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| Cycle touring in Northumberland – while it may not be the first place you think of for a cycling
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holidays and cycle touring
2 Wheel Tours
based: East Lothian, Scotland, UK
website: www.2wheel-tours.com
Exploring Scotland by bike is the only way to truly appreciate its majesty and tranquility. 2 Wheel Tours specialise in exploring the most beautiful and interesting parts of this magnificent wee country and design flexible itineraries to suit all tastes and fitness levels. Tours can be guided or self-led.
| cycle touring | tandem biking | ethical/ecotourism | tailor made | Scotland |
Abdet
Holidays Spain
based: Costa Blanca, Spain
website: www.abdet.com
The rugged mountains of the Costa Blanca offer a wonderful landscape of pinnacled
ridges, enormous crags and shady pines. Orange and almond groves enhance the
valleys, whilst attractive mountain villages provide hospitality, offering a
real Spanish experience. Abdet is an ideal year round base; offering guided
and unguided walking and cycling.
| walking/trekking/hiking | unguided
walking | cycle touring | mountain biking | Spain |
Active
Gourmet Holidays
based: Connecticut, USA
website: www.activegourmetholidays.com
Culinary vacations in Italy, France and Spain that include three
or four star accommodation, cooking lessons with local chefs, vineyard
visits with wine tastings and wine education, visits to markets
and local food producers, gourmet meals. Holidays can be paired
with walking, hiking, biking, yoga, painting, language lessons and
more.
| cookery | gastronomic
| wine appreciation/tasting | walking/trekking/hiking | cycle
touring | painting/drawing | yoga | garden tours | Italy | France
| Spain | Western Europe |
Activities
Abroad
based: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
website: www.activitiesabroad.com
Activities Abroad provide activity holidays throughout Europe for
families and adult only groups. From white water rafting and skydiving
in Spain to canyoning in Greece, cycling and mountain biking in
France and sea kayaking in Turkey, these holidays are a great choice
for anybody interested in a healthy outdoor lifestyle.
| mountain biking
| cycle touring | multi-activity |
walking/trekking/hiking | white water rafting | canyoning/gorge walking | climbing/scrambling
| canoeing/kayaking | via ferrata | parachuting/skydiving/parascending | horse/pony trekking | Europe |
Alaska Backcountry Bike Tours
based: Alaska, USA
website: www.mountainbikealaska.com
Mountain biking and road cycling adventure company, offering backcountry mt bike and cycling tours in the last wild place on Earth; with multi-day tours for all riding abilities.
| mountain biking
| cycle touring | USA |
Alpine Elements
based: London, UK
website: www.alpineelements.co.uk
Skiing, snowboarding and activity holidays from catered chalets and hotels in the French and Italian Alps. Ski weekends, packaged ski holidays and mountain biking or multi-activity breaks for families. Also offering white water rafting, canyoning, cycling and climbing. Resorts are Chamonix, Morzine, Tignes, Les Arcs, Courchevel, Les Gets and Meribel.
| skiing (piste) | snowboarding | ski weekends | multi-activity | mountain biking | walking/trekking/hiking | via ferrata | white water rafting | cycle touring | waterskiing | canyoning/gorge walking | France |
America by Bicycle
based: Connecticut, USA
website: www.abbike.com
Fully-supported bicycle touring vacations in America, specializing in long distance cross-country touring trips; including a coast-to-coast cycling adventure of a lifetime!
| cycle
touring | USA |
Andalucian Cycling Experience
based: Malaga, Spain
website: www.andaluciancyclingexperience.com
Passionate about pedalling, bonkers about bikes, mad about mountains!
Cycling holidays for roadies and mountain bikers in southern Spain.
Rides are guided or self led. The riding from easy-going, to a full-on
weeks training and anything in between. Aiming to give a
first class service with a personal touch.
| cycle touring | mountain
biking | Spain |
Bike Switzerland
based: Switzerland & USA
website: www.bikeswitzerland.com
Bike tours across Switzerland, with a choice of two tours at different levels, independent and guided cycling tours and vacations.
| cycle
touring | Switzerland |
Bordeaux Cycle Tours Limited
based: Bordeaux, France
website: www.cyclebordeaux.co.uk
Cycling holidays in France – cycle tours through the vineyards, valleys and forests surrounding Bordeaux. Carefree self-guided cycle tours for couples, small groups, families and wine-lovers, ranging from 4 night short breaks to 10 day bicycle trips that are adventures in the French art of living.
| cycle touring | wine tours | family/child friendly | weekends/short breaks | France |
Byways Breaks
based: Cheshire, UK
website: www.byways-breaks.co.uk
Cycling and walking holidays in Shropshire, Cheshire and Welsh borders. Comfortable accommodation with good food including farms, hotels and pubs. Routes are carefully selected to explore the best countryside and visit places of interest. Offering a range of holidays suitable for all abilities. Full back-up including luggage transfer.
| cycle touring | unguided walking | long distance walks | luggage transported | family/child friendly | tailor made | weekends/short breaks | England | Wales |
Calabash Adventures Ltd
based: Arusha, Tanzania
website: calabashadventures.com
African safari holidays, Calabash offers a large range of different safari itineraries that will enable visitors to experience the natural environment and true wilderness of the continent. The company offers a reliable and competitive service covering the most spectacular game viewing areas in Africa.
| animals/safari | aerial safaris | camping safaris | walking/trekking safaris | horse back safaris | tailor made | cycle touring | weddings/honeymoons | Tanzania | Zambia | Rwanda | Zimbabwe |
Cicloturisme
based: Girona, Spain
website: www.cicloturisme.com
Specialized holiday company offering guided and self-guided cycling, mountain biking and walking trips from Girona, in Catalonia, north east Spain. Based in the heart of an area renowned for it's cycling, with excellent mountain roads, tranquil countryside, rolling hills, twisting woodland singletrack and stunning Mediterranean beaches and coastline.
| cycle touring | mountain biking | tandem biking | unguided walking | luggage transported | team building/management courses | Spain |
Cousins Tours & Travel
based: Victoria, Australia
website: www.cousinstt.com
Cousins Tours and Travel is a boutique travel agency specialising in concept tours. Whatever your passion be it sport, art, food, wine or fashion – cycle the Tour de France, feast in gourmet Italia, take art lessons in Asia or explore Thailand's hidden fashion precincts, to name just a few.
| cycle touring | swimming | painting/drawing | wine tours | sailing (small boat/yacht) | running | Turkey | Europe | Australia | Asia |
Creative Catalonia
based: Girona, Spain
website: www.creativecatalonia.com
Creative Catalonia is a bike and walking holiday specialist for the Barcelona and Girona regions of Catalonia, Spain. They are located just 25 minutes from Girona and just over an hour from Barcelona and will help you discover the best of Catalonia by bike or on foot. Also other sporting holidays offered.
| cycle touring | mountain biking | walking/trekking/hiking | unguided walking | running/athletics | tennis | golf | Spain |
CycleActive
based: Cumbria, UK
website: www.cycleactive.co.uk
CycleActive offers cycling holidays and mountain bike holidays and training for all ages, abilities and interests, all over the world. Their commitment to cycling, their highly qualified leaders and their years of experience mean they can offer an excellent service and a range of unique holidays and tours.
| mountain biking | cycle touring | cycling training | family/child friendly | schools tours | tailor made | groups | UK | Western Europe | North America | South America | Africa | Asia |
Cyclomundo
based: Rhone-Alpes, France
website: www.cyclomundo.com
Cyclomundo is a travel company offering a wide array of self-guided, guided, and customized 'à la carte' cycling vacations for independent riders, families, friends, or groups in France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. They are also the France-based Official Tour Operator for the Etape du Tour and for the Marmotte sportive.
| cycle touring | cycling training | France | Italy | Spain | Switzerland |
Escape Adventures
based: Golden Bay, New Zealand
website: www.escapeadventures.co.nz
Small group biking adventures in Africa, New Zealand, South America and Asia. Escape
Adventures are a small personal company with a passion for exploring our amazing
planet by bike after a few days cycling, you'll realise that this is
the only way to truly immerse yourself in your chosen destination.
| cycle touring | mountain biking
| camping safaris | native peoples | Africa | South America | Australasia |
Kenya | Tanzania | Uganda | Asia | New Zealand |
Evasion Travel Ltd
based: Dorset, UK
website: www.evasiontravel.co.uk
Active holidays in the Ardeche, France. Situated deep in the south, the Ardeche is a place of rugged natural beauty with a Mediterranean climate that brings over 300 days of sunshine each year. Surprisingly accessible and with enormous scope for exploration, the Ardeche is packed with excitement for every adventurous spirit.
| walking/trekking/hiking | mountain biking | canoeing/kayaking | cycle touring | horse/pony trekking | unguided walking | ropes course | singles holidays | tailor made | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | stag/hen | France |
G.A.P Adventures – the Great Adventure People Featured Site
based: Canada, London & Worldwide
website: G.A.P. Adventures

Cycle tours by road, track and trail to adventurous locations; and mountain biking trips to wild places worldwide! Cycle touring holidays and mt bike trips to destinations such as Cambodia, Tibet, Japan, Peru, Tasmania and Cuba; and more mellow destinations closer to home such as Italy and Ireland. (PS they're not a 'gap year' company, just an enthusiastic adventure travel business!)
| mountain biking | cycle
touring | ethical/ecotourism | Worldwide |
Get Cycling
based: Yorkshire, UK
website: www.getcycling.org.uk
Annual 'Get Cycling Week' holidays, based in public schools
or other historic venues in great cycling country, a cycling holiday unlike any other! Including
daily guided rides, opportunities to try out a range of cycles,
social activities, cycling films, maintenance classes and talks
by cycling personalities. Get Cycling is an organisation
set up to promote cycling, in all its forms for leisure, transport,
health, happiness and the environment.
| cycle touring | UK |
Girona Cycling S.L.
based: Girona, Spain
website: www.gironacycling.com
Cycling and triathlon training camps, and cycling, mountain biking, running and hiking trips in the Pyrenees. Girona Cycling have a custom sports hotel in some of the best cycling and mountain biking country Spain has to offer. The hotel has a pool, gym, 11 en-suite rooms and offers bike rental.
| cycle touring | cycling training | mountain biking | running | triathlon | swimming | walking/trekking/hiking | unguided walking | multi-activity | Spain |
Headwater Holidays
based: Cheshire, UK
website: www.headwater.com
Headwater Holidays specialise in walking, cycling, cross country skiing and relaxed activity holidays throughout Europe, the Med, Africa and Latin America.
| cycle touring | walking/trekking/hiking | cross-country skiing | canoeing/kayaking | Europe | Africa | South America |
High Point Holidays
based: Dorset, UK
website: www.highpointholidays.co.uk
Specialising in activity breaks in France, High Point Holidays is your ticket to discovering special, hidden places whilst indulging in the French way of life. Offering guided and independent walking, cycling, golf, city and event breaks. Unique guided walks in small groups that let you enjoy more of each fascinating region.
| walking/trekking/hiking | unguided walking | luggage transported | cycle touring | mountain biking | golf breaks | wine appreciation/tasting | city breaks | tailor made | France |
Hooked on Cycling
based: West Lothian, Scotland, UK
website: www.hookedoncycling.co.uk
Hooked on Cycling provide self guided and guided cycling holidays in 18 European countries plus, New Zealand, Canada, Guatemala and Tasmania. Their biking tours run throughout the year and are for all abilities from beginning to sport cyclist.
| cycle touring | mountain biking | France | Italy | Austria | Hungary | Portugal | Scotland | Germany | Slovenia | Canada | Spain |
iBikeItaly
based: Tuscany, Italy
website: www.ibikeitaly.com
Leisurely, professionally guided and fully supported, 1 and 2-day bike rides in the Tuscan countryside just outside of Florence. These tours offer a discount for stundents and younger travelers under the age of 26.
| cycle touring | student travel/discounts | Italy |
KeyCamp
Holidays
based: UK
website: KeyCamp
Holidays
Ideal for all ages from families, with
a range of children's clubs for tots to teens or couples
seeking an activity holiday, with activities from
horse riding to cycling and sailing to scuba diving. Available in
France, Italy, Holland, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Detailed cycling notes are available
on many sites, including easy rides for famailies with young children
and more challenging cycling which may include off-road sections.
Local bike hire (including baby seats) can be arranged.
| family/child
friendly | cycle touring | theme park | windsurfing
| sailing (small boat/yacht) | diving/snorkelling | canoeing/kayaking | horse/pony trekking | football/soccer | wine appreciation/tasting | battlefield tours/war graves tours | Europe |
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