The COP bike ride

29/09/2026

Bike Ride - Paris 🇫🇷
July 30 - August 1st 2026

Every year, the ride through Paris is always a highlight and a symbolic moment of the COP Bike Ride: After all, it was in Paris that it all began : where our international citizen-led initiative was conceived. And from where, symbolically as the site of the 2015 Climate Agreement, that the first COP Bike Ride set off on June 15, 2024, heading for Baku, the site of COP29!

This year, we enjoyed an exceptional program on July 30, including the signing of the Paris City Hall’s letter of commitment!! 🤩

✅ The peloton of cyclists arrived in Paris from London-Susa branch and met the Paris-based cyclists on Place de la Concorde for a public gathering💪🥳!

✅ A bike ride started on Rue de Rivoli, accompanied by Dan Lert, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of transportation, mobility—Pedestrian Plan, Bicycle Plan. 🚴‍♀️🚴

✅ We had a warm welcome in Paris City Hall: Dan Lert signed the commitment letter ✍️ and made an official presentation of the letter outlining the City of Paris’s commitments regarding cycling policy through 2030. This letter is addressed to the COP Presidency and stakeholders to encourage them to make a stronger commitment to cycling.

✅ We celebrated this major achievement in an evening event at the Académie du Climat: Meet-and-greet with participants, screening of the film “Ensemble,” 🎥chronicling the 2025 bike ride and the origins of this citizen-led initiative, and last but not least a group jazz jam open to all, featuring a drum set transported from London by one of the cyclists on their way to the COP! 🎶🥳

The relay’s departure from Paris to COP31 took place in the morning on August 1, in front of the City Hall. Target: convergence in Susa with the COP to COP branch ! 🚴‍♀️🚴

Dan Lert fub CycloTransEurope Mieux se déplacer à bicyclette Académie du Climat Paris en Selle

27/09/2026

COP31 Bike Ride - London 🇬🇧 to Paris 🇫🇷
July 2026

🚴‍♀️🌍 What if the answer to the climate crisis is something most of us already own?

In July, we cycled 400+ kms from London to Paris for COP31 proving that everyday cycling can be a powerful part of the climate solution.

7 days. 35+ riders. Teenagers, veterans, councillors, first-timers, drummers, all of us convinced that if cycling were safe and normal everywhere, our streets, our air, and our future would look completely different.

We climbed Ditchling Beacon and carried bikes up 150+ steps at Jacob’s Ladder. We turned an 8-hour ferry delay into a spontaneous festival instead of a delay. We rode 36km through the night under a full moon when plans fell apart.

Every setback was a reminder: the solutions to climate change won’t always be smooth, but they’re worth pedaling toward anyway.
While wildfires burned across Europe this summer, our small peloton carried a simple message that cycling infrastructure is climate infrastructure. Along the way, mayors and councillors signed commitment letters to back it. 

This isn’t about being a serious cycling athlete. It’s about a 15-minute ride to work, a school run by bike, a city built for bikes instead of exhaust pipes. That’s the everyday climate action that adds up and it starts with all of us.

We finished in Paris at L’Académie du climat with a COP30 film and live jazz under the stars 🎷 but the real ending is what happens next: more people choosing two wheels, more streets built for it, more cities listening.

Thank you to everyone who hosted, fixed, fed, and rode with us. You didn’t just support a journey you showed us the solution already exists. We just have to ride it. ❤️🚲
More details on our adventure on COP Bike Ride website blog !!

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06/09/2026

Welcome to Montenegro 🇲🇪 !! 🤩

06/09/2026

First aquatic COP Bike Ride banner handover 😂 🤩🥳

31/08/2026

COP31 Bike Ride - Pointe du Raz to Nantes Route - Western France 🇫🇷!
7 days, July 17–24: 450 km, ~200 cyclists

✅ July 17: Pre-departure evening event featuring a movie screening ~ 60 people and the presentation of a commitment letter and drawings from the Plogoff recreation center 🎨
✅ Departure on July 18 from Pointe du Raz 🌊—about 60 cyclists, a great atmosphere, lots of smiles, and several encounters with elected officials along the way—about 90 people throughout the day
✅ First banner handoff between 3-year-old Armel and Plogoff’s mayor, André Marchand 😍
✅ 450 km of good cheer and cyclists coming and going 🚴🚴‍♀️
✅ a boat crossing 🚤
✅ Lots of swimming, crepes, and ice cream 😋
✅ Warm welcomes from our friends at the cycling clubs in Quimper (Kernavélo), Lorient (Vél’orient), Vannes (Vélomotive), and St. Nazaire (Place au vélo Estuaire) 🙏🙏🙏
✅ A 80-km ride between Quimper and Lorient with 700 meters of elevation gain 🥵! 2 flat tires 😬
✅ Several bridge crossings, including the famous St. Nazaire Bridge, featured in a France 3 report ~ 50 cyclists
✅ 13 letters of commitment signed ✍️ (Plogoff, Cap Sizun, Haut Pays Bigouden, Pays Bigouden Sud, Plomelin, Quimper, Lorient, Vannes, Guérande, St. Malo de Guersac, Besné, Paimboeuf, St. Nazaire)
✅ 7 screenings of the film *Ensemble* 🎥: Audierne, Penmarch, Plogoff, Quimper, Lorient, Vannes, St. Nazaire
✅ 🎶 a song with 9 verses (one per day) set to the tune of “Yellow Submarine,” which can be sung in different languages along the route
✅ about 200 cyclists on this leg and just as many smiles 😊
✅ The banner was passed to Juliette and Éric in Nantes on July 24 🙏

It was an incredible, motivating, exciting, and hope-inspiring adventure, thanks to the support of the towns we passed through and the joy of the cyclists! 🚴 🚴‍♀️🥳
bzh .vannes Place Au Vélo Estuaire Smooth Samstag’orient

30/08/2026

21/08/2026

COP31 Bike Ride - Italy 🇮🇹

The southern Italian route will continue on the other side of the Adriatic Sea in September!!
The COP31 bike ride will discover new countries: Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia, before rejoining the main route in Serbia. Everyone is welcome to join us !! 🚲🚲🚲😍

Iden Petraj Active Mobility Org. Giro di Sarajevo
Biciklo.me Centar za životnu sredinu
Pippo Varanini Fablo Castellini

21/08/2026

COP31 Bike Ride - Italy 🇮🇹

The southern Italian route will continue on the other side of the Adriatic Sea in September!!

The COP31 bike ride will discover new countries: Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia, before rejoining the main route in Serbia. Everyone is welcome to join us !! 🚴🚴‍♀️🤩

Iden Petraj Active Mobility Org. Giro di Sarajevo Biciklo.me Centar za životnu sredinu

Pippo Varanini Fablo Castellini