it helps us to know how many people we will be at what time. you can also give us some useful information there such as…
We have route!
In 2023 we are travelling from Welten to Bucharest! We will be visiting the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Ljubliana (Slovenia) and then head towards Romania, passing through Croatia and Serbia. Along the route we will be visiting several hosting projects, ending the tour in Bucharest. In the first 4 weeks of the tour, we will be inviting all QINTAW people (queer, inter, non-binary, trans, agender and women) and ask endo-cis-hetero men to join from Novi Sad onwards. We are super excited to bike in Eastern Europe. And we are still keeping our eyes open for projects, so if you…