Getting Around Munich: By bike

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With over 200km of bike trails, one of the very best ways to explore the city is on a bicycle. Guided tours are available, or for the independent-minded, rentals and maps are available at the main train station (Hauptbahnhof) and other areas of the city.

Bikes can also be rented by the Call-A-Bike system, which is run by Deutsche Bahn (national rail service). You need to call a number listed on the bikes from your mobile phone and register with the callabike.de website in order to use them. The service is convenient, as you just spot an available bike throughout the city and just leave it at your destination. However, this is not an economical alternative if you are planning many trips in a single day. In that case, it is better to get a day or multiday rental from one of the rental services located throughout central Munich.

• Mike's Bike Tour www.mikesbiketours.com, located near the Hofbräuhaus, offers historical tours of the city.
• Discover Munich www.discovermunich.net offers free bike tours around Munich's old town and the Engish Garden.
• Free Bike Tour with Lenny- meet at Marienplatz everyday in the summer at 11 and 4 next to fountain.

Munich is a bike-friendly city that assigns many paths (especially along river Isar and in the parks, even in the city center) for joint usage by pedestrians and bikers alike. This is a notorious source of trouble since strollers tend to ignore the bike traffic to the detriment of everybody involved.

• www.mikesbiketours.com
• www.discovermunich.net