Europe (local)

An extensive guide, packed with lots of useful information. This guide has been written in an effort to help prospective cyclists get the maximum out of their European cycling experience. It based on knowledge gleaned from my many European tours and those of others, most notably, Chris Wiscavage who never gave me an incorrect piece of advice.

Another American perspective to bicycle touring in Europe. Very extensive and detailed; particularly useful for the novice.

See also the Biking Gallery of photographs.

This is roughly what I bring along for three weeks of cycle touring and camping.

Taking a bicycle to Europe, renting bicycles, packing list, pre-tour maintenance, equipment, tips while on the road (maps, roads, paved climbs, when to go, cleaning, riding in the rain), hotels, food, weather, trains, and lots of good rules and observations.

Packing list, equipment, panniers, tools.

Exhaustive packing list for bicycle touring.

A prime example of how to make an excellent site out of a good idea. Although it does not covers especially bicycle touring, it contains much useful advice. The page will ask you for details about your planned trip and generate a detailed list of things to do and bring for that specific tour. No bicycle-related items though.

Very detailed checklist for a very long (12000km) tour for two people, with equipment for tent camping and cooking.

Pari Mont-Blanc is a challenge for two men, Eric Foulon and Pascal Carré, to climb the Mont-Blanc by an ambitious and original way: departure from Paris to Saint-Gervais by bicycle and arrival at the Mont-Blanc by the Dome du Gouter

from the pages of the Ariège region, has some information about events in the area.

Biking Netherlands - Top biking Netherlands Resources.

Welkom op de fietswebsite voor Amersfoort, Nederland, België en Wereldwijd! Dit is de (eerste) website voor fietsliefhebbers, die op zoek zijn naar mooie fietsroutes rond Amersfoort, in Nederland, in Belgi en Wereldwijd. Met de unieke 1-2-3 formule: 1. zoeken 2. printen en 3. fietsen!

Bicycle path along the digital highway, mostly in Dutch. Fairly offensive advertising.

De Vraagbaak - Hier antwoorden op de meest gestelde vragen, tests en honderden adviezen van andere fietsers. U kunt ook zelf een nieuwe vraag stellen of antwoord geven. Fietsrouteplanner, Hippe bakfietsen, Slotentest, Fietsenwinkels.

This website is a personal, non-commercial attempt to make available the experience of hundreds of individual bicycle tourists who travel some distance to get to a place for their tour. Either we travel with our bikes or we rent bikes when we arrive. We take airlines, trains, buses, or ferries.

Viewed from the saddle: some selected info for foreigners considering a cycling trip in or through the Netherlands, to get an idea of cycling life overhere.

These are not tourist or recreational cycle routes. They might be interesting for students in in urban planning, architecture, geography, and landscape history.

• Amsterdam Cycle Route 2: Spaarndam/Velserbroek: heritage+suburban landscape. Ancient sea defences embedded in a peri-urban landscape where farming is giving way to new housing and golf courses: a typical VINEX landscape, with older settlements heritage-ised.
• Amsterdam Cycle Route 3: dune villas, ruins, and infrastructure The narrow strip of lands just behind the dunes has the oldest continuous habitation: a few traces remain. The dunes are suburbanised since the 19-th century, and cut through by the sea lock complex at IJmuiden into the North Sea Canal.

• Jerusalem for Bicycles
• Tel-Aviv Bikers' Association
• Haifa for Bicycles
• Critical Mass

Has a map of bike paths inside Florence, a calendary of events in Florence and Tuscany, a list of bicycle shops, and will have descriptions of rides around Florence, and also... inside it!!!

Cycling photographer Sue Darlow has lived for many years in the city of Modena, where you don't have to be a cyclist to cycle.

The first time I visited Modena, a small city near Bologna in the plain sandwiched between the Apennines and the Alps, and famous for its balsamic vinegar, I cycled there from the airport. What a pleasant surprise. In addition to a lovely porticoed city centre painted in warm yellows and earthy browns and the magnificent marble Romanesque cathedral, the place was alive with cyclists. [...]

Now that I have lived here for so many years and observed the Modenese awheel, something has dawned on me: a 'bike culture' is not necessarily something that is self-consciously created by people who love and promote cycling, who know all about gear ratios, aerodynamics and frame angles and who dress the part.

Bicycle paths in Turin.