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!

Cheering on the Tour de France

Guide to taking kids to watch the Tour de France

Going to see the Tour de France with the kids? Here is our guide to keeping them happy and safe

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Forest of Dean family cycle trail

Dad of 3 Charlie takes his eldest two cycling in the Forest of Dean

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Family cycling holiday to Colonsay

Scottish Island Hopping – a family cycling holiday

Kathryn took the kids and grandparents on a family cycling adventure to the Scottish Islands

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Kathryn and Liz cycling in Holland with families

Cake, castles and contractions on our Dutch family cycling holiday

In the final blog about her family cycling holiday to Holland, Liz turns 40 and Ian impresses with Champagne!

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Using stations and trains in Holland on our family cycling holiday

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

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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