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Bicycles and rollerblades Near to the main train stations and the principal tourist routes, you’ll find companies renting bicycles for a day, a weekend or a week. Regularly serviced, sometimes equipped with baskets or with child seats, bicycles can be hired at one agency and returned to another of the same chain. Certain routes are entirely given over to cycling on Sundays and public holidays: as part of the “Paris Respire” (“Paris Breathes”) campaign. Be careful though, Paris is not like Amsterdam and some thoroughfares are not exclusively reserved for bicycles. Check our information pages for details of cycle hire firms. Guided tours / By bicycle, Vehicle hire / Bicycles Marais/Les Halles (PARIS 03) Paris Bike Tour offers guided bike tours of Paris, for small groups of between 10 & 15 people. Three different guided tours are available « Paris Left Bank », « Paris Right Bank » (Heart of... Guided tours / By bicycle, Vehicle hire / Bicycles Marais/Les Halles | Opéra/Grands boulevards | Champs-Elysées/Louvre (PARIS 01) On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, the “Cyclobuses” parked near to the Hôtel de Ville (Avenue Victoria), in the Bois de Vincennes (château esplanade) and at the Porte d'Auteuil (Gare... Vehicle hire / Bicycles PARIS Vélib' is a self-service bicycle hire network set up by J C Decaux for the Paris city authorities. 300 stations are currently being installed and 1,000 are expected by September 2007. Some 300 m... |