These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies featuring cycling holidays, including gentle bicycle tours, family bicycle holidays, serious sports bike trips, bike events and mountain biking holidays.
These are essentially all the companies worth bothering with. There may be some good activity holiday operators who have bicycle tours but don't really specialise in biking, and there may be a couple of other good companies that we haven't found yet... but only a couple.
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| 2 Wheel Treks |
01483 271212 |
Cycling holidays in the UK and throughout Europe. They also run 'Christian' cycle tours, 'cruise & cycle' holidays along European rivers, and have branched out into walking holidays too (so they prefer to use their new identity, Freedom Treks). |
| Ashby's Europe |
0117 9731737 |
Customised cycling tours in France, Spain, Italy and the UK. Ashby's also run tours in partnership with Country Lanes (See below). |
| Belle France |
01797 223 777 |
Self-guided cycling holidays in France, staying in hotels and/or B&Bs, with arrangements for luggage to be carried on to your next overnight stop. |
| Bents |
01568 780800 |
Cycling tours in Switzerland, Austria, Italy & Germany |
| Bicycle Beano Cycle Tours |
01982 560471 |
Cycling holidays in Wales |
| Bike Events |
01225 480130 |
These guys mainly organise charity bike rides and challenges in the UK and overseas from one-day events to multi-day rides (and they've been doing it for a long time - I remember sending a journalist on one of their trips back in the late 80s! Ed), but they also offer cycling holidays in olland, France and Ireland. |
| BikeGreece |
0115 9830370 |
Bike holidays, for both leisurely and hardcore cyclists, around some of the less well-known areas around Athens.
 Podcast/MP3 clip James Brown of BikeGreece talks about his cycle tours, with Travel-Lists' Alastair McKenzie at the Destinations exhibition in London, Feb 07. (4' 30") |
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| BikeLiner |
01482 222122 |
Cycling holidays run by Simon Hawksley in Ireland and France, using a coach with a bicycle trailer. |
| Bordeaux Cycle Tours |
0121 288 1950 |
Self-guided cycling holidays around the Bordeaux region of France for couples and small groups, families with children, wine-lovers, gourmands and those with only a few days to spare. |
| Byways Breaks |
0151 722 8050 |
Gentle cycling holidays in Cheshire, Shropshire and the Peaks. |
| Capital Sport |
01296 631671 |
Leisurely cycling holidays in southern England |
| Chain Gang, The |
01392 66 22 62 |
Guided group biking tours around the Dordogne, Provence, the Vineyards of Bordeaux, the Loire Valley and Burgundy |
| Cornish Cycle Tours |
01637 880710 |
Supported, self-guided cycling holidays in Cornwall, based on a selection of ten routes for all fitness levels and abilities. The tours range from three to eight days, with the shortest able to be completed in a weekend. |
| Country Lanes |
01425 655022 |
Exploratory cycling tours in the UK. |
| Cycle Active |
01768 881111 |
Mountain biking and small group tours around the world. |
| Cycling for Softies |
0161 248 8282 |
 Suzi Madron's long-established bike company with a name that says it all! Pedal lazily through the lanes of rural France. Long lunches, vinyard visits, family-run hotels, etc, etc |
| Discover Adventure |
01722 741123 |
Mountain biking in the mountains of Europe, Africa, South America & Asia. |
| Exodus |
020 8675 5550 |
Adventure tour operator Exodus has a dedicated cycling programme with a huge range of exotic off-the-beaten-track destinations including China, India, Morocco, Thailand, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Mexico, the USA, Tanzania, Canada, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, France, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Iceland, etc etc |
| Explore Cycle |
01252 760025 |
The adventure specialist created a dedicated cycling brochure/programme (of 17 trips) in 2004, which has now expanded to 34 tours in 28 countries for the 2006/7 season. |
| Freewheel Holidays |
02920 786650 |
Gentle pace cycling holidays in Northern Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark. |
| French Pedals |
0845 8384796 |
Small family run business offering cycling holidays for all levels of cyclist, in Normandy, Champagne-Ardennes, and in Devon & Cornwall. Luggage is transported for you between hotels and they can collect you from the Normandy ferry terminal. |
| Graham Baxter Sporting Tours |
0113 284 3617 |
Cycling tours for sports cyclists |
| Headwater |
01606 720199 |
Walks specialist, Headwater, has a programme of cycling breaks and cycling weekends in France. |
| Hooked on Cycling |
01501 744727 |
Bicycle tours in the UK, Europe (France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic) and Canada. |
| KE Adventure Travel |
017687 73966 |
Vehicle-supported mountain biking tours in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. KE put the 'mountain' in mountain-biking. There are descents from the world's highest road passes in Ladakh, down the maze of single-track trails linking Pokhara to Kathmandu, over the High Atlas in Morocco and around the foothills of Kilimanjaro. |
| LB Freedom Tours |
01442 263377 |
Self-guided cycling holidays in the French and Swiss Alps, Tuscany, Umbria and Sardinia. They take the luggage on to the next hotel for you, leaving you to concentrate on your map, and getting up that next hill. |
| Mountain & Beach |
01159 215065 |
Mountain bike holidays in Greece, France, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, New Zealand, Portugal and Scotland. |
| Neilson |
0870 333 3356 |
Mountain biking in the French and Austrian Alps, Mediterranean and Caribbean |
| Red Spokes |
020 7502 7252 |
Cycle adventure tours in Peru, Pakistan, Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal and Ireland. Specialists in high altitude cycling. |
| Rough Tracks |
07000 560 749 |
A range of road biking and mountain biking tours in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and France. Also cycling weekends in the UK. |
| Saddle Skedaddle |
0191 265 1110 |
Small group cycling holidays worldwide |
| Sherpa Expeditions |
020 8577 2717 |
 Self-guided 'inn-to-inn' cycling holidays in Britain & Europe. |
| Spice Roads |
020 7221 9357 |
Specialist bicycle tour operator in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia.) with an office in London. |
| Suffolk Cycle Breaks |
01449 721555 |
Cycling Holidays in Suffolk and Norfolk. |
| Tourdust |
n/a |
Online agency specialising in a range of tours, excursions, courses and activities from local suppliers worldwide...including a good selection of cycling and mountain biking trips. |
| utracks |
n/a |
Self-guided cycle tours in European locations. |
| Vista Trails |
01686 412042 |
Vista operate biking/mountain-biking (& walking) holidays in Mid Wales and Montenegro for all abilities, guided or self guided. They also offer girls-only breaks through their Outdoorgirlz program. |
| Velocamp |
020 8673 5897 |
Hard core cycle holiday and training breaks in France. |
| Wheely Wonderful Cycling Company |
01568 770755 |
Cycling (& walking) holidays in Wales, Herefordshire & Shropshire. |
| Wildcat Bike Tours |
01786 464333 |
Adventure bike tours in Spain, Morocco, the USA, Mongolia and Scotland |
| Wide Open Road |
n/a |
Cycle Tours to France, Italy, Switzerland and Australia. |
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| Notes: | * | Bike Iberia is not UK-based, and so doesn't appear in the list above but they are definitely worth checking out if you are interested in fierce off-road, or gentle on-road cycling in Portugal & Spain. |
| * | Bike Denmark operate cycling holidays through the Danish (& Swedish) countryside with luggage transported ahead to your next hotel or guest house. |
| * | Italy Bike Hotels is a network of hotels around Italy offering accommodation and technical services for cyclists, created by and for cyclists. |
| * | German tour operator Rotalis has been operating escorted group cycling tours in Europe for 30 years. They are featuring cycle tours in Germany & Austria, France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic States. |
| * | Cycle Rides arrange rides and events for groups & charities. |
| * | Cycle the Dordogne organises self-guided cycle tours in the Dordorgne and Lot departments of South-West France. |
| * | Breton Bikes. Brittany-based husband & wife team, Kate & Geoff Husband (sic) have been operating cycle trips in France since 1989. Their trips are camping or hotel-based and cater for beginners or serious cycle fans. |
| * | Light Electric Vehicles (0845 602 6652) hire electric bicycles for touring the lanes around the coast of Suffolk. |
| * | BikeHike (0808 2341403) is based in Vancouver but markets itself globally including here in the UK. They operate adventure bikes tours in 'off the beaten track' places all over the world. |
| * | Indebted to a visitor, Sarah Morris, who emailed this excellent resource listing a bunch of cycling companies in Europe...mostly. |
| * | Pro Cycling Tours operate experienced cyclist tours in NE Spain near Figueres (Costa Brava), with a unique cycling training camp tailored for individual needs, and with the option of sports rehabilitation with a specialist in sports injurys. They also offer accommodation and adventure holidays for non-cyclists, sky diving, and a 6-night walking tour of the region. |
| * | Ciclismo Classico operates cycling tours in destinations worldwide. They are based in Tuscany and Boston, USA. The bulk of their clients are Americans but Andrew Conway at their Boston office says "We love booking Britons on our tours! I lived in the UK for years and still get homesick". |
