 Austin
Bike Tours - Austin Cycle School
At Austin Cycle School, you will learn how to maximize fun and
safety in a 3-4 hour custom tour. We ride on trails and
sidewalks with a fleet of Torker T-300 bicycles complete with
urban cycling gear. Our bikes have cargo space for discs at the
disc golf course, towels and sunscreen at Barton Springs, a few
clubs for Butler Park pitch and putt, and your wallet or purse
for shopping and dining. The bikes have speedometer/odometers
so you can track your progress. They also have cages for the
clean water bottles and filtered water we provide.
 Our
mission is to inform our guests about their surroundings and let
each guest do the things they like best. We also intend to show
how easy and fun it can be to experience Austin on a bicycle.
If you don’t have a good time, you
get a refund. The tour is not meant to be a work out; It’s
supposed to be easy and fun. You will certainly
burn a few calories, especially if you do all the sports, but
the bike riding is very relaxed. After all, we share the spaces
on which we operate with pedestrians, and safety is our main
concern. Check out our Tours below for more info.
 The
Morning Glory Tour - 9am
$35/person, 3-4 hours, very easy
Book A Tour Here
We pick you up in a van from your home or hotel
before 9:00. Wear shorts, a t-shirt and tennis shoes. The
bikes have cargo space for your bathing suit, camera, purse or
wallet, and a shopping bag. Austin Cycle School provides
bicycles, helmets, water, snacks, sun hats, sunscreen, towels,
volleyballs, golf equipment, disc golf discs, and tennis
equipment.
 We
start at Pease Park, which offers disc golf, sand volleyball,
and tennis. These activities, like all, are optional. Before
we leave Pease Park for the short ride to Lady Bird Lake, your
group can choose some of the neat places to visit along the way:
Waterloo Records, Whole Foods HQ and Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop
are all highly recommended, and it’s easy to see all three. As
you relax on a bench of the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge over
beautiful Lady Bird Lake, your guide will open the big cooler
mounted to the front of his bicycle, and a variety of snacks are
offered at $1 each. Our experienced Austin tour guides will
recount the history of the lake, its namesake, Austin and Texas.
 Next
discuss how to spend the South Austin portion of the tour. You
can select paid activities like shopping, “pitch & putt,” mini
golf, canoes and kayaking, and Barton Springs. Or
choose free activities like extended riding with additional
information sessions. Some cool Zilker Park attractions are
also free, like the botanical gardens, the wildlife preserve and
the splash exhibit (about the aquifer).
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Butler Park pitch and putt: $7
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Barton Springs: $3 adult, $1 senior, $2
junior (12-17), $1 child (11 and under)
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Canoes & Kayaks: $8 weekdays with our ACS
discount, $10 weekends
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Peter Pan mini golf: $5
 The
Bativities Tour - 6pm
$35/person, 3-4 hours, very easy
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Like the 10am tour, you choose exactly what to
do. More options for both AM and PM tours include The Capitol,
the Saturday farmers market, restaurant dining, Long Center
music and theater events, and Deep Eddy pool. There are two big
differences between the Morning Glory and Bativities Tours is
that the evening crowd sees the bats! Our guides are bat
experts, so we will close the tour by watching and learning
about the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge Mexican Free-tail
bats. If you think that’s a mouthful, know this: bats eat their
weight in insects each night. Cold dinners from
Central Market will be available at an extra cost on the evening
tour, simply call us for details. We will dine at 7:30 at a
picnic location near the last activity before bat watching.
After dinner, your guide will show off his bat expertise while
we watch the bat emergence from the world’s largest urban bat
colony. |
