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

Climate activists in front of Danish Embassy in Brussels

Laura Agosto 29, 2010 August 29, 2010

From De wereld van morgen (The world of tomorrow) Brussel — Enkele tientallen activisten protesteerden woensdag voor de Deense ambassade in Brussel. Ze eisen de onmiddellijke stopzetting van de juridische vervolging van zeven klimaatactivisten. De zeven activisten namen deel aan acties tijdens de Klimaattop in Kopenhagen afgelopen december. Volgens de actievoerders is deze vervolging een criminalisering van de milieubeweging.

Biketour update for 2010-08-28

biketour Agosto 28, 2010 August 28, 2010

Biketour cycled its last day this year to arrive in Cologne yesterday to join the newly-formed critical mass here we doubled the numbers! # Video of protest biketour joined in Brussels: http://www.dewereldmorgen.be/video/2010/08/19/klimaatactivisten-protesteren-voor-deense-ambassade #

Biketour update for 2010-08-24

biketour Agosto 24, 2010 August 24, 2010

dear cyclists At the end of this years tour we will have a party to celebrate the 20th birthday of the tour – and u all are warmly welcome # http://twitvid.com/AHCTV RT @ Ecotopia bike tour onderweg! # I uploaded a YouTube video — 20100823 ecobike tour Internet http://youtu.be/yRs-O249i-g?a # In the Netherlands & on Limburg TV highlighting some ridiculous highway plans: http://bit.ly/9LecVp & more info: http://ping.fm/7jaa3 # Groenfront and Stop-AWACS # Buitenring Parkstad # Biketour update for 2010-08-23 #

Biketour update for 2010-08-23

biketour Agosto 23, 2010 August 23, 2010

In the Netherlands & on Limburg TV highlighting some ridiculous highway plans: http://bit.ly/9LecVp & more info: http://bit.ly/99GcVZ # RT @wmclimateaction: Eviction Imminent at Huntington Lane http://wp.me/pNNLC-5s UK Coal are preparing papers for a court order #