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 2009-07-11

biketour July 10, 2009 July 10, 2009

Tomorrow well cycle sraigt to Bitola, so no night in Debreste. # After a rough climb, losing some people (who found Joao) we now stay at the monastery of Zrze. #

The Smelter of Veles

daniel July 10, 2009 July 10, 2009

On the 7th and 8th of July the biketour visited the town of Veles. Veles is well know for it is high level of pollution. The pollution is mainly due to a very old iron smelter build in the early seventies by a German company. The smelter produced high polluted smoke which is blown by the wind in the direction of the town of Veles. What impacts the health of Veles’ people even wore is a big hill of heavy metal dust laying a round next to the old factor. The factory is close now for 5 years, but the…

Biketour update for 2009-07-09

biketour July 9, 2009 July 9, 2009

We are in the nature, under the sun of Teovo, far away from the factory of Veles. Prg: river. #

Biketour update for 2009-07-08

biketour July 8, 2009 July 8, 2009

Video Veles Kaputt: http://bit.ly/1jCPx Tomorrow we’ll cycle by the smelter. # Video Veles Kaputt: http://bit.ly/ZCmb7 Tomorrow we cycle by the smelter. # Oops… the translation for the website works again – thanks Matthew! – and we can send sms again! # Mooi, vertaling van de website werkt weer (thanks Matthew!) en we kunnen weer sms’en! # Just had talk and film screening of “Veles Kaputt” with Greenpower in Veles. Were staying at Veles lake, 10 km North of Veles. # twitter doesn’t seem to work from our macedonian phone, so swiching back to bosnian #