If you’re visiting Adelaide and you like to ride a bike, you’re in luck. The city has a scheme of free bicycle hire it calls City Bikes. Yep, totally free – all you have to do is provide some sort of ID as collateral (eg: licence, passport), and you’re on your way, with a bike, helmet and lock.
The city is as flat as a pancake, the roads are generally wide and almost always quiet, and the parks have a network of well maintained trails. It is paradise on two wheels!
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How do they deal with the bugbear of any hire bike scheme in Australia — mandatory bicycle helmets? Do you get to hire a dodgy used helmet worn by the last hirer or are you expected to provide your own (in which case you’ve probably got your own bike)?
There were helmets available with the bikes – Avanti, and in pretty good nick too. Fine for a day’s cruising around.