The Best Places For Bike Rental In San Antonio Texas

The Alamo, the River Walk and Unesco-listed missions – San Antonio, Texas, has cultural clout. To help you explore, visit these premier bike rental shops in the city, from century-old downtown providers to stores beside the Mission Trail. Here, you can hire comfy cruisers in the restaurant-packed Pearl District or e-bikes out in New Braunfels. One place even has a brewpub – best saved for post-exploration.

1. Bike World

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In the hip Pearl District, at the historic Pearl Brewery complex and – very handily – near lots of restaurants, Bike World rents out everything from high-quality Trek carbon road bikes to comfy cruisers for leisurely jaunts around San Antonio. The shop opened in 2010 in a black-hued warehouse shack and is known for its friendly staff who are happy to dispense day-trip recommendations. You can also pick up a map here, and junior cyclists are easily accommodated.

2. Blue Star Bike Shop

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Bikes hung up overlooking a restaurant in San Antonio Texas.

For hiking or biking, the riverside Mission Trail is a 15mi (24km) route connecting the five 18th-century Spanish Catholic missions of San Antonio. Right on the trail, Blue Star Bike Shop has amiable experts who will set you up on well-maintained seven-speed rides at competitive rates, adjusting them to your body, and will even throw in pedal buggies, cell holders, a helmet, a bell and a basket, as resident feline Miss Cookie lazes somewhere nearby. Even better? It has a brewpub next door.

3. Abel’s Bicycle Shop

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Operating from a small home in the southerly Highland Hills district, the long-running Abel’s Bicycle Shop can also deliver to (and pick up from) downtown hotels on request. Beginning as a mobile repair van in 1988, it’s the sort of business to prioritize if you like independent, devoted specialists. The fleet includes multi-speed cruisers, hybrids, tandems and mountain bikes, and all rentals include a helmet, a lock, a cable and a Mission Trail map.

5. Charles A James Bicycle Shop

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In 2020, the Charles A James Bicycle Shop celebrated its centennial, making it the oldest bike shop in San Antonio. Second-generation owner Hank has overseen the recent provision of road-bike rentals, including Fuji and Breezer models – along with introducing natty pedal-themed necklace pendants. When visiting the store, handily located next to downtown and the river, ask for a peek if it’s currently exercising another specialty: restoring amazing vintage bicycles.

6. Pedego Electric Bikes

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Northeast of the San Antonio limits, the handsome city of New Braunfels borders the windy Comal and Guadalupe rivers and promises leafy parks, 1800s German-style buildings and limestone caverns. It also has a Pedego Electric Bikes shop, with the powered vehicles ideal for following trails up beautiful, vineyard-covered hills nearby. Tandems are available, too, and locks and helmets come as standard. In other words, this is day-trip perfection.

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