2025 Swift Campout: Hands Bicycle Club, Milton Keynes, UK

Swift Campout is the annual, global call to go bike-camping to celebrate the solstice. For the eleventh year in a row, adventurers will pack camp gear on their bicycles and head out on June 21st and 22nd, 2025 to kick off summer with a bike-overnight. 

Swift Campout is an ode to spending the longest day in the saddle, to the shortest night under the stars and to the stellar community that rallies to share this stoke. Join us!

We’re pleased to introduce you to Hands® Bicycle Club

Aside from being rookie bikepackers, we’re Hands® – a community bike crew from Milton Keynes, England. We’re planning on riding the Olympic overnighter through Lea Valley and the ancient woodlands of Epping Forest. It’ll be our maiden voyage for camping as a crew and first time backpacking for a lot of the riders too so we’ll be taking it slow and easy. We can’t think of a better day, activity and method of transport so the Stoke Level™ is high. We can’t wait to get out there!

The Route https://bikepacking.com/routes/london-olympic-gravel-overnighter/  

Distance 80km

Terrain Mixed paved & gravel

Difficulty Level Easy - Great for newcomers to bicycle touring who are comfortable on the road and ready to expand their skills. Terrain will be mostly paved with some hard packed gravel/dirt rail trail routes.

Destination Lee Valley Almost Wild Campsite

This is a private Swift Campout!