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Cycling holidays

  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special 2025
    My post-cancer joy ride in the Yorkshire Dales

    In celebration of a clean bill of health, novelist Ben Markovits set out to tackle one of the toughest routes with his son

  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Travel
    The Haute Route by e-bike

    A young Swiss company is offering the chance to tackle the Alps’ most famous ski touring route — the high traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt — on electrically assisted mountain bikes

    Four cyclists ride on a mountain pass, with snow-covered peaks behind them
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Vancouver getaway: a weekend of wine-tasting by e-bike 

    A two-wheeled tour around British Columbia’s scenic and storied main wine region — on machines that make short work of its hills  

    Aerial view of a British Columbia vineyard with rows of vines bisected by a path with two cyclists, the blue waters of Okanagan Lake and distant mountains
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Travel
    An e-bike adventure through Armenia

    A trailblazing new tour takes cyclists to remote villages and ancient monasteries in the country’s spectacular highlands

    Three pictures show a butterfly on a flower, a cyclist looking over a valley, and an ancient monastery seen from above
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Travel
    In Mark Cavendish’s tyre tracks on the island of champions

    The little island in the Irish Sea has become a breeding ground for cycling champions — including the newly crowned greatest sprinter of all time

    A front-on view of two cyclists in full sports cycling gear riding along a narrow hilltop country lane across moorland, with a drystone wall to their left
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    How To Spend It In...
    Cyclist David Millar’s guide to Girona

    The former road racer came to Catalonia for his job – and stayed for the coffee, trail runs and restaurants

    David Millar by La Porta dels Apòstols in Girona
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Easy rider: exploring central Switzerland by e-bike from Zürich

    Make short work of some serious climbs on a route that takes in lakeside villages and Alpine passes

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Travel
    Riding the Tour de France — in Italy

    For the first time, cycling’s biggest race will start in Italy, and the route is ideal for amateurs to follow too

    A man in red top, bike helmet and sunglasses cycles between shoppers and yellow-stone buildings
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    HTSISix all-action adventure holidays for 2025
    Slow Cycling in South Africa

    The cult adventure outfit has taken their easy-riding ethos to the Western Cape

    The author takes a break in Rolbaken nature reserve
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Travel
    Extreme cycling: four days across a frozen lake in Mongolia

    The Mongol 100 is part of a growing series of events promising ‘extraordinary adventures for regular folks’

  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    HTSI
    Six of the best carbon road bikes

    From smooth riders to superbikes

    BMC Teammachine SLR MPC
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The BIG picture: a cycling tour of Copenhagen’s most trailblazing 21st-century buildings

    A two-wheeled exploration of the radical imprint of starchitect Bjarke Ingels and his global BIG studio on his hometown, from harbourside baths to a ski-slope power plant

    The ziggurat-style 8Tallet apartment buildings, on the edge of a lake in Copenhagen
  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    FT SeriesSix trips to feed the soul
    Pedalling to inner peace in Patagonia

    Yogis brag about finding answers to life’s transcendental questions on their mats. Others find them in the saddle

    Flavio Valabrega in front of Cerro Castillo
  • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Five stunning cycling routes around Zürich

    These two-wheeled adventures into the Swiss heartland skirt lakes, cross mountain passes and take in hamlets and fairytale castles

    An aerial view of Schloss Kyburg – a Swiss castle with a hamlet in front of it and miles of forest around it
  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    Travel
    Hidden Himalayas: hiking the new Trans-Bhutan Trail

    Bhutan is finally reopening its borders this weekend — and launching a 400km footpath across the country

    A man standing on a rocky promontory overlooking a lake
  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Travel
    With a bike, you can conquer countries and continents

    Two-wheeled odysseys may feel daunting — but just a few hours in the saddle can take you from one world to another

    Tim Moore and his bike beneath a statue in Seville
  • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
    HTSI
    Destination Norway for a stunning cycling holiday

    A six-day, five-star tour around Norway’s Sunnmøre Alps serves up fairytale scenery, flawless roads and near-total absence of traffic

    The author climbs towards Nysætervatnet
  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Five of the world’s best bikepacking adventures

    The editor-in-chief of the Bikepacking Journal picks great routes — from the Scottish hills to the wilds of New Mexico

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Travel
    A new bikepacking adventure — on London’s doorstep

    The Cantii Way takes riders on a four-day loop through the byways of rural Kent

    An off-road track through King’s Wood, en route to Canterbury
  • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
    FT Series
    Wellbeing and fitness: the cool guide to winter cycling

    The best new wheels, city rides and far-flung trips to keep you rolling through the frosty months

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: where to run, cycle, swim — and more — in London
    Women’s cycling in London: the best routes and groups

    One FT writer’s journey from two-wheeled commuter to ‘Lycra-clad obsessive’

    Siona Jenkins
  • Sunday, 12 September, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: skiing, cycling and running in Tokyo
    Local heroes: three of inner Tokyo’s most rewarding bike routes

    In this vast metropolis, exploring the capital’s neighbourhoods on short cycle rides is a great way to get to know the lie of the land

  • Monday, 6 September, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: where to run, cycle, swim — and more — in London
    Two wheels good: four of London’s most bike-friendly routes

    A steadily expanding network of protected lanes means that cyclists can explore the capital virtually unbothered by drivers — on routes that zip through 1,000 years of history

  • Monday, 6 September, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: an exercise guide to NYC
    Fast exit to Brooklyn: four bike routes around the New York borough

    The best way to take in all that Brooklyn has to offer — from spectacular cityscapes to hipster havens — is on two wheels

  • Tuesday, 24 August, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: where to run, cycle, swim — and more — in London
    Power to the pedal: the galvanising effects of experiencing London by e-bike

    How going electric brought new energy to the way the FT’s CEO — formerly an e-bike sceptic — navigates the UK capital

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