Category: Loire Valley Cycling Holidays

Our Loire cycling holiday 2025 season is over and what a great season it was! Our busiest cycling season ever with the season running from mid April until mid October. We hosted guests from all over the world with guests and welcomed back many previous guests. The new route to Saumur was a highlight –… Continue reading Loire Cycling Holidays 2025 – Another great season!

Loire Life Cycling is the combination of a dream to live in France and the desire to create a business that fitted with that dream. We moved permanently to France in 2007, drawn to the Loire Valley by the promise of space, warmth, countryside and rich history. It was a chance to spend time enjoying… Continue reading Loire Life Cycling – Our Story

Expanding on our post ‘Cycling Laws in France‘ we’ve brought together the most important French road signs for cyclists. Knowing these signs, together with understanding the cycling rules in France will ensure you have a fun and trouble free time riding in this cycling paradise! Are bikes allowed? Cycle lane signs One way streets Town… Continue reading French road signs for cyclists

Grab yourself a souvenir of your cycling holiday with our Loire Life Cycling jersey! The jersey is a unique design produced in partnership with a European manufacturer and is available in all sizes when you are here. We’ve incorporated our new wheel logo and kept to a very French colour scheme.  The jersey has a… Continue reading Loire Valley Cycling Jerseys!

Wacthing the Tour de France live is completely free!  It is the most prestigious and watched cycling race in the world and running our cycling holidays in France, we have inevitably caught the bug for watching it.  But starting as complete novices, there were some interesting things we found out when it comes to actually… Continue reading Watching the Tour de France – 5 top tips!

Road bike hire is available on any of our Loire Valley cycle tours. Road bikes are a upgrade option and availability is limited. So, it will be early bookers that have more of a chance of grabbing one! Orbea Avant The Orbea Avant has carbon forks, a Shimano Tiagra group-set and rides on Kenda Kriterium 700×25… Continue reading Road Bike Hire – Loire Valley Bike Tours

Cycling holidays for beginners can be hard to find. If you’re looking for your first cycling holiday perhaps you’re nervous about cycling with others and keeping up. Don’t be worried, we have the solution. We can give you lots of great reasons why you should join us on our Loire Valley Discovery Cycling Holiday here… Continue reading Cycling Holidays for beginners – Don’t be nervous!

Gravel biking is massive and if you know where to look, there is some amazing gravel cycling in France.Mention gravel cycling in Europe and most people will talk about cycling the strada bianche. These are the white roads of the Crete Senesi region of Italy. Trouble is, you get there and everyone else is there… Continue reading Gravel Cycling in France

It may only be January, but the weather today was fantastic – 16c and sunny, so we couldn’t pass up the chance to get in some early Loire Valley cycling. Cycling to Fontevraud Abbey We decided to try something new, so drove down to Montsoreau right on the Loire river and then headed inland to… Continue reading Cycling Holidays France – Montsoreau to Fontevraud Cycle Ride

Loire a Velo – a great French idea, amazingly executed! Loire a Velo is a marked cycle-way that runs 800kms from Cuffy in France (not far from Nevers) to Saint-Brevin-les-Pins on the french Atlantic coast, just to the west of Nantes.  The cycle route is the first part of a much bigger European cycling project… Continue reading Loire a Velo – What is it?

So how do out guests enjoy their cycle breaks in the Loire Valley?  Here is the experience of some guests who headed to us in April and found the sun and warm temperatures to greet them! From Ottowa, Canada, the guests hired a car from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and spent four nights with… Continue reading Cycle breaks in the Loire Valley

Cycling to Beautiful Langeais We have a route on our Discovery Tour and Loire Cycling Breaks that visits Langeais – a medieval town with a fortress that has guarded the Loire for centuries. We spent a lazy Sunday morning in Langeais and to be honest, I’d forgotten how beautiful it is.  The outdoor market was… Continue reading Loire Bike Route – Langeais

Bourgueil Bike Bonus! Headed out for a spin to Bourgueil this morning and ended up discovering a nice way back to our Discovery Tour centre at Gue de Ray, which avoids the only big hill on the entire week’s biking.  Hoorah!  We have done it before but weren’t impressed – but things change and this… Continue reading One less Loire Valley hill to bike up!

The amazing March weather in France continues so we took a quick cycle ride around one of our favourite local cycle routes – a circular route cycling to Lac de Rille with its nature reserve. Its’s a really rural route, just small hamlets, apple orchards, pine forests and farms.  We covered just under 3okms with… Continue reading Cycling to Lac de Rille

If you like this article and fancy cycling in the Loire Valley then check out our fantastic self guided cycling holidays in France. The Loire a vélo is the official marked cycle way which follows the entire length of the river Loire.  Some people have the time to cycle the entire route, but more likely… Continue reading Cycling Holidays France – Saumur by Bike