On a bike, you often overtake cars.
The best way to buy a cheap bike in Paris is to rent one because it costs next to nothing!
The trick is very simple and increasingly accessible.
The City of Paris a few years ago already made armies of self-service bicycles available to Parisians.
Since then, the disease has spread to Lyon (Velov'), Bordeaux, Nancy, Strasbourg... and even to several cities in Europe. All you have to do is be 14 years old and leave a security deposit of 150 euros, not cashed, to be able to rent your bike.
You borrow a bike wherever you want, and you put it back in the station you want. In Paris there is a station every 300 meters. You can rent bikes and go with the children, it's nice...
New:the Vélib' system is now extended to the inner suburbs of Paris and you can pick up bikes in neighboring towns. All this for a price, brace yourselves, of less than 30 euros per year! It's worth getting on the bike, right? Go to the Velib website to subscribe and start driving economically in Paris.
No need to look to buy a cheap bike in Paris when it is enough to rent it. There are three rates:one year, one week or just one day. It's a real clever trick, since the price is more than very modest, especially for the year:29 euros, which will make you less than 8 cents a day!
So why buy when renting is so affordable... Plus with Vélibs, the first thirty minutes are completely free! Otherwise if you rent your bike for one day only you will pay one euro. For a week you only pay 5 euros. If you compare these modest euros with fuel consumption by car, even taking the least greedy, the savings made are absolutely enormous :-).
