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!

Enjoying a rest during a family cycle ride at Rainham Marshes RSPB nature reserve

Family cycling at RSPB Rainham Marshes

With great facilities and all ability trails, RSPB Rainham Marshes nature reserve in Purfleet, South Essex provides the perfect setting for a family cycling adventure.  You can explore along the river wall, taking in views over the Thames down to London and across the nature reserve. If you look carefully you may see marsh harriers soaring overhead! The popular…

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Watching the Tour de France

What’s it like going on a Tour de France family holiday?

Mum of two Liz tells us all about here Tour de France family holiday in France

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family cycle routes in Cheshire and Wirral - Chester to Connahs Quay is a great, traffic free route

The best family cycle routes in Cheshire and Wirral

A selection of family friendly routes within the Cheshire and Wirral region

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Family bike rides in Southport Merseyside

Family bike rides in Merseyside and Wirral

Great ideas of where to go cycling with the family on Merseyside and Wirral in our guide to traffic free cycling

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Family bike ride at Manchester Airport, cycle past the planes

Family friendly cycle routes in Greater Manchester

The Manchester area has some great traffic free routes for family cycling – here is a selection of the best

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A selection of the kids bikes available to rent at the Macbikes store on Overtoom, Amsterdam, close to Vondelpark

How to hire a kids bike in Amsterdam

A trip to Amsterdam is not complete without a bike ride and for adults there is no shortage of places to turn up, hire a bike and ride away. However, if you’re wanting to hire a kids bike in Amsterdam you need to be slightly more organised. As you’d expect from Amsterdam, it’s possible to rent kids bikes, cargo…

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