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

Biketour update for 2010-06-30

biketour June 30, 2010 June 30, 2010

Halfway through our Seeds of Change workshop on consensus and facilitation, trying to get to the underlying cause of problems we have had # Still in York around the Towards Carfree Cities Conference. Today we have a full day workshop on consensus led by Seeds of Change's Rebecca #

Biketour update for 2010-06-29

biketour June 29, 2010 June 29, 2010

At the TCC conference going on a tour of spaces to play in #

Biketour update for 2010-06-28

biketour June 28, 2010 June 28, 2010

Now we are in York, getting ready to go to the Towards Carfree Cities Conference tomorrow, and thinking about going on a Carfree pubcrawl. # After 2 days of pushing bikes up hills in North Yorkshire we have decided that we should call this the first Ecotopia Walktour # On Saturday night we watched Beauty and the Bike with Darlington Cycle Campaign http://www.bikebeauty.org # Just left Botton Village where we stayed last night and came up a 33% gradient!!! http://yfrog.com/0mr2hj #

Biketour update for 2010-06-27

biketour June 27, 2010 June 27, 2010

First full day of cycling starts after a photo for the Northern Echo http://yfrog.com/0vhqzfj #