TOP Bike Rental Rome
Why choose TopBike Rental & Tours for your Bike Rental in Rome:
• Being, as we are, driven by a deep passion for cycling, we want to offer our customers the bikes and the disinterested advice that we ourselves would like to receive when we happen to rent a bike elsewhere.
• Our high personal standard of service translates into uncompromising quality and a notable variety of rental models - including also 4 electric bike rental models.
• Sharp attention to detail: our bikes are checked by a mechanic after each use and, except for road bikes, all come equipped with comfortable saddles and anti-puncture tires (reducing the risk of a flat tire by 90%).
What's more, our Rome Bike Rental service includes the following advantages:
Helmet and ABUS U-Lock included
Wide range of frame sizes
Selection of quality accessories
Free Cancellation up to
24 h before service
To ensure availability of your preferred model and preferred size, we strongly recommend making a booking online.
All our Bike Models
Bike Rental in Rome
There’s no better way to explore Rome and its marvelous surroundings than on two wheels! Renting a bike in the Eternal city will give you access to places you could never get to reach by car or public transport, while also allowing you to cover greater distances than you ever could on foot.
A good bicycle is all you need - and we’ve got plenty of them. Our name isn’t TopBike for nothing, after all: driven by our own passion for cycling, we like offering customers the same bikes we ourselves enjoy riding. For precisely this reason, our Rome bike rental is the most comprehensive and quality-driven service in the whole of central Italy! Simply choose from our wide range of options (including also electric bikes), and enjoy the views!
Now that you know who to come to if you want to rent a bike in Rome, you might wonder: where should you venture for a ride? Well, this city can really spoil you for choice: riding a bike in Italy’s capital can be a truly magical experience, whether it’s exploring the city’s numerous beautiful parks, such as Villa Ada Savoia, Villa Pamphili, Villa Borghese or Caffarella, or venturing down the Appia Antica road to the Aqueduct Park.
Outside of these cycling locations, it is no secret that the city itself offers only a few bicycle lanes. But by following the advice of our staff during the Rome bike rent pick-up procedure, you’ll make sure to avoid the traffic and immerse yourself carefree in the enchanting open-air museum that is the Eternal City.
Our bicycles are either electric-assisted or lightweight (also including some carbon-frame models) and come with efficient brakes, hydraulic shock absorbers, comfortable saddles, puncture-proof tires, and smooth and sharp drivetrain systems. Our electric bike rental in Rome boasts 4 models, including a fully suspended E-Mountain Bike and a Child E-Mountain bike. With Top Bike Rental Rome, your dream ride can now become a reality…
How difficult is Rome for bicycle rental activities?
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The number of cyclists in the city has been significantly increasing every passing year. Although the Italian capital isn’t renowned for being a cyclist’s paradise, with a little bit of common sense and our helpful tips, exploring the Eternal City by bicycle (be it electric or not) is actually very safe and fun. Particularly so if you choose a couple of our electric bikes for your Rome bike rentals.
Lots of streets in the city center are off-limits for cars and are absolutely perfect for cycling. By following routes that are closed to traffic or are not packed with motor vehicles you’ll be able to access some of Rome’s most beautiful parks, including Villa Borghese, Villa Pamphili, Villa Ada or the Caffarella Valley. You can also get away from the noise of the city and take the Tiber riverside cycle path, or head out beyond the Roman walls and ride along the Appia Antica or the ancient Roman aqueducts.
In Rome, bicycle rent is getting more and more popular. At TopBike, you can rent all kinds of bikes, and that includes our e bike rental in Rome service. In recent years, Electric bikes have truly made a breakthrough in terms of popularity, and are becoming the way to effortlessly and smoothly explore any city or landscape. We provide you with everything you need to enjoy your ride as safely and comfortably as possible!
Bike Rent Rome: our Trekking Bikes
But let’s take a closer look at the models we have on offer.
If you plan to rent a bike in Rome, you should take into account the specifics that set this city apart from any other. For one, the city center is notably full of cobbled streets. While cobblestones have great charm and are so much more beautiful than asphalt, they’re not particularly convenient when riding. This is why we do not offer standard city bikes for hire: their rigid fork and unsuitable geometry can be hard on one’s body.
What is more, Rome is famous for its seven (proverbial) hills! While they’re not really massive hills, some of the uphill routes can be challenging and are best tackled with a lightweight bike that packs a wide range of gears - or with a pedal-assisted electric bike.
Unlike City bikes, Trekking bikes have both suspension fork and 27 gears. As part of our Roma rent bike service, we offer top-notch, lightweight German trekking bikes from the well-known Winora brand. These models have hydraulic disc brakes, and their trekking geometry makes them a great choice for longer urban excursions or even cycling trips!
And if you are still apprehensive about Rome’s seven hills, you can always opt for an E bike! (more on electric bikes in the dedicated paragraph below).
Bike Rent Rome: Our Mountain Bikes
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We have five different mountain bike models on offer for adult cyclists, as well as 3 mountain bike models for children (in Rome, bike rentals aren’t just a great idea for some solo fun, but a wonderful idea for a family activity too!).
Our entry-level adult model is a hardtail cross-country mountain bike from Cannondale, with an aluminum frame, 29” wheels, a RockShox fork and a monoring 10-gear transmission. This is a very versatile and comfortable bicycle that we often rent for city rides, short out-of-town trips, or cycling excursions. For this latter use, we can also easily mount one of our rear bike racks onto these models, in order to clip-on our Ortlieb pannier bags.
If you love mountain biking, but you also love speed and agility, for your Rome bike rent we suggest one of our hardtail carbon-frame Cannondale Scalpel HT Carbon 4 bikes. This super lightweight cross-country mountain bike has the right geometry for uphill routes but easily holds its own when riding downhill. It has 29” wheels and a RockShox fork, along with Shimano XT drivetrain system and hydraulic disc brakes.
If instead you are more attracted by technical descents, we suggest renting one of our Cannondale Habit 3 bikes: this is a fully suspended trail bike (more properly termed an “all-mountain bike”) with generous fork travel and wide tires for excellent grip.
Going a level up, if you’re looking for the very best in hardtail cross-country riding, for your bicycle rental Rome choose our Cannondale F-si Carbon 2 (it’s practically a lightning bolt!) or the legendary full-suspension Cannondale Scalpel Carbon 2, both with 29” wheels and top-notch components.
For children, our options include a Cannondale mountain bike with 20” wheels and Ghost mountain bikes with 24” wheels. And last - but definitely not least, we also offer Stevens Colorado bikes with 27.5” wheels for children aged 9 to 12, with state-of-the-art components.
Bike Rent Rome: Our E-Bikes
For those who don’t feel quite in shape, would rather take it easy, or perhaps want to try out some really demanding routes, we have an ample Rome e bike rental offer – whether for city biking, travelling or off-road.
In the first case we would suggest one of our Cannondale Adventure Neo 3.1 EQ E-Bikes, equipped with a reliable Bosch electric engine (and battery) and featuring ‘laidback’ geometry.
We pride ourselves on being the best electric bike rental in Rome, so we couldn’t fail to offer pedal-assisted electric mountain bikes! We offer a hardtail cross-country version, the Cannondale Trail Neo 4, with an electric engine and 500Wh battery from Bosch, 29” wheels, hydraulic brakes and Shimano Alivio drivetrain system. Fitted with an extremely comfortable saddle, this is a very versatile bike, which is a joy even for a city ride.
But if you want to go all-out with your e bike rental in Rome, you could rent our pedal-assisted Ghost E-ASX Essential Enduro electric bike. This fully suspended E-Bike is a beast featuring a super-performing Bosch Performance CX electric engine and battery, a RockShox fork with 160 mm travel, and a SRAM SX Eagle gearbox!
Earlier we mentioned the many Roman parks where cycling is an opportunity not to be missed... Villa Ada, Villa Pamphili, Caffarella, the monumental Villa Borghese, not to mention the Monte Mario and Pineto parks… and how could we forget the Aqueduct Park and the Appia Antica? They’re all very different but they do have one thing in common: they’re great fun to discover on a mountain bike. (Villa Borghese is a slight exception, to be honest, as it does have paved pathways). Discover each of these parks with the ease of electric assistance with our Rome e bike rental service!
Rome Bike Rental: Our Tandem Bikes
Enjoy the shared experience of cycling in the Eternal City – with a tandem! We are proud to be the only company renting tandem bicycles in Rome!
We have 3 different models on offer: a Cannondale tandem mountain bike, equipped with hydraulic disc brakes and solid components; a Cannondale tandem road bike, our flagship model (the first bike you see when you enter our shop!); and a number of tandem trekking bikes.
All of our tandems can be used for longer trips, as they’re easily fitted with pannier racks.
Road Bike Rental Rome
To top it all off, we are also one of the very few road bike and gravel bike rentals in south-central Italy. With TopBike by your side, you’ll never need to compromise with your bicycle rental in Rome!
We offer an excellent aluminum gravel bike model equipped with Shimano GRX groupset: the Cannondale Topstone 1. This is the perfect bike for mixed-surface excursions or backpacking adventures. For those who want to plan longer touring journeys – or simply like to travel with more luggage space - we can also propose the Ghost Road Rage Essential EQ gravel model, which comes with the advantage of an integrated rack, mudguards and dynamo lights.
If you are a dedicated road cyclist visiting Rome, rent a bike of the best quality for your tarmac rides in and around the city. We offer exceptionally light carbon road bikes from Stevens (weighing only 6.8 kg!) equipped with Shimano Ultegra components. The cherry on the cake is our endurance road bike model: the Synapse Carbon 2 LE is a carbon road bike from Cannondale, featuring electronic Shimano 105 Di2 transmission and hydraulic disc brakes.
Obviously, we do have clip pedals to offer for your bike hire in Rome, but we suggest you bring your own; one of our mechanics will be on hand to fit them in no time.
Bicycles with child seats to rent
The Top Bike philosophy is to offer the very best and that motto extends to every piece of equipment – even child seats! This is why we use Hamax, the best brand on the market. Our Rome Rent a Bike offer includes both front-mounted (up to 15 kg) and rear-mounted (up to 25 kg) child seats. These child seats are compatible with both our Rome electric bike rental models and with our conventional, non-electric bike models (trekking as well as mountain bikes).
Bike Rental Rome Italy
Every season hundreds of cyclists travel to the Italian peninsula attracted by the idea of taking epic trips along this country’s famed routes.
Have you ever thought about exploring the Italian Peninsula by bike yourself? Your options are manifold: from medieval pilgrimage routes such as Via Francigena (the 500-km section between Lucca and Rome is breath-taking) to the epic Ciclovia del Sole (3000-km from the Italian Alps to Sicily), from mountain trails in the Apennines to incredible seaside routes along the Amalfi coast. Whatever route you choose, you will find that all roads lead out (!) of Rome. This makes our Rome bicycle rent service the ideal springboard opportunity for your Italian touring trips!
Once upon a time, due to their length and elevation gain, such longer trips may have been out of reach for any but the regular cyclists. Nowadays many of our customers choose to rent electric bikes for their cycling trips, as E-Bikes have made a name for themselves as powerful and comfortable way to experience an extended landscape. Of course, many still prefer a conventional bike for their travels, and this is why we are well stocked in both! In adventure trips such as these, what counts the most is durability and reliability of equipment, because this is what allows you to focus on the remarkable experience of discovering a land on a bike. With our Bike Rental Rome, Italy will surely unveil a whole new layer of beauty to you!
Last but not least: the idea of a bike hire in Rome requires a small note of caution regarding certain cycling routes in the city. There aren’t many, as we’ve said, but we must spare a word of warning about using some of them.
While the older cycle lanes like the Tiber riverside or the cycling route on the via Cristoforo Colombo are safe to use (as they’re separated from the main road), the Rome City Council has recently set up a new network of cycle lanes that are not physically separated from the main road.
As if that weren’t enough, these cycling routes are frequently subject to unmarked diversions when approaching bus stops or dumpsters, which leads the cycle path towards the center of a main road.
Obviously, these cycle lanes can be very dangerous so we’d like to warn all our Rome bicycle rental customers to be wary, and avoid using these bike paths as far as possible.