Where to ride

Family cycling – where to ride

If you’re looking for ideas on where to go on a family bike ride, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got lots of thoughts on where to cycle with kids of all ages, from short rides through to multi-day family bike packing trips.

Happy cycling!

komoot routes

Follow us on komoot and find some of our favorite family cycling routes.

You can download the routes and follow them straight from your phone, plan your own routes and see highlights other cyclists recommend!

If you have any favorite routes, please do share them with us in komoot to inspire other families.

Some great places to ride

Family cycling holidays

One of our very favourite things is going on a family cycling holiday – unfortunately life / school / work gets in the way most of the time!  If you’re thinking about cycling on your holidays, you don’t need to make it too complicated – a single day’s riding is how we started.

Over the years we’ve built up to doing trips of up to a month away – but we always drive or take the train somewhere and camp and then ride from the campsite.

Some of our Cycle Sprog contributors prefer to leave the car at home and carry all their kit with them – and thankfully they’ve written up their adventures to help anyone else who wants to do similar.

Enjoy your holiday!

Family cargo bike adventure from Bath to Chepstow

Thinking about a cargo bike holiday with kids? Here’s our tips from our multi-day cargo bike holiday with four kids on two cargo bikes.

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Family bike ride at Alwen Reservoir

Family bike rides in North Wales

North Wales has everything from short flat routes for budding balance bikers through to more challenge routes for young mountain bikers

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South Wales MTB holiday - Afan forest park

Our family mountain biking holiday in south Wales

Looking for family friendly mountain biking trails in South Wales? We had a family MTB adventures biking, camping with a bit of luxury too!

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family mountain bike ride on a sunny day

Benefits of hiring for your family cycling holiday

Family cycling holidays require a lot of equipment at great expense, we share the benefits of hiring for your family cycling holiday.

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Taking a cargo bike to Brittany on the ferry

Family holiday in Brittany by bike, train and ferry

How we took our longtail cargo bikes on holiday from England to Brittany, France, travelling by bike, train and ferry.

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Cornwall and Devon family cycle routes

Are you looking for fun cycle routes in Devon and Cornwall? Here are some of the best routes for a great family day out.

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