Morocco Bike Tours FAQ

Our range is, but individual tours are not. Day tours and e-bike trips are graded easy and suit anyone who can ride a bicycle. The multi-day mountain bike tours are intermediate, and the enduro trips are genuinely advanced. Tell us how and where you ride and we will point you at the right one. We would rather do that than have you on the wrong trip.

A typical multi-day riding day is 30–40km with 800–1,200m of climbing, taking four to six hours including stops. Day tours are shorter. What catches people out is not any single day but several in a row, so if you are unsure, the support vehicle is always there.

March to May and September to November. Spring gives you green valleys, water in the rivers and snow on the high peaks; autumn is drier with faster trails. July and August are too hot for multi-day trips in the low valleys, though high-altitude day rides still work. Winter riding below 1,800m is excellent and underrated.

Yes. Non-riding partners travel in the support vehicle, meet the group for lunch and stay in the same accommodation. Some of them end up seeing more of Morocco than the riders do.

Full-suspension trail bikes with 140–150mm travel for our MTB tours, 160–170mm enduro bikes for the technical trips, Bosch-powered e-MTBs with 625Wh batteries, and gravel and road bikes on request. Everything is serviced after every tour rather than once a season, and set up for your height and weight on day one.

No. Bike hire is quoted separately so you can see exactly what you are paying for, and so riders bringing their own bikes are not charged for a bike they do not use. Helmets are a different matter. Those are provided free to every rider. Ask us for current bike rates when you enquire.

Yes, and plenty of people do — especially on the enduro trips where setup matters. We will build it on arrival, service it daily and carry a spare wheelset. Bring more brake pads than you think you need: Atlas descents get through them.

Yes, free, on every tour — helmets are the one piece of kit we will not let you ride without. On the enduro trips a full-face or convertible helmet and knee pads are mandatory rather than optional, and we have those too. If you prefer your own helmet, bring it.

Padded cycling shorts, gloves, a breathable top or jersey, stiff-soled shoes, sunglasses, sun cream, a water bottle or hydration pack, and a warm layer for the evenings — mountain gîtes sit at 1,500–1,800m and get cold after dark even in summer. A light waterproof is worth carrying in spring and autumn.

Two to twelve riders per guide. In practice most departures are private groups of two to six. Larger groups run with additional guides so nobody is riding in a queue.

Airport transfers, all transport to and from the trailhead, accommodation, an English-speaking Moroccan guide, all meals during the tour, helmets, and a 4x4 support vehicle for the full route. Not included: flights, travel insurance, bike hire, tips, drinks and meals outside the itinerary, and personal expenses.

Riads in Marrakech and Essaouira, and Berber village gîtes in the mountains. The gîtes are family homes that take guests: simple twin rooms, blankets, hot showers, and a communal salon where dinner is served. They are not hotels, and the food in them is the best on the trip.

You get in the vehicle. It shadows the entire route and meets the group wherever the road crosses the trail. Plenty of people ride the flat sections, take the vehicle up a climb and then ride the whole descent. That is a completely normal way to do a tour, not a failure.

Tell us when you book and it is handled. Moroccan cooking is naturally good for vegetarians. Coeliac and severe nut allergies need more notice because we brief every household that cooks for us, but we manage them regularly.

Message or call us with rough dates, group size and the riding you enjoy. We reply with a proposed route, accommodation and a price, usually within a day. We adjust it until it is right, and nothing is confirmed until you are happy with the whole thing.

Four to six weeks is comfortable for a multi-day trip. Day tours can often be arranged with a few days' notice. Accommodation in the popular valleys gets tight in April, May and October, so earlier is better in those months.

Yes, and it must cover cycling. For the enduro trips it must explicitly cover enduro or downhill mountain biking. Many standard policies exclude both. Mountain rescue in the Atlas is not free and a policy that excludes your activity will not pay for it.

We ride in light rain; it is rarely a problem here. If conditions are genuinely unsafe we reroute to lower ground, move the day, or refund it. That call is made the evening before rather than on the morning at the trailhead.