Quote Originally Posted by indysteel View Post
They shuttle your stuff for you.

ETA: I know of no organized, supported tour in which you have to carry your own gear. That's sort if the point of these rides.
Well ... Adventure Cycling has their self-contained tours, which are supported -- inasmuch as there are ride leaders, and meals / sleeping accomodations (campgrounds or hotels) are provided -- but you have to carry your own gear.

This is from the Adventure Cycling website:

In keeping with the spirit of Adventure Cycling's origins, on self-contained tours you will carry your own gear and there will be no vehicle support.

Two major distinctions exist in our self-contained tour offerings: Traditional self-contained tours have a single leader and around 14 participants who share cooking duties and camp for the vast majority of overnights (on longer tours, roughly 1 indoor night per 10 riding days is budgeted). On inn-to-inn self-contained trips, riders carry their gear, but there's a lot less of it because participants stay in hotels and eat in restaurants every night (no camping or group cooking gear needs to be carried).

- jobob the contrarian.