France (local)

Tour dei castelli della Loira in bici, percorso abbreviato adatto alle famiglie.
Durata: 7 giorni.
Tappe: Tours, Villandry, Chenonceaux, Amboise, Blois, Cheverny, St.Dye, Chambord.
Suggerimenti anche per altri tour: tour dei Castelli Romani, dei castelli medievali del Casentino, dei castelli del Trentino, dei castelli della Scozia.

Grazie anche a girolibero.it per i consigli.

This website gives information for on and off road cycling in the Alpes Maritimes inland from the busy roads of the Cote D'Azur.
Detailed descriptions of on and off road cycles, including height graphs and distances.
Photo gallery.
General information about the area - market days, restaurant phone numbers etc.
Information about cycle friendly accommodation with a shopping service to save cyclists carrying heavy shopping on bicycles when coming to an area devoid of shops. There are cycle tools, a lockable garage, all maps are provided, washing machine available.

What you need to know about renting bikes in Paris; bicycling in Paris; subways, trains, and the RER; and cycling out of Paris. French pronunciation; French bicycle types and repair vocabulary; Road signs and their observance; helmets. How to get regional maps, lodging, and tourist sight information. Six bicycle routes and tours out of central Paris, avoiding almost all traffic: Detailed Directions and Photos. On the same site: Seventeen Best Bike Tours in France, Holland, Italy, Germany and Austria.

Eurostar, Paris Metro, TGV, local trains.

This page has a report of the 1999 edition of Paris-Brest-Paris, a history of the Paris-Brest-Paris tour, and other material.

The IGN (Institut Géographique National) has just [Spring 1995] issued a cycling map of France, with the help of FFC (Fédération Française de Cyclisme) and FFCT (Fédération Française de Cyclotourisme).

See also the important note on Bicycles on Trains in France, 1998 from Barbara Leonard's Bicycling à la Française.

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.

>L'AF3V est un organisme à but non lucratif (association Loi 1901) créée le 20 décembre 1997. Elle regroupe les acteurs intéressés au développement des Véloroutes et Voies Vertes en France. L'AF3V est composée des grandes fédérations FFCT (Fédération de cyclotourisme) et FUBICY (Fédération des cyclistes urbains) et de nombreuses associations locales d'usagers porteuses de projets régionaux. Elle est soutenue par le Ministère de l'Aménagement du Territoire et de l'Environnement et le Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports. Elle tend à rassembler, au delà du monde cycliste, les institutions et organisations ayant intérêt au projet dans le secteur de l'aménagement du territoire, des loisirs, du tourisme, du transport et du développement durable.

La FUBicy (Fédération Française des Usagers de la Bicyclette) regroupe la plupart des associations françaises dont l'objectif est de promouvoir l'usage de la bicyclette en tant que moyen de déplacement non polluant, non gaspilleur d'énergie, silencieux et générateur de bien être physique.

The French Federation of Bicycle's Users (FUBicy - Fédération Française des Usagers de la Bicyclette) federates the greater part of the french associations whose aim is to promote the use of bicycle as a mean of transport, which is pollution free, silent, which saves energy and generates physical well-being.