Ecotopia Biketour is a self-organized environmental and social activist bicycle tour that has been cycling through different parts of Europe each summer since 1990. On our way we visit social and environmental projects and groups, to learn about their struggles and visions, to exchange knowledge, to create connections and to support them by participating in actions or doing some physical work. Read more about what the Ecotopia Biketour is.

Ecotopia Biketour 2017 will go through Germany, France and may be to Switzerland and eastern Spain. A more specific route will be announced on the website as soon as it is decided. If you have some recommendations for projects, groups and events for us to visit on the way or would like to help preparing the tour, write to 2017@ecotopiabiketour.net. Read more about Ecotopia Biketour 2017.

Biketour concepts

Participation guidelines

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.

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.

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.

=>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

Museum of Local Life and the stone flower for the victims of Jasenovac

kate August 29, 2013 October 4, 2013

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. After wild camping near to the the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, we set off next morning, despite the rain, for our 70 km cycling day along the Sava river. En route a few of us took the opportunity to visit a local social anthropology/ ethnographic museum in someone’s back garden. Without any common language we were able to communicate…

Green Action Zagreb and the BIC POP!

kate August 28, 2013 October 25, 2013

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. .In Zagreb we were warmly hosted at Green Action, Zelena Akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia, who welcomed us with a party with some of the local activists dealing with local migration and environmental struggles. Over the few days there we held an info exchange with local migration activists, visited two of the nearby politically active squats/ free…

Screengrabs of Slovenia scenery

syl August 26, 2013 August 26, 2013

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. I am leaving the bike tour today to travel on my own for two weeks. It has been an interesting journey, there were amazing memories such as dancing to a band called Bi Patriot? in a slovenian town near the Austrian border, playing bumper cars without electricity, many Radlers, interesting workshops and more. Anyway, I am uploading a screenshot…

Grenzen bürokratischer Ausrüstung und Bewegungsfreiheit

grenzblog August 24, 2013 October 6, 2013

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Da haben wir sie: Unsere eigene erste einschneidende (Staats-)Grenz-Erfahrung auf der Tour! Nicht, dass es in groesseren Gruppen nicht zu erwarten waere, dass irgendwer irgendwie geartete “falsche” Papiere dabei hat und beim Grenzuebertritt Probleme hat. Was nur verwunderte, war die Art des heute aufgetretenen Problems: Es handelte sich naemlich nicht um vergessene, verlorene oder nur noch wenige Tage gueltige…