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 e Critical mass a Venezia by Raimondo TV

taborda septiembre 25, 2012 May 13, 2013

Beyond our Backyards international meeting

taborda septiembre 23, 2012 September 24, 2012

Another week full of warm hospitality while cycling in italy…

taborda septiembre 20, 2012 September 20, 2012

Ecotopia Biketour salvó a las bicicletas

david septiembre 20, 2012 September 20, 2012

Hallada fosa común en Barcelona con 234.576 cadáveres “El Ecotopiabiketour salvó las bicicletas” Venezia 17 de Septiembre 2012 No son víctimas de la guerra civil española. Los restos encontrados en la sierra de Collserola (Barcelona) son mucho más antiguos. Paleontólogos de La Sorbonne los han sometido a las pruebas de carbono-14 y han llegado a la sorprendente conclusión de que remontan 250.000 años atrás, a la época en que se data convencionalmente la aparición del Homo Sapiens. Más sorprendente aún, no se trata de restos humanos sino de esqueletos de… bicicletas. En el límite del Plioceno y del Pleistoceno existió…