Some cities only make sense from a saddle.
Which Amsterdam tour actually leaves the centre. Whether the Porto hills need a motor. What a morning on the Appian Way costs and how far you really pedal. Reviews of the cycling tours you can book, wherever you are going.
Four rides that explain what a good bike tour feels like.
A flat classic, a hill city with a motor, an ancient road and a desert loop. What each costs, and what the riders who took it say.
01The flat classicBig Bike tour Amsterdam – See all in 3 unforgettable hoursThree hours through the canal belt and out past the Rijksmuseum, on a city bike, in a city built for it.
02With a motor3-Hour Porto Highlights on a Electric Bike Guided TourPorto is a staircase. The battery turns the climb back up from the river into a non-event.
03Out of the centreAppian Way, Catacombs, & Roman Aqueducts E-bike TourThe original Roman road, aqueduct arches and the catacombs, with a long stretch of cobble nobody else gets to ride.
04The big landscapeRed Rock Canyon eBike Half-Day TourRed sandstone, a thirteen-mile scenic loop and enough assist to enjoy the descent instead of surviving it.
Six countries that hand you a bike and get out of the way.
Flat canal cities and desert loops, Roman roads and rice-field tracks, vineyard gravel and temple lanes. Six places to start, and the best day in the saddle in each.
America is three different bike holidays wearing one flag.
A canyon loop on an assisted bike, a city morning between the bridges, or a rented hybrid and a park to yourself. What it costs to get on each one.
The e-bike quietly took over the guided ride.
Batteries flattened Lisbon, Porto and half of Rome, and they let a mixed group stay together for four hours instead of splintering on the first climb. These are the assisted days people book most.
The cycling tours more riders take than any others.
Every cycling tour we have reviewed →Thousands of riders have already been on these. What earns each of them the slot, and what it costs to join.
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Lion City Bike Tour of Singapore
Ride through Singapore with a local guide such as Benny, Holden, James, Wyman, or JoJo on a four-hour small-group tour. You’ll pass Marina Bay, the F1 circuit, Chinatown, Little India, Haji Lane, and Kampong Glam, with frequent photo, drink, and snack stops. The route is mostly gentle, but you must be comfortable riding in city traffic and heat.
From · $68
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Big Bike tour Amsterdam – See all in 3 unforgettable hours
from $34
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3-Hour Porto Highlights on a Electric Bike Guided Tour
from $53
4
Small Group Guided Bike Tour of Amsterdam’s Hidden Gems
from $40
5
3-hour Complete Prague Bike Tour
from $47
6
Temples, Canals & Local Life Bike Tour
from $24
7
Hills, Alfama, and Mouraria Tour by Electric Bike
from $25
8
Athens Scenic Electric Bike Tour with optional Acropolis visit
from $35
What an afternoon on two wheels actually costs.
Every ride on the site, grouped by price. A surprising number of the best ones come in under the cost of a taxi to the airport.
Rentals by the hour, three-hour city loops and the market rides that end in lunch you pay for yourself.
The full mornings: guided e-bike days, coastal runs, vineyard loops and anything with a boat in the middle.
Private guides, multi-day traverses and the once-a-trip ride the whole week gets planned around.
How far, how hilly, and whether you want a motor.
Most guided rides are three hours and fifteen flat kilometres, which almost anyone can do. The numbers that change that are elevation and surface: a hill city, a gravel section or a full day out doubles the effort even though the distance barely moves. Helmets come with the bike nearly everywhere and are compulsory in Australia and New Zealand. Northern Europe rides April to October; Southeast Asia rides at dawn.
Three rides where the bicycle is just the transport.
A bike covers five times the ground of a walking tour and stops anywhere a car cannot. Some of the best days out use that to reach a cellar, a market stall or a temple gate rather than to cover distance.
The vineyard ride
Wine country is built at exactly bike scale: the estates sit five or six kilometres apart on quiet farm roads, which is a miserable drive and a perfect ride. Tuscany, the Douro, Mendoza and the Cape all run the same shape of day — three or four cellars, a long lunch, a van that takes the cases home. The one thing worth checking is who drives you back.
- 1Tuscany Bike Tours Through the Chianti Hills with Wine Tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,300 reviews
- 2Rome by Night – Ebike Small Group Tour – Food and Wine (Option)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,275 reviews
- 3Rome by Night: E-bike Small Group Tour -Food & Wine (Option)★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,233 reviews
The market ride
Market rides start early because markets do. You cover four or five stops a walking tour could never reach in the time, eat standing up at each one, and end somewhere with chairs. Madrid, Valencia, Bangkok and Hanoi all run a version of it. Turn up genuinely hungry; the guide is not exaggerating.
- 1Versailles Palace Bike Tour with Market & Marie-Antoinette hamlet★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,680 reviews
- 23 h. Guided Highlights Bike Tour with Optional Tapas★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,623 reviews
- 3Appian Way & Aqueducts E-Bike Tour (Catacombs & Food)★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,498 reviews
The heritage ride
Ancient road networks make superb cycling for one accidental reason: they were built for feet and carts, so they are narrow, mostly flat and closed to traffic. The Appian Way outside Rome, the temple roads around Ayutthaya, the lanes behind Kyoto. You get the archaeology and an empty surface at the same time.
- 1Temples, Canals & Local Life Bike Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 3,511 reviews
- 2Historical Singapore Bike Tour on Full-Sized Bicycles★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,421 reviews
- 32.5-Hour Bike or E-Bike Historical Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,262 reviews
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