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A wide range of tour options are available for cycling vacations throughout Europe. In many cases, you can ride the same roads and even tackle the toughest climbs the peloton faces in races in France, Italy, or Spain. More information on Loire Valley cycling tours is available here.
Here are a few cycling tour operators offering tours covering professional cycling terrain.
Ciclismo Classico
Ciclismo Classico offers a wide variety of cycling tours in Italy and throughout Europe as well as in the U.S. Tours are designed for different cycling levels: Beginner, Athletic Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Outside Magazine picked Ciclismo Classico's Bike Across Southern Italy as Best Tour of Western Europe for 2004. Other tours include Giro d'Italia and Tour de France offerings plus numerous other italian cycling adventures in Tuscay, Sardinia, the Dolomites and more. Read More
Cinghiale Cycling Tours
Cinghiale offers you the best views of Tuscany from your own bike. The company is founded by Andy Hampsten, the first and only American cyclist to win the Giro d'Italia in 1988. Hampsten rides every mile of every tour. Their goal is for you to stay fit, have fun, meet the people and savor the cuisine. Riders find our tours an excellent opportunity to not only improve their riding skills, but to hone their Italian taste buds. Read More
Cyclomundo Vacations
France’s Cyclomundo specializes in custom cycling tours based on clients’ interests, budgets and skills level. Leisure riders, for example, can design a tour that averages 40 miles per day over terrain through Provence’s pastoral countryside while staying in quaint, family-owned inns. Whereas gung ho types can blueprint a tour that averages 80 miles per day pedaling some of the Tour de France’s epic climbs in the Alps while lodging in four-star hotels. Options are endless. Read More
Discover France Tours
Discover France offers cycling tours covering the Tour de France as well as many other destinations. Tour de France options include the Pyrenees, Alps, Brussels and everything in between. Tours are available for both accomplished and leisure cyclists. They have also recently added a Tour du Languedoc tour for May. Discover France also options for cycling tours in Alsace, Brittany, Burgundy, Loire Valley, Champagne, Dordogne, Languedoc Roussillon, Normandy, Cognac/Poitou, Provence and Rhone/Alps. Read More
Duvine Adventures
Duvine offers deluxe Tour de France escapes which combine a fun, bon-vivant atmosphere with the pleasures of staying in luxury accommodations, eating gourmet cuisine, tasting world-class wines, and of course, following the greatest bike race on earth in the DuVine style. They offer several Tour de France cycling tour options including the Loire Valley, Normandy, the Pyrenees, Alp d'Huez, Burgundy and Paris. Duvine also offers tours to Provence, Burgundy, the Loire and Bordeaux throughout the spring, summer and fall. Read More
Espana Cycling
Espana Cycling Vacations offers cycling tours for the avid cyclist. Based in Girona Spain, but with American roots, they offer 8 day cycling vacations between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean Sea. Rides average around 50 miles a day. Accommodations are in a restored traditional Spanish country home, the Masia.The terrain offers plenty of rolling hills with some long climbs. Girona is where many of the top pro's live and train, so it may not be a surprise to see Lance, George Hincapie, or Michael Barry on any given ride (no guarantees though!). Read More
GreatCycling.com
GreatCycling.com rides are in areas such as the site of the 2002 World Duathlon Championships and made famous by the former World Road Racing Cycling Champion, Maurizio Fondriest, and 1998 Tour de France winner, Marco Pantani. They offer choices of over 20 rides based out of a hotel in Riccione, Italy. The rides are geared for riders of all levels, from leisure to triathlete. The packages are fully inclusive with many extras, yet comparatively value priced. Read More
La Corsa Tours
La Corsa tours are specifically designed for avid cyclists. The routes feature more miles than most other companies and their clients are athletic, recreational club riders who ride on a regular basis at home. Some may be racers or triathletes and enjoy longer-distance, more challenging rides. La Corsa rides average between 50 and 60 daily miles, depending on the tour, terrain and time of year. Some tours, like Famous Passes of the Dolomites, offer serious climbing on rides of 40 to 50 miles. Others, like the Italian Giro, are moderately hilly but have 70 to 80 mile rides. Read More
Marty Jemison Cycling Tours
As a veteran of the US Postal Service Team, Jemison will take you to the places/routes where cyclists train, coffee shops the Pros frequent, and immerse you in "La Monde de Courer." Cycling tours include several options for the Tour de France, the Spring Classics including Gent Wevelgem and Paris Roubaix and their signature offering around Girona, Spain. Read More
Steve Bauer Bike Tours
Steve Bauer offers leisure and performance cycling tours in central America, Europe and Canada. Performance trips include itineraries covering the Giro d'Italia and the Alps and Pyrenees of the Tour de France. Other tours cover the 2004 World Cycling Championships in Verona as well as Provence and Tuscany. Read More
Velo Classic Tours
Velo Classic tours offer historic tours through great cycling areas of Europe. Tours include a Spring Classics tour covering Belgium, Italian tours covering Tuscany, the French Alps and Tour de France and the Basque country of Spain. All tours combine serious cycling with opportunities to enjoy local culture. Read More
Velo Echappe
Velo Echappe offers Pyrenees and Alps cycling tours based on the Tour de France as well as Italian cycling tours. Tour de France rides follow challenging Tour routes from both the past and present. Riders enjoy full sag and mechanical support, luxury accommodations, lively group dinners and a professional international staff. Their Tuscany/Umbria Villa Vacation consists of staying in Cortona for an entire week with daily options of cycling between 35-65 miles with full sag support, maps, and cue sheets. They also offer a cycling vacation through the Texas Hill Country to benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Peloton Project. Read More
VéloSport Vacations
When you follow the Tour de France with VéloSport Vacations, you regularly ride portions of the race courses, with daily options on distance and difficulty. Riders preview all of the ride routes to find the best roads and most memorable scenery. In the mountains, the riding is quite challenging and covers many of the most well-known and difficult climbs. VéloSport Vacations offers a "Classic Climbs" tour through the Pyrenees as well as a Tour de France package. Frankie Andreu and Kevin Livingston, both former top American cycling professionals, will share their expertise (and great cycling anecdotes) on select tours in the Caribbean. Read More
