Fully Escorted
Cycling Holidays & Bike Tours
through France & Italy with
Gourmet Food and Wine
+44(0)1392 66 22 62
Find Out More About Our Cycling Holidays
Chain Gang Bikes
The Chain Gang provides either hybrid bikes or road bikes for our cycling holidays.
We don't have any mountain bikes in our fleet as we don't go anywhere that's rough enough to need one, and for cycling on roads they're frankly too much like hard work.
We're Good
Every area we've chosen is fascinating in its own right - whether for the scenery of Provence and the Dordogne, the chateaux of the Loire Valley, or the hill towns and renaissance architecture of Tuscany and Umbria.
On our tours we aim to explore everything that's best about a region, and to provide the most interesting itinerary of any cycling holiday company.
Gourmet Food
One of your tour guide’s most important jobs is to make sure that the wherever we are, the chef in the restaurant ot the hotel, caters to your needs.
This means, you receive the best in regional traditions, but also the best of what's freshly prepared and available on the day.
What's Included
Early in 2008 we held a competition. Readers of our newsletter were asked to write about their experiences whilst on a Chain Gang Cycling Holiday. Please take the time to read each one - we didn't just pick those that praised us! Oh no!
France Overview
France is a delightful place to experience one of our cycling holidays. Other road users are very respectful toward cyclists, and it must be one of the few places in the world where a cyclist gets more attention at a hotel or a vineyard than the coach that follows up the driveway. It's a great feeling to be King of the Road, and a rare treat for us cyclists.
Italy Overview
Tuscany and Umbria combine everything that's fascinating about Italy. Etruscan and Roman history, the Renaissance, wonderful architecture, and surely some of the most amazing and beautiful cathedrals in the world.
Customer Memoirs
We recently held a competition where readers of our Monthly Newsletter were asked to write about their experiences whilst on a Chain Gang Cycling Holiday. The best were chosen, and the following five people were awarded the prize of copy of the famous Guide Hachette. Please take the time to read each one - we didn't just pick those that praised us! Oh no!