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OUR BIKE TOURS

Urban tour [3 hours].

A ride along the beaches of Copacabana & Ipanema, the Sugarloaf Mountain and the lake. A laid back introduction of Rio de Janeiro, a flat ride and almost only bike lanes​. [more info]

Panoramic Tour [4 hours]

Via Copacabana, to the bay that surrounds Rio de Janeiro. With great views of the Sugarloaf Mountain and Christ the Redeemer, and the colored steps in the old city.  [more info]

Ultimate Rio Tour [7 hours]

A complete exploratory trip, that will leave you with knowledge of all ins and outs of Rio. The highlights, the views and beaches, all of it. Including a typical lunch . [more info]

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Tailor made tour.

If  you are looking to do a different tour, we can arrange a tour specific to your needs. It can be for groups up to more than 100 people, were we arrange the whole operation from bringing the bikes to the hotel, helmets for all participants, mechanics and pick up of the bikes.

But we also can create a tour for small groups, with another route, or for you and your family with little children, since Rio de Janeiro is perfectly suitable to ride the bike for kids from 10 years or older. And we have seats available for the smaller ones.

[PREVIEW] - EXPLORE RIO ON A BIKE

Favelas in rio.

Social impact & s ustainab ility

Rio de Janeiro is a city with over a thousand favelas   and   more three million people living there. You can imagine the importance of these neighborhoods in day to day life in Rio de Janeiro.  A visit to Rio is not complete without a look in one of the communities. We are convinced this should be a part of your to do list when in Rio.

We as Rio by Bike see it as our responsibility to give back to the communities. When living in Rio de Janeiro it is impossible to not see the social differences and inequalities. With our bike tours we offer sustainable tours, but we also strive to increase our social impact in the city.

We are connected to the non-governmental organization EduMais, that works in the favelas of Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho. They teach the kids English and have a program of after school activities. Rio by Bike supports this ONG with their time and money. For more info about the project EduMais, please send us a message.

PRIVATE DAY TOURS - by CAR

The city of Rio de Janeiro has a lot to offer, and lots of places in Rio are not reachable on the bike. But we also want to take you to these places, and we also want to share our passion for Rio de Janeiro with those who are not able to ride the bicycle or just don’t feel like exploring on two wheels. So, here we are, offering you our Private Day Tours with a car or van.

OTHER SERVICES

Besides our bike tours, we  and our trusted partners  offer various other adventure activities.

Helicopter Flight

An impressive 20 minutes flight over Rio de Janeiro. You won’t find a cheaper and longer flight in Rio de Janeiro, with all the highlights, beaches. A once in a life time experience.

Hang gliding

For the adventurous souls, a jump from Pedra Bonita, with a parachute or hang glider. The adrenaline is huge, the heart beats loud, but the views are incredible

Hike Tijuca Forest

One of the biggest city forests in the world, Tijuca Forest, filled with waterfalls and the highest peak in the city, called Pico da Tijuca with more than a 1000 meters. Active and satisfying.

We work with professional and credentialed guides. Our guides are trained to take you safely through the streets of Rio de Janeiro and are capable of doing the urgent repairs, e.g. a flat tire.

Our bikes are a bit different than what is the normal bike in Brazil. Instead of a mountain bike, which is the standard bike, we use a typical Dutch ‘granny’ city model. Stylish and light. 

Why Rio de Janeiro?

Rio de Janeiro is a great city to explore on a bike. The city has over 400 kilometers of bike lane and is mostly flat. This combined with the great views and beaches, is a recipe for an awesome experience.

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Discover the Sunny City

Rio By Bike

The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer welcomes travelers from far and wide to the golden sand beaches of Rio de Janeiro. This iconic city attracts more tourists annually than any other in Brazil. With spectacular views from Sugarloaf mountain, the welcoming stretch of the Copacabana beach, and tropical rain forests inside the city limits, it’s no wonder everyone wants to visit Rio de Janeiro. Beyond the sites along beaten path you will find the true city; filled with art, culture, amazing food, and hospitable people. We would love to show you our Rio.

Our bike tours explore the highlights as well as some of the more traditional neighborhoods. Ride with us through the Botafogo neighborhood on our Panoramic Tour of Rio and discover how the locals live. Explore Lagoa; the beautiful park-lined district wrapped around the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon on our Urban Bike Tour. For the full experience, join us on our Ultimate Rio Bike Tour and visit the São Jão Batista cemetery, see where Bossa Nova music originated, and pedal through the beautiful Ipanema neighborhood.

Rio has such much more to offer than its beautiful beaches. We hope that you will come and discover this stunning city with us by bike!

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PANORAMIC TOUR OF RIO

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ULTIMATE RIO BIKE TOUR

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URBAN BIKE TOUR OF RIO

From $30 €28 £24 A$46 C$41 ¥4598 Kr326 R447

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Enjoy Rio Pedaling through the city

Rio de janeiro is among the world’s best cities for cycling.

The city of Rio de Janeiro for its natural beauty, has always been welcoming to locals and tourists to the practice of cycling but it´s in the recent history of the city that leaders decided to invest in this means of transport more focused on exercises and small service businesses, as a sustainable vehicle of transport  at the example of the great European cities like Paris and Amsterdam. Today Rio is already ranked among the top 20 cities in the world to use the bicycle as transportation.

Rio Bike Tour

The investments have begun by building bike lanes in 1992, at first around the beaches, expanding into the city. Today Rio de Janeiro has about 450km of cycle lanes in operation, transforming Rio into the second city with the largest bicycle route in Latin America. In Copacabana  some streets already have exclusive tracks for bicycles.

Bike Racks as part of incentive

The government in partnership with private companies in an attempt to spread the bicycle as a means of transport in Rio, put bike racks in various parts of the city and has launched the Bike Rio, a shared bicycle rental program in the city, using the system SAMBA bicycle .

SAMBA – Sistema de Bicicletas Públicas (Public Bicycle System)

SAMBA (Public Bicycle System) has 60 stations and 600 bicycles distributed in Copacabana , Ipanema , Leblon , Lagoa , Jardim Botanico , Gávea ,  Botafogo ,  Urca , Flamengo  and Downtown . Smart stations are controlled by an operation center via wireless, solar powered, strategically located in the city.

The Bike Rio program works either using a cell phone for a daily pass or internet for a monthly pass. A Bike Rio cell phone application (for Android and IPhone) is also available. However the call center and the website  are only in Portuguese language at this time. So if you want to use the system and does not speak Portuguese, you will have to ask for a carioca to help you in getting a bike for you.

Subway & Bikes

The subway also has bike racks in some of the stations, as part of the incentive campaign to use bikes as means of transport. To know more about the stations where you can park your bike visit Metro Rio website.

Renting a bike

No worries. You will still be able to get around Rio by bike even if you don't speak Portuguese or is not mixed with the locals yet. In town you can find bike stores that rent bikes, all you need is to have an id / passport with you, also there are some hostels where you can rent a bike as well.

Bike Routes

The existing bike routes in Rio can take you to different spots in town where you can have unique views of the city. Best time to explore the city by bike is during the weekend. On Sunday and holidays one of the beach avenues is closed for leisure. So for instance if you have great disposition you can get on a bike in Leblon  and bike riding to the Santos Dumont airport ( downtown ) all through a bike route.

You can go as far as to the back of the airport where you get to see the planes landing and taking off, and as a bonus a wonderful view of the city from a totally different perspective. Another option is to go to the Paineiras, the road to the Christ Redeemer, but that one is advisable to go with a guide, since some parts of the route you will have to bike riding in the streets, and it is a heavy ride for those that are not used to go up and down hills.

Several stores in the city put together a group to do this kind of sightseeing with guide for free. You can go to  Bike Paths Rio  to familiarize with the distances and routes.

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My Favorite Airbnb Experience: Exploring the Rainforests of Rio de Janeiro on an E-Bike

“Do you hear that?” We halt to a stop on our e-bikes as our guide, Stefano listens intently to the sounds of Rio’s rainforest for one particular note. Listen, cycle, listen, cycle. His excitement is infectious and my husband and I are both listening harder and pedaling faster, just as deeply invested in the chase.

“It’s there, look!” We're squinting, scanning the thick, tropical canopy when we finally see it: a flash of orange, the bright bill of a toucan, owner of the distinct call (not quite unlike a croaking frog) that we’ve been tracking. Upon closer inspection, we spot two of them, and Stefano smiles at us, explaining that toucans generally travel in pairs.

My husband, Alex, and I traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to celebrate our honeymoon exactly one year after our wedding in Mexico City . When planning our itinerary, I was determined to squeeze the most out of our five days in the Marvelous City. Neither of us are generally lie-on-the-beach-with-a-cocktail types of travelers—relaxing for us usually involves a physical activity rooted in nature, a forced digital detox as both of our jobs require us to spend a lot of our time online.

Santa Teresa and Tijuca National Park E-bike Tour

$53.00, Airbnb (per person)

We split our days in Rio between the verdant hills of Santa Teresa and Ipanema’s iconic stretch of sand. When searching Airbnb for nature-based activities in each place, I came across Stefano’s electric bike tours of the Tijuca National Park rainforest .

“My goal is to make you fall in love with the city I fell in love with. I want you to discover every beautiful corner of Rio in an experience totally immersed in nature,” he wrote in the description. His profile also touted that he was the first guide to bring e-bike tours to Rio, and that he had a five-star rating on Airbnb. I actually found myself tearing up as I scrolled through his reviews, one after the other fervidly detailing the experience as the highlight of their trip.

Stefano offers two versions of the tour: one that lasts five hours, and one that lasts three. The amount of ground covered depends on the group: how fast they pedal, how often they want to stop, and so on. We opted for the three-hour tour and effortlessly covered a whopping 19 miles—a feat I didn’t quite believe until Stefano showed us a 3D map that plotted our journey.

A major appeal of the e-bike tour is that it enables people not only to cover a lot of ground through the rainforest, but also to see extraordinary views similar to—and often better than—the views at the more popular and crowded vistas. The forest routes Stefano guided us through were blissfully empty, including the 2016 Olympic cycling route, filled only with the hum of birds and bugs, and the occasional croak of the toucans.

There is no place like Rio—that much is clear from any viewpoint. A city perched between a rainforest and a beach feels like something I made up in my dreams. There are many places to take in the city’s mind blowing vistas, like hiking to the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that lords over the city, or by taking a cable car up to Sugarloaf Mountain. But those platforms can get quite crowded, which tends to sap that special feeling of breathing in and connecting to a new place, and to the people who live there.

It rained the first three days of our trip, so much so that Stefano kindly advised us to postpone our tour to a sunnier day. So when the rain finally cleared and we arrived at the meeting point—his home in Santa Teresa—we were bursting with energy. Stefano not only matched our excitement, but kicked it up a gear as he gave us a quick tutorial and before tour.

Our route weaved through hilly Santa Teresa as we made our way toward the Tijuca National Park rainforest. We stopped frequently to take in views of the city, while Stefano thoughtfully answered our questions about the city and gave us food recommendations (like Cultivar for the neighborhood’s best pao de queijo and açaí). As we made our way to the forest paths, we encountered monkeys with solemn stares, and passed by a python Stefano described as “quite lazy.”

As we rode around and stopped at lookouts, Stefano took photos and videos of us—on his camera, on our phones, and with my film camera. Alex and I generally shy away from photos together, but Stefano insisted, and I am so grateful he captured these moments on our honeymoon, looking sweaty and dorky in our helmets, but most of all—incredibly happy.

We were fortunate to have many incredible experiences on our trip, like the surf lesson at Macumba, unbelievable meals at Aprazível and Oteque , devouring bags of pao de quejo while sipping “stupid-cold” beer (as the Cariocas call it) by the beach. But when we tell people about our honeymoon, the thing we find ourselves raving about is the bike tour, our guide Stefano, and the pair of toucans.

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