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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!

Using stations and trains in Holland on our family cycling holiday

22/04/2013

Part 2 of Liz’s blog – tackling Dutch trains and stations with 4 kids, 8 bikes and 2 trailers!

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Family cycling holiday in Holland

Ferry exciting! Setting out on our family cycling holiday in Holland

13/04/2013

It’s holiday time! Liz is ready to set off with 4 kids, 8 bikes and 2 trailers to experience cycling the Dutch way

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Tarka Trail and Coast Path sign 1

Family cycle routes in Devon

07/04/2013

Our pick of the best family cycle routes in Devon – is yours included?

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Using a children's bike trailer on a family cycling holiday to Holland

Getting ready for a family cycling holiday to Holland

17/03/2013

Mum of two Liz is getting ready for a cycling holiday around Holland with her husband and two daughters. We catch up with her with just a couple of weeks to go….. It’s been a while since my last blog on our impending Dutch adventure.  There might have been silence on the website but there has…

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Mother and son on cycling holiday

Is a family cycling holiday to Holland a good idea?

22/02/2013

Over the last few months my husband, Ian, and I have been having discussions as to what to do for a certain significant birthday of mine this March.  My thoughts were that I definitely didn’t want a party but perhaps we could go away somewhere as a family (we have two girls, Emily, 7 and…

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Cycling on canal towpaths – a six year old’s view

24/01/2013

The ‘cycling on canal towpaths’ article has been written by our son, aged six, who is a keen cyclist and fan of getting out into the open air at any given opportunity. His interest in cycling extends to following Team Sky and British Cycling, and he is a bit of a fan of Mark Cavendish…

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