A guide to cycling in Milan

See Milan from a different perspective with bike tour rentals. You can also rent a bike for the entire time you spend here or use one of the many electrical scooters.

Watch out
Bike stores that rent
Bicycle sightseeing with a guide
City Bikes – BikeMi
Bike sharing
Electric scooters

Cycling Italian Style

Cycling in Milan is a risky business. Milan is a car city, and cyclists are not respected as equals in the traffic.

So remember to signal your intentions in the traffic clearly, so the drivers have time to give you space. Take it easy and don’t insist too much.

Two important tips: Keep an extra eye on the tram rails (believe you us; it is the voice of experience telling you this) and remember that the cobble stones get extra slippery when it rains.

Bike stores that rent

The historical bicycle store Rossignoli in Corso Garibaldi, Brera, Milan

If you’d like to have your “own” bike during your stay you can rent it at the historical bike shop Rossignoli, which you find here:

71, Corso Garibaldi.(find on map)
open Mondays 2.30-7 pm
Tuesdays-Saurdays 9 am.-12.30 pm/2.30 -7 pm

40, Via Solari (find on map)
open Mondays 3.-7.30 pm
Tuesdays-Fridays 9 a.m.-12.30 p.m./3-7.30 pm
Saturdays 9-12.30 p.m.

Cost
1 day €20
1 week €120
Deposit €100,00 in advance

A chain lock and lights are included in the price

Rossignoli also organize tours of the city on bicycle in Italian and English and to book and get information call +3902804960 some days in advance.

You can also rent bikes at Baco bicycle store at 52,Via Solari, for information call +390235994089.

Bicycle sightseeing with a guide

There are also other guided tours of Milan on bicycle in English. Here are the 3 most popular ones:

Bike the City
Velocipedi
Baja Bikes

A group of tourists on a guided bicycle tour of Milan, Piazza Gae Aulenti

City Bikes – BikeMi

BikeMi is a bike sharing service a bit like Boris-bikes in London. It’s a great feature in public transport, but beware Italian traffic habits.

BikeMi is part of the public transport system, you must register at ATM (Milan’s municipal transport agency) and to do that you need to have a valid credit card (so they have security for the bike and possible damages) read about the legal and practical issues here. You can get a card for either 1 week or for a single day,.

For general information see here

Short trips are the cheapest
BikeMi is meant to be used for short trips and it becomes proportionally more expensive the longer you use them If you change bicycles frequently the trips can end up being totally free of charge. If you forget to deliver the bike within 24 hours, there’s a stiff fee.

Summer operating hours.
April 1st-November 2nd the service will run
Sunday-Thursday 7 am.-2 a.m.
Friday and Saturday the service will operate 24 hrs a day.