Cycling Routes & Tours on the WW1 Battlefields

Cycling at Ploegsteert Memorial, Ypres Salient.

A popular way to visit the battlefields is to do it by bicycle. Guides and maps for recommended cycling routes are available from publishers or from tourist offices. Guides and battlefield tour companies listed here also offer a variety of tours by bike to suit all abilities.

Cycling Routes for WW1 Sites in Flanders
Cycling Tours of the Battlefields

Cycling Routes for WW1 in Flanders

fietsroute.org

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.fietsroute.org

Fietsroute.org is a popular website offering cycling trail routes in Belgium. For the Great War centenary a special page has been created for cycling trails in the Westhoek area covering Ypres (Ieper) and the surrounding area including the battlefields of the Yser and the Ypres Salient. The routes vary in distance and an itinerary of the key locations you will cycle to is provided for each route. The information is available in English on the website, and has links to purchase cycling maps of Flanders online from Stanfords, the well-known map stockist.

Visit the website for further information:

Website: www.fietsroute.org WW1 Cycle Routes

Cycling Tours of the Battlefields

Biking Box Cycletours

2014-18 Remembrance Partner Flanders Fields

Telephone: +32 477 592 382

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.bikingbox.be

Guided tours visiting the Great War Western Front battlefields by bike for a half day, a full day or over several days. Probably the best way to witness the landscape and try to understand what happened one century ago. With Biking Box Cycletours you can also develop your complete bike-holiday for 3, 4, 5 or even more days as a guided tour or self-guided tour (all logistics are included).

Rent a bike: A large choice of bikes to rent in classic tour bicycles (21 gears), E-bikes, kids bikes, kidscar and also some road bicycles. Suggestion: ask for a rental GPS (Garmin) including booklet with information about the sites you are visiting.
Groups & Teambuilding: For groups and companies Biking Box Cycletours offer customized programs, where work & fun go together… Inspiring and rich in oxygen!
The ‘Great Picknick’: A unique formula if you choose to taste local products of Flanders during a guided tour.
Meeting point in Ypres: Newspaper & souvenir shop ‘t IEPERTJE, Menenstraat 12, located between the historic market square & the Menin Gate Memorial.

Your guide Kurt Titeca grew up Hill 60 close to Ypres where he went to college. Hill 60 was where three generations of his ancestors have lived. At the beginning of the 20th Century the family became refugees during the Great War, only returning from France after the Armistice. Stories of the two World Wars surrounded his whole youth. It led to a life on a bicycle (active sporting, then a cycling journalist, later also creating his own biking events, now developing historic guided tours). It fed also his hunger to understand history (he has a Masters in Political & Social Sciences). There is no doubt that you will be in good hands!

For bookings, reservations, rental tariffs and any enquiries contact Kurt by email:

Email: [email protected]

Biking Box Cycletours is the business name of APP-Tours Ltd.(Active People Performing); VAT: BE 0890759908

Cycling the Western Front

Riding Routes of the Great War Bike Guide

Somme Battlefields Partner

Telephone: (Belgium) + 32 (0)4 75 81 06 08; (France) +33 (0)7 88 24 59 01

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.cyclingthewesternfront.co.uk

Qualified guide Carl Ooghe established his battlefield tour company in 1987. He specializes in tours to the battlefields of Flanders, The Somme, The Aisne, The Marne and Meuse-Argonne.

Carl publishes cycling guide books in Dutch, French and English. A range of cycling tours is available:

self-guided tours
single day tours
multi-day tours with overnight accommodation
tailor-made tours
ANZAC tours
Bike & Barge cycling tours
Mixed terrain sport cycling battlefield tours

For prices, arranging a bespoke tour to visit places of special interest to you, assistance and arrangements for travel to main rail destination stations in Belgium and France, visit Carl's website:

Website: www.cyclingthewesternfront.co.uk

Carl also offers guided tours by minibus for up to 7 people. See Carl's tours The Western Front Revisited on our page:

WW1 Battlefield Tour Companies and Guides Starting in Belgium & France: The Western Front Revisited Tours

Green Jersey French Cycling Tours

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial, Beaumont Hamel, France.

Member of the Travel Trust Association No. Q0937

Telephone: +44 (0)1300 350555

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

Green Jersey French Cycling Tours is a highly experienced, specialist tour company offering a wide variety of cycling tours in France and Belgium. The company is based in the United Kingdom but all tours start and end in France or Belgium.

Regularly using some of the best guides in the business, such as Andy Robertshaw, riders gain a real insight into the events of a century ago.

We offer various tours of the Western Front and for 2017 will be adding a new tour concentrating on Passchendaele and the Ypres Salient. We have also added the unforgettable Verdun battlefields to our itineraries both as a 3 day centre based tour, and as a ‘Verdun and the Somme’ tour looking at the two battles together.

Groups and requests for bespoke tours are welcome as well as charity rides; the company has recently organized rides for ABF The Army Benevolent Fund and the Rifles as well as many small private groups.

Our popular WW1 ‘Flanders and the Somme’ tour starts and ends in Lille. It includes 6 nights’ half board, transport of luggage, full back-up support at all times and experienced guides. For more detail of the daily itineraries, dates for this tour and information about getting to Lille visit the website page at:

Website: www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk Great War Battlefields Tour

Cycling & Walking Route Maps

For recommended maps for cycling and walking on the Western Front battlefields, see our page:

Maps for Travel to the WW1 Battlefields

Cycling Routes & Tours on the WW1 Battlefields

Cycling Routes for WW1 in Flanders

fietsroute.org

Cycling Tours of the Battlefields

Biking Box Cycletours

Cycling the Western Front

Green Jersey French Cycling Tours

Further Reading

Riding the Routes of the Great War: In Northern France & Belgium, Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Aisne (Paperback)

Cycling & Walking Route Maps

Related Topics

Visiting the WW1 Western Front Battlefields

Battlefields of the Western Front

International Guild of Battlefield Guides

Battlefield Tours

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