Adventure Cycling Association

The tours program creates unique educational experiences for bike travel and helps participants learn skills related to bike travel, camping, wilderness, team-building, and leadership. The goal of these tours is to educate and provide people with the knowledge and skills to travel by bike so they have the confidence to do it on their own as well. This includes bicycle expedition educational tours, bicycle tour leader education development in the leadership training courses; and the tour leader mentoring program.

Adventure cycling produces a full-color magazine (adventure cyclist) and other materials designed to inform the members of the organization and the public about bicycle travel and inspire them to ride. Our communications department also produces a website with free information for cyclists of all backgrounds including a library of how-to guides. Sharing stories, educational resources, and inspiration makes bike travel possible for more people.

The merchandise program offers our bike touring maps and branded merchandise. We also produce educational referece guides to assist in preparation for trips. This program breaks down the barrier to entry to the activity of bike travel. We also offer free advice to any caller or in-office visitor to help them plan their own person bicycle trips.

Membership: the membership program works with cyclists of all backgrounds to build a greater community of bicyclists in america. Membership promotes cycling by inspiring more people to travel by bicycle. This is done through membership solicitation, special events, publication creation, outreach to libraries, state bicycle coordinators, bicycle clubs, and bicycle shops. The organization has over 23,000 members. Membership builds community.