Bike Travel Experience is an unconventional cycling travel project, founded by Dino Lanzaretti after over twenty years of solo pedaling in the most remote places on the planet. Deserts, frozen plateaus, territories where travel becomes survival: from that direct experience our guided bikepacking expeditions were born, now carried forward together with a team of guides with thousands of kilometers under their wheels.
We don’t organize tours on bike paths. We design bicycle expeditions to remote destinations like Kyrgyzstan, Iceland, Morocco, Bolivia, Chile, Namibia, Patagonia, and other extraordinary places where adventure is still authentic.
We personally select, explore, and ride every itinerary, fine-tuning trails and routes in search of the most thrilling, wild, and unique paths to experience in the saddle. You’ll tackle these journeys in small groups, always accompanied by two experienced guides capable of turning the unexpected into part of the adventure.
We provide complete support from the idea of departure to the last pedal stroke: bike preparation, equipment, logistics, and field support. For us, bicycle travel isn’t just about moving and pushing hard: it’s about entering immense landscapes, distant cultures, experiences that change the way you see the world.
If you’re looking for a cycling experience that leaves something inside you, you’re in the right place.
We only offer you trips that change your life.
WHY TRAVEL WITH US
UNIQUE DESTINATIONS
After half a lifetime of cycling around the world, we have selected the absolute most beautiful and remote destinations. We have sweated them meter by meter and here we offer them to you net of their complexity sure that you can tackle them with us. Only we take you here.
EXPERIENCE
We’ve spent a lifetime pedaling across the world, accumulating real experience, mistakes, insights, solutions. Every detail we offer you today doesn’t come from theory, but from thousands of kilometers lived firsthand. We’ve always done only this, nothing is improvised.
CONSULTATION
Your fitness level doesn’t matter, nor your mechanical skills—we’ll personally guide you through every phase of trip preparation, from choosing equipment to preparing your bike.
ADVENTURE
It won’t be cycling what lies ahead, but isolated trails in extreme environments and in the wilderness. We are prepared and experienced and want to share with you the adrenaline rush of the unpredictable. Sweat and amazement will be assured.
TO FULLY ENJOY A DESTINATION
YOU HAVE TO GET THERE BY BIKE
Our Featured Trips
Volcanic highlands, glaciers and lunar roads. A bikepacking adventure at the edge of the world.
Wild and pure Central Asia, passes at 3,800 m, nomadic yurts and primordial nature.
Desert, Berber trails and Atlas. Colors and wonder in North Africa. Without a tent.
Salar de Uyuni, Andes and Atacama. The most extreme bike trip you can imagine.
The Mecca of every true traveler. We'll pedal in wonder to the end of the world.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Simple: we’ll figure it out together.
We’ll be completely available to assess your physical abilities, your equipment and, above all, your adaptability. We don’t select numbers, but people. And our goal is to get you truly ready to leave, so that every experience lives up to what you’re looking for.
It depends on the trip you want to experience. There are more comfortable experiences, in pure bikepacking style, with every night in a hotel. Others are self-sufficient, where we carry our tent and everything needed for cooking. And then there are more complex trips in extreme environments: long isolated distances, high altitude, conditions that require a lot of tenacity and preparation. Each trip requires a different physical attitude. But if you’re here, one thing is certain: you love cycling and you know what it means to sweat. And that’s the only real foundation to start from. From there, we’ll assess your current level together and figure out if you need to push a bit harder before departure, to get you ready to experience everything fully.
Yes. For the type of trips we offer, and for the intensity of the days in the saddle, it’s essential that the bike is perfectly adapted to you. We don’t do 40 km rides on a bike path. We climb mountains, cross deserts and you’ll spend long and extraordinary hours on that bike. That’s why it’s important that you come with your own bike, the one you really know. We’ll help you equip it properly, with our advice on setup, bags and details that make the difference. Because certain experiences can’t be improvised. And neither can the bike you experience them with.
We’re here by your side. We’ll guide you on every technical aspect, evaluating your bike and building together the perfect solution for the trip you’ve chosen. We’re extremely precise about this. We’ve traveled with every type of bike and with any load configuration, and we know what really works. We’ll adapt the bike you have in mind to use, making it reliable, functional and ready to take you anywhere.
After registration you’ll receive a very detailed list of everything that needs to go in your bags. We’ll analyze it together, item by item, adapting what you already have to the real needs of the trip. Our goal is one: to give you maximum comfort without making you spend unnecessary money. If something is missing, we’ll advise you on what to buy, with an almost obsessive attention to value for money. We can do this because, in our expeditions, we’ve tested every type of material and every type of solution. No theory. Only things that really work.
We are a team of travelers who have pedaled together for thousands of kilometers around the world. We’re not just cyclists: we’re Travelers, and that makes all the difference. We know how to handle any situation, because we come from real experiences, those lived in the field. We know how to face and solve every unexpected event, because we’ve lived through it many times before. We’ve learned to connect with places and people in a natural, authentic way. For us, being anywhere means feeling at home, always has. That’s why we’re a real added value to your experience.
We’ll travel in geopolitically calm areas, but let’s be clear: we’ll enter remote environments where weather and conditions can change rapidly.
Our philosophy is to push where few dare to go, to live authentic, intense, and extraordinary experiences. And that’s precisely why preparation becomes essential.
Some of our trips have logistics similar to real high-altitude mountaineering expeditions, with all the risks and unexpected events that such extreme environments can entail. But we know how to handle them, because these are territories we’ve known and crossed for years.
We’ll always be geolocated via satellite, in radio contact and, where necessary, coordinated with local authorities. On some expeditions we’ll also use satellite phones to ensure the highest possible level of safety in places where there’s often no phone signal at all.
In the worst case, every participant will be covered by expedition-level accident insurance, designed for adventure expeditions and well beyond a normal travel policy.
Risk exists.
The difference lies in how you face it. And we face it with experience, clarity, and deep respect for the places we cross.
From the moment you decide to be part of this stupendous journey, it will be our job to personally follow you in preparing your bike, choosing materials and every mechanical and logistical aspect you will need.