This listing of bicycle tour companies is being provided by popular demand.  Since it is new as of April, 2005, it will be only a partial listing until we get some more recommendations to pass along to you.  And eventually, I will have to categorize things better but for now, the list is short enough to peruse.

4.    Guided tours around Lake Constance and Southwestern Germany:  http://www.velotours.de/englisch/index.htm

5.    Tours all over Western Europe: Euro-Bike and Walking Tours offers guided tours and http://www.rueckenwind.de offers both guided and supported self-guided tours.

6.    Bike Tours Direct now represents about a dozen different Europe-based bike tour companies offering tours in Germany and Austria. http://www.biketoursdirect.com.

7.    Mosel River (Self-guided tour company):  http://www.world-ventures.com/Moselle_Bicycle_Path_SG_Bike_EU.htm.

8.    Munich, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris:  http://www.mikesbiketours.com.

9.  I don't know anything about these folks but a reader recommends them highly.  I assume this is an English company but learn more from their web site at:  www.thechaingang.co.uk. 

10.  Along the Weser River in Northern Germany, try this 6-stop, serviced, self-guided tour company:  Der Weserradweg.

11.  25 + guided and individual tours in Germany:  http://www.velociped.de/eng/data/contentseite.php?menu_id=8

12.  A bike tour through the Ahr Valley is medicine for body and soul. You ride at the foot of imposing vineyards and your eyes meet one sight more beautiful as the last one you passed by.  Your hostess is an Australian.  And you can rent bikes for as little as €6.00 per day.  http://www.zweiradherberge.de/.

13.  Rad & Reisen ( Eurocycle-BikeEurope) offers tours all over Europe.  Their site is in three languages.  These folks do the Main, the Mosel, the Rhine, and Lake Constance.  They rent bikes and forward luggage or you can take a guided tour for a little more.  http://www.radreisen.at/index_en.php.

14.    These folks offer bicycle tours in Salzburg since 1999, and are well known for our famous "Sound of Music Bicycle Tour".  Their website is: http://www.mariasbicycletours.com.

15.  German Cycling Tours is Based in Germany, German Cycling Tours offers guided and self-led cycling tours in the most scenic areas of this country like Bavaria, Rhine Valley, Saar River and Moselle Valley, Saxon Switzerland or Elbe Valley. The guided tours are accompanied by a van with an English speaking local guide, who handles the luggage and organizes the daily necessities and highlights.  www.germancyclingtours.com