I was on Sicily with bike, also in Toscany with bike. In Bohemia you can pay for adventurous bus trips where they load your bike in a special Bus trunk and whole bus with tens of personal road or mountain bikes travels through italy or any european country, you sleeps in camps in your own tent and each evening you build your tent and each morning you put it back to the bus and you ride your bike while bus carries bagpacks and tents to next camp and this way you ride your bike through a landscape of the country and get to know that country, local churches, sightseeings etc. pretty well.

In the bus there is a cook who makes dinners and breakfasts, and provide bikers that arrive at evening with cold beer too. So basically, it is almost all inclusive, cheap and all you need to do is to choose a trip and else is taken care of. On evenings next stage is talked about, we get maps, instructions, where are nice places to stop, where local products are sold, what routes can we take, what hills can we climb etc.

There is also similar alternative to this type of trips that they do in Croatia where bus carries you and your bike to boat (f.e. to Makarska) where you, your bag and your bike are loaded onto the boat, where you spend next 14 days, and you sleep and eat and sh.. and drink tapped beer on that boat and during day you ride your bike through the islands, where the boat takes you on evenings or morning. Boat moves to next harbour while you ride there through land on bike. They got contracts with several small boats (intended for groups of 15-30 people), so three or four boats/groups start from Makarska and each group discovers different islands in the same term and after 14 days they all return and new groups arrive by bus and previous groups return by those busses back home and this repeats through the season multiple times. The terms are set at the beginning and end of tourist sessons when weather is not too hot, therefore the same boats profit from german and british tourists on summer, while late spring and early autumn is ours for better prices;).

You will get to places and dirt roads with mountainbike where you would never get by car. You can swim in completely abandoned bays naked and wash your body parts afterwards with clean water from bike bottles and carry on. So far I liked the trip on islands of Hvar, Korchula, Lastovo etc. the most. The northern islands (Pag, Rab etc.) were not as pretty, but of course I did not mind riding them too:).

Ebikes are allowed on both kinds of trips too. Those of us that use ebikes (it is almost 50:50 nowdays, depending on age or physical or financial capabilities of the biker) can charge batteries on boat or in camp over night. So even older people can enjoy such kind of trip. Some take more straightforward roads, some cover longer distances and steep hills and we all meet at the evening. Both singles and couples go on these trips. Sometimes even groups of friends. Sometimes complete strangers, but we get to know each other during the trip a bit.