2025 Tour de France
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2024 Vuelta a España
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Gravel
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Trans Challenges
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2024 Vuelta a España
Witness American star Sepp Kuss defend his title as winner of the Vuelta a España!
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2025 Tour de France
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2025 Spring Classics
Real bike racing rough roads, questionable weather, frites and great beer, welcome to the Classics!
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Gravel Trips
Our Gravel trips open up a whole new range of exciting destinations, just waiting to be explored
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As passionate cyclists, the entire team plays a role in our unrivalled service. It’s in our nature to explore and our dream to provide the best possible cycling experience. We want you to enjoy that experience with us; to join our expert cyclists, to make yourself proud and to create everlasting memories. We believe that the most important part of any trip is the ride and constantly refine our routes to make sure they’re the best they can be. We go again and again until they are.
Forever searching for new roads, unfound cols and better vistas, we never tire of creating the greatest cycling experiences. Let’s Go Again.
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Ride Specialized with Thomson Bike Tours
Thursday February 29, 2024
We are elated to announce our new partnership with Specialized, a brand synonymous with quality and innovation, who will be providing rental bikes for our future trips. Our commitment to providing the best cycling experiences aligns seamlessly with Specialized's dedication to pushing the limits of what's possible in the world of cycling. Having Specialized bikes available for rent on all our future trips from April onwards is a game-changer. It adds a new dimension to the quality of road and gravel trips, and I am genuinely thrilled about the caliber of bikes that you will now have access to.
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From Rotterdam to Alpe d’Huez, from favourite to underdog and from superstars to fans. This was a Grand Tour for the ages; a spectacle of thrilling racing, unforgettable stories and pure emotion. The Tour de France Femmes is here to stay.
Read the storyThe Best Cycling Destinations for Race Culture
For cycling enthusiasts who thrive on the storytelling of racing and the allure of legendary routes, a cycling holiday to iconic destinations offers the ultimate adventure
Read the storyThe Best Cycling Destinations for Photo Opportunities
From the rugged trails of Scotland to the mystical allure of Morocco, from the verdant landscapes of Bali to the untamed wilderness of Iceland
Read the storyRide Specialized with Thomson Bike Tours
We are elated to announce our new partnership with Specialized, a brand synonymous with quality and innovation, who will be providing rental bikes for our future trips. Our commitment to providing the best cycling experiences aligns seamlessly with Specialized's dedication to pushing the limits of what's possible in the world of cycling. Having Specialized bikes available for rent on all our future trips from April onwards is a game-changer. It adds a new dimension to the quality of road and gravel trips, and I am genuinely thrilled about the caliber of bikes that you will now have access to.
Read the storyThe painted roads of cycling’s biggest events are as much a part of the fabric of the races as the peloton itself. Where did it come from and who started it?
Read the storyIt provokes questions like what is it? Why does it exist? Who is doing it and should I be doing it too? Well, we thought it was time to answer those questions, and who better to ask than the man behind dirt, gravel, trail classic, the Belgian Waffle Ride. Prepare to be entertained, introducing Michael Marckx.
Read the storyThe Philosophy of Trip Planning
With nearly a quarter of a century of planning and running cycling adventures on the Thomson Bike Tours palmares, it’s fair to say that I have developed a clear idea of what makes a trip successful. Whilst the process and the detail is a complex operation, the philosophy behind it is surprisingly simple. In this article I’d like to share the six key elements that make the perfect trip.
Read the storyThe Best Cycling Destinations for Weather
Whilst rugged pros revel in a battle against conditions to better their opponents and the weather, for many of us the real joy of cycling comes under azure blue skies and warm golden sunshine.
Read the storyCovering three countries and four mountain ranges, the 2024 edition of the Tour de France Femmes promises a race of epic proportions in the August sunshine.
Read the storyHailing from the Mornington Peninsula, just outside of Melbourne, Australia, Bizzy Butterworth is an experienced cyclist, coffee lover and winner of our TDF competition! With a place on our French Alps trip next summer to look forward to, we’d like to take the opportunity to introduce Bizzy and her cycling life from now until the big week.
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