Ecotopia Biketour

Ecotopia Biketour is a self-organized, international community that has been organizing a yearly bicycle tour in different regions of Europe since 1990. During the tour we visit environmental and social projects and practice forms of activism and sustainable living. We cook communal vegan food, practice consensus decision making, and share skills by doing workshops. One of our core values is to create a non-discriminatory environment. Participants are asked to give a voluntary contribution of 3–5 € per day to cover food costs, but if you cannot afford this you are welcome to join for free! Ecotopia Biketour is for anyone interested in travelling by bike, community life, DIY, an ecological lifestyle, and/or learning by experience. If this sounds good to you, feel welcome to join us!

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.

Ecotopia Biketour 2026

Text "Ecotopia" on top. On top of it a black shooting star. In the middle a pink-blue map of Scandinavia and Sapmi without countryborders. Text "Sàpmi & Scandinavia in left, text "2026" in the right, with pink letters. Underneath a black linoprinted bicycle and at the bottom a black text "Biketour", with b being also the biketour arrow.

Ecotopia Biketour 2026 will happen in Sápmi and Scandinavia.

On 1–14 August around Göteborg, the Childish Weeks will put a special focus on the needs of participating children.

Biketour concepts

Core Values & Practices

Because we all have different visions of life and diverse personalities, Ecotopia Biketour has developed a set of basic values which helps all of us to create similar expectations from this project.
> core values and practices
> awareness

Self-Organisation

As we oppose any leadership or hierachical structures, the Biketour is organised in an open way where everyone can be a part of.
> how it’s prepared
> consensus
> circles

Online Tools

We try to use free and open-source software as much as possible in the preparation process. The same goes for sharing photos and videos in the group.
> online-tools
> photo-sharing

On the road

Everyone should be able to cycle with the Biketour. Therefore we keep distances low and have scouts going ahead who mark the route. Everyone can follow the signs on their own level of speed. Any tasks like scouting, cooking or pulling a trailer are shared.
> on the road
> tasks & rota
> trailers
> wildcamping

Food

All communal food on Biketour is vegan and cooked with wood on our mobile rocket stove.
Whenever it’s possible we go dumpster-diving and buy food from local farmers and small shops.
> veganism
> rocket stove
> dumpster-diving

Activities

We plan and make many activities on the tour: skill-sharing, helping at projects, joining actions and protests, bike-fixing and other events.
> skill-sharing

Latest blog posts

How to Bike with Baby and Baggage

Candid July 21, 2026 July 21, 2026

In our FAQ under “Can my child come on the tour with me?”, we list a few ways to transport a child on a bicycle: A child’s seat, a trailer, a cargo bike, a tagalong or a tandem bike. I was part of writing that text a few years ago before I or anyone else present had any idea about children, let alone how to travel with them. Now I want to biketour for the first time with my now 2 years old child and join the Biketour for the Childish Weeks. With my own experience and hearing from other…

More thoughts on consensus for EBT

Ecotopia Biketour July 9, 2026 July 9, 2026

There are some specific factors much worth considering in a particular case of the bike tour, as it’s by far not a typical group to work in such a way – as well as a few things commonly overlooked or underemphasized in most texts about consensus-based decision making. A lot of people who have attended many meetings organized this way (and some who have practice in a facilitator role) and feel familiar about it are not aware enough about them. It’s recommended to reflect on the framework in debates and read extra. What usually receives too little attention is Prerequisites…

Bygdeå, Ubmeje, Olofsfors – lucky start for the tour

Ecotopia Biketour June 30, 2026 June 30, 2026

We have been lucky! Lucky to have been hosted by amazing people in the little vegetable farm in Bygdeå, been invited to their sauna, swimming trips and sharing rhubarb pie … crafting little bycicles with a visiting kid, piling fire wood and singing karaoke! While our stay and preparation time in Bygdeå, we also fixed our bikes, sorted the communal equipment and had a few movie screenings of Sámi films. We enjoyed potatoes, parsnip and beet root from the farm and of course ate quite some knäckebröd. When it was time to say good byes and head towards Ubmeje/Umeå, they…

Pretour to Jåhkamåhke/Jokkmokk

Ecotopia Biketour June 25, 2026 June 25, 2026

note: all place names are (first) written in Sámi language* (and then in Swedish) The start and first weeks of the Biketour this year are in Swedish occupied Sápmi. To travel further and learn more about this region, we decided this year to have a pretour where we travel without our bikes and by hitchhiking instead. Sápmi is the land of indigenous Sámi people, and has been colonized by Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia and its predecessors and since been under their dominion. The colonial and racist treatment of Sámi people continues nowadays especially through so-called green transition with land-grabbing and…