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ALL TOUR PACKETS AVAILABLE ONLY AS PDFs FOR E-SHIPPING.
When you purchase an Adventure Velo tour packet,
you are purchasing INFORMATION.
Each tour packet pdf contains the following...
1. Detailed, attractive, easy-to-read maps for each daily stage
2. Accurate route slips for each stage
3. Elevation profiles for each stage
4. A Details section, containing all the logistical information you will need to set up your own tour, including phone numbers, addresses, prices, and so forth for your overnights
5. Extensive day-by-day descriptions of the routes, with commentary on the passing scenery, terrain, road conditions, points of interest, and other matters relevant to cycle-touring. One-week Tour “books” vary between 30 and 50 pages, depending on the length of each tour. They average slightly more than one color photo per page.
In other words, each tour packet contains everything you need to know to stage and ride your own tour. All you have to do is make your reservations and ride...and you will ride comfortably, secure in the knowledge that all your roads and all your overnight stays will have been thoroughly surveyed by folks who understand and enjoy cycle-touring.
For samples of the maps and other support material, click the
SAMPLES button.
You can read more about each of our one-week cycle-tours by clicking
on their names above, but before you do that, here is a brief
summary of a “typical” Adventure Velo One-Week Tour..
A typical tour contains six or seven riding stages.
A typical stage will be 60-65 miles, with perhaps 3000' to 4000'
of climbing.
Some tours–but not all–have longer and shorter options most days.
In the interest of keeping touring costs low, these tours have
been laid out using camping facilities for the overnights. Some
of the routes–but not all–can by modified to make use of motels
and inns for overnight accommodations.
These tours were originally designed to be ridden with the support of one or more sag wagons to carry luggage and handle people-hauling at the start and finish.This means that they are not all ideally suited to be ridden unsupported: some of the starts and finishes are far apart and are at remote sites...beautiful places to ride, but nowhere near connections to mass transit. The exceptions are the loop routes, where cars can be left at the start/finish for retrieval after the tour.
If these point-to-point, camping-based tours don’t work for you,
consider our MINI TOURS. Each Mini-Tour is based in a single town and makes use of the local inns and motels. All the stages loop out from one hub in or near the town. Mini-Tours are three or four days, making them ideal for a long weekend getaway.
Adventure Velo One-Week Tours are not beginner tours, but are not aimed at hardened hammerheads either. They are designed for people who like to ride, who have some cycling experience and decent fitness, and who don’t mind a little climbing challenge. They aren’t intended to be death marches, but are long enough and challenging enough to guarantee that getting there is at least half the fun, or at any rate takes at least half the day.
Our rule of thumb is this:
If you have completed an average century comfortably, you can
handle a week’s worth of the longer routes.
If you have completed a 100K easily, you can handle a week’s worth
of the shorter routes.
For more background on the criteria we use in choosing our routes,
see HOW WE CREATE OUR TOURS.
Adventure Velo
7315 Fircrest Avenue
Sebastopol, CA 95472
707-823-9807
backroad@sonic.net
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