What you should bear in mind when biking in Barcelona

Barcelona and Catalunya have a wonderful infrastructure for bicycles, including bike lanes that will bring you almost everywhere, special traffic lights for bicycles, bike parkings everywhere to tie your bike, other road users that have become familiar with bicycles in the street, the possibility to take the bike on the train (usually in the front coach) if you decide to discover one of the many bike trails through Catalunya...

The bike lane of Passeig de Sant Joan 

In short, Barcelona has it all to make a visit by bike a great experience. However there are a number of things to bear in mind to turn your experience into the best experience:

• In general, you will see that the locals stick strictly to the traffic rules, they expect you to do so as well;
• for obvious reasons do not ever skip traffic lights;
• Prepare your route as much as possible according to the bike lanes (in our shop we sell the official Barcelona By Bike map);
• On the bike lanes, do not hinder users coming from the opposite direction;
• Where there are no bike lanes, it is allowed to go on the sidewalk, slowly and without hindering the pedestrians;
• When no bike lane brings you to where you want to go, bear in mind that almost all streets in Barcelona are one way only, do not go against the traffic, be sure not to hinder taxis, cars, motorcycles by going two or three persons along each other

Bike Parkings in Barcelona

We wish you a wonderful experience by bike in Barcelona!