Alsace Bike Hire - Including Local Transport
Bike hire
For
your self guided bicycle tour you may need a bike hire shop to rent a bike. Such shops are found mainly in the cities of Alsace. Some are accessible on the web. Depending on hire bike
quality you should expect to pay €7-10 per day. Tandems for rent are not common but can be arranged. If the staff speak a language other than French it will probably be German, but some speak English. They will patiently wait as you stumble through any school-boy/girl French. All the hire shops we describe are orientated around the various Alsace bike routes and will carry maps etc. Have a look at our Cycling Tips advice on bike hire before you make the deal with the hire shop.
To help you on your self guided bike tour we thought we would point out an error we made on bike hire. In all languages there are false-friends, words that mean one thing in one language and another thing in another language. In French "pannier" describes the basket (wire or straw) that fits on the front or rear of the bike to hold the odd book and bottle of wine. "Pannier" in English describes the large luggage bag mounted (often in pairs) on the rear of a bike to allow you to travel between hotels. Be aware!
Strasbourg
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Cycles Blondin, 5 Rue
Brigade Alsace Lorraine,
67000 Strasbourg, Tél 03 88 36 2215
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Accro
Bike, 22 Faubourg de Pierre, 67000 Strasbourg, Tél
03 88 21 43 43
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Cycles Suss, 33 Avenue
des Vosges, 67000 Strasbourg, Tél 03
88 36 20 33
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Ecolo'cation, 25 Rue de
la Première Armée, 67000 Strasbourg, Tél 03
88 23 17 05
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Alsace Sports Nature
Takamaka, 39 Rue Finkwiller, 67000 Strasbourg, Tél 03 90 23 87 15
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Vélocation,
Place
de la Gare, 67000
Strasbourg, Tél 03 88 23 56 75 or
03 88 24 05 61
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Esprit Cycles, 18 rue
Jacques Peirotes, 67000 Strasbourg, Tél 03
88 36 18 41
Colmar
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Geiswiller SA, 6 Bld du
Champ de Mars, 68000 Colmar, Tél 09 75 92 05
21
- Cyclotheque,
31 Route d'Ingersheim, 68000 Colmar, Tél
03
89 79 14 18
Ribeauvillé
- Binder Jean-Phillipe, 82
Grand Rue, 68150 Ribeauvillé, Tél
03 89 73 65 87
Marckolsheim
- Multi
Cycles (bike repair), 8 Rue du Rhin, 67390 Marckolsheim, Tél
03
88 58 75 43
Sélestat
- Boespflug Sarl, 5 Rue
Sainte Barb, 67600 Sélestat, Tél
03 88 92 05 14
Lingolsheim
Eguisheim
- Meyer Jean-Luc (bike
hire), Trois-Châteaux, 68420 Eguisheim, Tél 03 89 24 53 66
Rouffach
- Cycles
et Sports 68, 29 Rue Mar LeFebvre, 68250
Rouffach, Tél 03 89 78 50 80
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Bike maintenance
During
your Alsace bike tour we hope you will not need this, but if you do most of the bike hire
shops will provide a maintenance service (at a fee) even for
each others' bikes. At the very least we recommend that you can repair a puncture, see our Cycling Tips, though of course, with modern tyres, punctures are less common. We also recommend a couple of books (a light one and a heavy one) of mybikeguide repairs.
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Left luggage
Airports
Paris Charles de Gaulle has relatively expensive luggage storage.
Zurich airport has left luggage.
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Bike transport
Train
and bike
Information
about departures and prices within France are available on the
internet (in English) from SNCF. Regional trains will take bikes. Within Alsace use TER-SNCF.
Bus
and bike
The following bus companies exist but do not carry bikes on buses
Ferry
There are few ferries in this area. However, there will be day trips on the Rhine in the summer months.
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