Whether you are a local resident or a visitor in Vienna, it is always possible to travel around the city and its outskirts on a bike. In fact, bike tours are also available to tourists who would like to explore Vienna on two wheels.
If you’re a bike lover and happen to be traveling to this Austrian capital during the second week of June, you can take part in the Bike Week. This is a bi-annual event wherein more than 2,000 bikes join a parade organized by the City Council. A party follows after the parade on the Kaiserwiese in the Prater Park.
This bike tour is usually timed with the Velo City conference considered to be world’s largest bike congress. It aims to tour international guests visiting Vienna to show them the city’s architectural and urban planning sites.
This year, the bike tour started from the Burgtheater via the Universitatsring then proceeded to the Kai, Aspernbrucke bridge, Praterstrasse towards Praterstern. It then continued to the Lassallestrasse and the Reichsbrucke bridge then back to the Kaiserwiese in the Prater Park.
The Velo City congress gathered more than 1,000 cycling experts who discussed the green and healthy lifestyle, the dangers of drunk cycling as well as efforts of other cities such as in San Francisco, Chile and Hungary to have their own biking lifestyle. The four-day conference featured 400 workshops and discussions.
According to Manfred Neun, head of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), it is their goal to take up new trends, promote innovative ideas and develop cycling cultures and communities.
