10 Reasons Why - Why Best of VA Bike Tours

• Location, Location, Location: 

SCENERY:  Enjoy Shenandoah National Park’s great wildlife and waterfall hikes, old farmlands, horse estates, wineries, the Shenandoah River and its valley, and endless vineyards.

HISTORY:  This region is host to the Presidential Homes of James Madison (Montpelier), Thomas Jefferson (Monticello), and James Monroe (Ash Lawn-Highland).   Civil War museums, battlefields, and endless roadside markers highlight the importance of this region in our great country’s history.  Visit great Main Street Towns that date back to the formation of our country.

WINE COUNTRY:  This region of Virginia is host to the best of Virginia’s nearly 200 wineries.  We have highlighted the best ones and included many on our daily rides.

GREAT RIDING:  Our rides include Skyline Drive (considered by many to be the best riding in the Eastern United States), Virginia Scenic By-ways, and constant country back roads.  Mountain climbs, roller coaster back roads, twisty down hills, and rolling farmlands can each be found almost daily.    

• Small Size- Maximum of 24 riders:  First and foremost, we love building relationships and want that for our guests.  You have great opportunities to as we serve you meals, relax around the campfire, manicured gardens, or in the hot tub.     

• Service True: Relax and enjoy.  When not riding, we will be serving you food, driving you to excursions, providing concierge services, preparing your campfire, video production, or laundering cycling clothes.  We want to serve you, and if you are camping we take care of set up/break down with no lines for showers or dining.  

• Great accommodations:  These are unique and secluded vacation properties that we have to ourselves.  You will likely find yourself strolling the properties, be it in the seclusion of mountain trails, walking around the ponds, or dipping your feet in the cooling river.  Most properties offer hot tubs, fire rings, pool tables, or ping pong.  Some unique features include homes over 100 years old, pools, ponds, formal gardens, a covered bridge, and riverside settings.

• No Work Custom Camping:  We provide each camper a custom 7’ x 8’ cabin tent with 7’ ceiling, extremely comfortable camping mattress, pillows, bed linens, towels, camping chairs and lantern.  You arrive, ride, relax, eat, sleep, and repeat daily.  We set up and break down.  Three full bathrooms to serve a maximum of 16 campers, conveniently located close to the tent.

• Garmin 705 GPS:  That is correct, that dream piece of equipment you have been wanting can be taken for a test-ride all week.  For a fee of $39 we will equip your Garmin 705 GPS cyclometer with Heart Rate and Cadence Monitoring.

• Great Food: Breakfast, dinner and most lunches are provided unless specifically stated in the itinerary.  On each tour, we will typically have one dinner at the restaurant of your choice, not included in the tour price, and one restaurant dinner as a group, included in the tour price.  We have wonderful meals from Made-To-Order Omelets, Grilled Vegetable and Humus Sandwiches, Portabella Mushroom Pizzas, Steak Kabobs, Shrimp Fajitas.  Daily, enjoy a selection of fresh cut fruit, freshly baked muffins, French Press Coffee, iced coffee and appetizers in the afternoons, great dinners with desserts.

• Personalize it: Whether an individual or a group booking, we have a desire to serve, and want to work with you helping make any special arrangements.  Let us help plan special birthday, anniversary, or milestone celebrations. 

• Nightly Video Productions: Each night we will preview the next days ride, allowing you to discuss your ride of choice.  Additionally, we enjoy reviewing the current day's pictures & videos.  

• Excursion Transportation: Unlike tours with hundreds of participants, we will transport our guests to chosen excursions, allowing you to personalize your tour.  We want you to be able to enjoy activities you want, not what we have selected for hundreds of people.  For some attractions unique to the area, we will plan group excursions. 

• Non-Riders Welcome: We are glad your non-riding spouse is here.  We have laid out excursions at each of the properties which include endless wineries, shopping, historical tours, hiking, country drives and much more.  We do recommend that non-riding companions have a car available on the tour so they can go on additional excursions while others are riding.