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 Winter Meeting is happening!
hello everyone, missed us? —- some people have started to form an orga for ecotopia 2025. wanna be part of it? send an e-mail to info@ecotopiabiketour.net —- next year we’ll go to northern france! and possibly some surrounding regions/countries. —- there will be a winter meeting in vienna on the second weekend of january. please come if you want to do orga work! please only come if you know you have some capacities for orga work! —- Thursday 09. and morning of Friday 10. will be some time for arriving, hanging out, catching up —- 10.-12. will be days mostly commited…
Antiracism Reading Circle: Let’s learn together!
The Ecotopia Bike Tour touches by it’s nature on many aspects of life where people with racial privilege will have a different experience than those without, for example crossing borders, hitchhiking to the bike tour, dumpster diving, camping in places where people may not expect us… We also find that during the bike tour, we often lack understanding of each other’s struggles. While Ecotopia has the values of antiracism and ”trying to be open for all” we also find aspects of our own biases back in how we organize. It should also be noted that the bike tour remains mostly…
day by day: RIGA — LIEPAJA
26.08 Riga, Fukusima Struggling with finding my way to Fukusima, but getting a reply quickly when I ask for help. Being welcomed by the only person I know there. Eating my lunch together with the food which is immediately offered to me, some couscous and pickled vegetables and mushrooms, while the question “Is it better to have diarrhea or to vomit while biking?” is discussed. People apologize for the imagery, and I say that I don’t mind and sharing related stories of my own. Eating pancakes with banana and peanut butter and chocolate paste. Repairing the roof of an overwater…
Kombinatas Fest and Back To Biking 15.08.-22.08.24
Our ecotopian experience started at Kombinatas Fest, in a north-east lithuanian campsite, the 15th of August. Getting there from Barcelona was a challenging experience on itself, taking into account our willigness to avoid planes. But we achieved it!! And realised that there is still much to be done in improving train connections, prices and bike users friendlyness. In that last aspect, there was one key ingredient that helped us a lot: bike sharing among the ecotopian group. Since the group was changing, there were two kind and cool people leaving two bikes that were incredible matching our sizes and expectations.…