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Bike Tours for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide

Bike Tours for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide

Picture yourself on a sunny morning, mounting your bike and setting off for a two-wheeled adventure. You feel the wind in your hair, hear the... Read more

Tips and Advice / July 24, 2023

Bicycle Tourism Will Show the Responsible Way in a Post-Pandemic World

Bicycle Tourism Will Show the Responsible Way in a Post-Pandemic World

By: Jim Johnson, BikeTours.com president and founder In recent decades, tourism has fallen victim to the “more is better” approach. More buse... Read more

Tips and Advice / April 09, 2021

Bike tour trends for 2020

Bike tour trends for 2020

We’ve been sending clients on European bicycle tours for sixteen years, so we’d like to think we know a thing or two about the latest trends i... Read more

Inspiration / January 07, 2020

Your First Tour: A Q&A

Your First Tour: A Q&A

First-time bicycle touring brings up many questions—how will I feel? How should I prepare? What if I need a break?BikeTour.com founder Jim Joh... Read more

Stories / May 06, 2019

The nine fears

The nine fears

Bicycle tours are for almost everyone. Still, we hear a lot of concerns that keep people from enjoying what might have been their vacation of... Read more

Tips and Advice / April 24, 2019

Why you should do your next tour by bike

Why you should do your next tour by bike

Some years ago, a cycling group I was with rolled into a village square in the Slovenian countryside and started to fill our water bottles in... Read more

Inspiration / April 05, 2019