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

Ecotopia Biketour in KLEINE ZEITUNG

BTcoord2013 August 21, 2013 August 25, 2013

A Newspaper Article about us just appeared in the local pages of KLEINE ZEITUNG: http://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/voelkermarkt/3385125/radtour-europa-stopp-leppen.story

The high road or the low road…view from the hard pass

kate August 17, 2013 October 25, 2013

After a long 1000km accent… admiring the view from the Slovenian mountains and my trusty steed…

Waking up the biketour way!

kate August 17, 2013 October 25, 2013

You can do it Natty! Some of us get over our fears and jump for West Papua, whilst others enjoy the alternative way to wake up before a days cycle…

CAAP – Centre for Autonomous Production and Active Citizens, Maribor

kate August 16, 2013 October 5, 2013

In Maribor we slept at the Pekarna Squat, a huge complex of bars, music rooms and an anarchist book shop. The following day we met local bike activists at the CAAP, – Centre for Autonomous Production and Active Ctizens, where we had the chance to look over our bikes in the DIY bike workshop, were shown around the cooperative including a seed library, seminar space, work with Roma communities and the acclaimed Urban Furows project. The centre wishes to promote sustainability, autonomy and active citizenship. One example was empowering people to do something about the issues that mattered to them.…