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
Bure – struggle against the mega-nuclear-waste-dump
Then we enter in the area close to bure, infested with police surveillence and pretty abandoned otherwise. There is almost no cars on the roads, many houses in the few villages are empty or completly falling apart. The perfect place for the gigantic nuclear waste burial project CIGEO (an acronym for Centre Industriel de Stockage Géologique, or Industrial Centre for Geological Disposal). ANDRA (National agency for the management of radioactive waste ) didn’t choose this area because the ground is paticulary suitable to contain the radiating material but rather because it was possible to convince a big part of the…
lentilleres to bure
At approximately at 1:30 in the night the bus spits me out at Dijon Gare. I get my stuff together and spot the abandoned bikes around. There is one that looks quite promising and definitely has been there for a long time with a flat tire and dirt piling up under the wheels. Then I make my way through the sleeping town towards Lentillieres Quartier Libre, the place where Ecotopia has arrived the day before. I see loads of bikes with travel gear parked and some tents pitched in a big house under construction, I am certainly at the good…
News from Ecotopia Bike Tour July 2025
The Tour have been starting for almost a month now with many kilometers and project going on. Since “les Hirondelles” project the tour went by “LA ferme du Joran” and left Switzerland to go to Dijon in “les lentillères” project. ? Here is a poem about a day on the road and a drawing Some news will soon arrives about what comes next :)
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 and the collective want it to provide a chance for communal farming and gardening for villagers, and offer 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…