These are some cycle touring resources which you might find useful when planning your adventures.
Recordings of festival talks
Many talks from the Virtual Cycle Touring Festivals have been recorded and are available to watch online, free of charge.
Click here to view the CTF YouTube Channel.
Route planning
- National Cycle Network map: Sustrans routes on an interactive map
- Komoot: plan your own trip and be inspired by others
- Cycle.travel: detailed guides to a selection of cycle touring routes
- Eurovelo: long-distance routes across Europe (some better than others!)
- Eurovelo GPS tracks: downloadable GPs tracks for the most popular EV routes
Planning a big trip
- How to cycle around the world by Tim Moss: useful guide to doing a big bike journey
- Long Distance Cycle Journeys database: includes data from over 400 cyclists about their long distance journeys
- Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook by Harriet and Neil Pike (the best place to start planning a big trip)
- Tom’s Bike Trip: lots of practical information about choosing bikes & kit from Tom Allen
- Travelling Two: general resources from a couple based in the Netherlands, useful for information about specific countries
- World Biking: general resources from a couple aiming to cycle every country in the world
- Crazy Guy on a Bike: huge number of cycle touring blogs
Area and route-specific resources
- Lands End to John O’Groats: tips and advice about this iconic route, including downloadable route files
- London to Paris via Avenue Verte: an excellent and largely traffic free route between the two capitals
- Cycling Europe: comprehensive website by Andrew Sykes all about cycling in Europe, including podcast and films
- Adventure Cycling Association: long distance routes across the USA
- Andes by Bike: the resource if you’re heading to the Andes (by Harriet and Neil Pike)
- Japan Cycling Navigator: Japan can be a busy place to cycle and this offers quieter roads for a Japan end-to-end trip
- Hokkaido Wilds / 14 Degrees North: invaluable for planning offroad trips in Hokkaido, Japan
- Cycling Armenia: comprehensive resource for planning an Armenian adventure
- New Zealand (Tour Aotearoa route): New Zealand end to end
- New Zealand (other routes): various other routes planned by the same people behind the Tour Aotearoa
Accommodation for cyclists
- Couch Surfing: worldwide reciprocal hosting website
- Warm Showers: Couch Surfing for cycle tourists (don’t forget to join Cycle Touring Friends, our own UK version!)
- Vrienden op de fiets: Dutch hospitality network for cyclists and hikers
- Shelter: Denmark has a network of free campsites, use this app to find them
Bikepacking
- Bikepacking.com: routes, how-to guides, gear reviews and more
- Cycling UK’s bikepacking guide: includes gear reviews and links to routes such as the King Alfred’s Way
General resources
- Cycling UK: huge library of resources including guides to different types of cycling, maintenance videos and more. Well worth joining as member!
- We Are Touring and Cycling Touring: find other people to tour the world with
- Bicycle Traveller magazine: free e-magazine all about cycle touring (includes links to several free e-books)
- Cycle Sprog: the definitive website about family cycling
- Bike, Camp, Cook: comprehensive guide to cooking and eating well on a bike tour (purchase required)
- Cooking on tour: Sarah & Bernard Wragge-Morley’s excellent blog about cooking on tour, along with lots of other information (this one is all free!)