Backroads Bicycle Tours was one of the first to offer these (30 years in business), and in my opinion is the leader. I know many people who have taken their trips, and heard nothing but rave reviews. (Full disclosure: the founder is an acquaintance.) I have never heard of Sojourn, so I guess if I was going to try a bicycle vacation I would start with the proven leader unless there was a compelling reason to try a less-known company. Is there?

hmm. he posted this with the single group also.

And they (Backroads) have the most beautiful brochures Robin. Friends have done the CA wine country tours with them in the past and had a great time.

Have seen their vans in the San Juan Islands and Grand Tetons. Everything looks so well organized. Was pouring in Jackson, WY when we stopped at a wildlife museum and Backroads was there with their bicycle guests. They were setting up the most wonderful lunch and despite the pouring rain, everyone looked like they were having a wonderful time.

Their Tuscany cooking lesson/wine tasting hiking tour is on my wish list.

Thanks for the website. My husband is a cyclist, and I'm always trying to get us to go on active vacations. This seems like a perfect fit. I've requested their brochure.

Thanks again!

Paula

I'm going to check out this website. I get email from some other places, Great Outdoors is one I think, and I've looked at a bicycle tour vacation and also a hiking tour vacation of the Grand Canyon, which I would love to do. So many choices!

I want to do the multi-day river rafting tour at the Grand Canyon.

One of my favorite hikes at the Grand Canyon is to Plateau Point. I'm much faster going straight up the canyon then going down. Something to do with all that fresh mule poop I wanted to avoid.

Oh indeed, there are MANY different wonderful options out there for bicycle tours. And while I have not traveled with Backroads before, I am sure they are great. Most of the bike tours that I have done were with other equally large and well-known companies, with whom I was not completely satisfied. I guess I felt that they had cookie-cutter itineraries, i.e. not very flexible. Maybe that was why I liked the company Sojourn, because it is small and personable, and it just felt more "friendly." Its hard to describe really.