FreeWheelin’ Bike Tours

Jonathan was our guide on the C and C bike tour. He made it worth it big time and would recommend this for a fun afternoon historic and personal tour!

A bicycle tour was on my list of things to do here in New Orleans in our visit. We stopped at a couple to check them out and so glad that we did. Right off the bat these guys were enthusiastic and ready to deliver a quality tour. We booked a trip for the next morning and were not disappointed. Guys in the shop were awesome, Ben our guide was awesome, the tour was awesome. Ben had a lot of information you don’t get on self guided walking tours. I noticed while he was sharing stories with us we had folks eavesdropping as they realized there booklets weren’t as personable. Can’t recommend this enough. Great way to experience the city.

This is a must do if you would like to see a bunch of the city while being told about its great history. Well worth the time.

Best tour in New Orleans! Mr. Jamison was the most entertaining and knowledgeable person we have met during our stay. Course it’s also the first time I was given homework on a tour haha.
Had a great time, weather was cool just enough stops to give us history, but not long enough to cool down too much.

This was a great Bike Tour! We’ll worth the bucks. John our guide was passionate about NOLA and gave us the royal tour of city and all the fun history facts about each site. Perfect BIKES AND size group and thanks for the stop for beignets in City Park!

Had a great time. Jonathan was informative and helped give great food recommendations and other tidbits of knowledge that were outside the standard tour.

The bikes were surprisingly and incredibly comforting and Jonathan was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic! What was surprising was how socially aware Jonathan was when discussing racially-​sensitive history topics throughout the tour. He was fun, the ride was at a good pace and I’d HIGHLY recommend this tour to others visiting New Orleans.

Jonathan was a great guide. He was audible, knowledgable, guided us safely through the streets and was enthusiastic. His passion for the city and the job was palpable. Very much a no-​brainer decision. The other tour companies I’m sure are decent (I’ve not tried them). However, if you want to make a risk-​free, slam-​dunk, it-​will-​be-​great decision, just go with FreeWheelin’ Bike Tours. You’ll be happy.

I took the Creole & Crescent tour and it was such a blast! Our tour guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. You get to see so many beautiful buildings on this tour. The bikes are comfy and they even give you a basket and water.
Bring cash! You’ll need it to purchase beignets and pralines!

This is my first review ever, but I had to do it, because this is how good this tour was! We were lucky enough to get a last minute spot on the bike tour. It was a perfect weather day, a great tour guide, a beautiful city, and comfortable bikes. I’m not an expert biker either, it was such a great time. This is a family business and we even met some of the family on the tour. The tour guide is like 15 generation or something like that. It was an insiders tour. So fun! highly recommend it!

We found Free Wheelin’ on Unilocal and we’re glad we did. We went on the Queen of the South tour, which is basically the Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery no. 1. Takes all morning, but is really worth the time and money. Lots of stops, so you get to hear a lot of stuff about NOLA. Easy riding on cruiser bikes. Very safe, except when you ride downtown and have to compete with traffic. Learned a lot.
Their website also led me to a Plantation Tour through Cajun Encounters where we saw the plantations at Laura and at Oak Alley.

Our tour guide Laura was awesome. Highly recommend. It was a great way to see the city, get some history and sense of local culture.

In my experience, there are three ways to do a guided tour: by car, by foot, or by bike. The first is fast, furious, run by bad-​joke-​making-​asshat, who operates off a script that has awful music and sound effects and no personality. Walking tours seem to be hit or miss with a fifty/​fifty shot at getting a vagrant trying to turn a quick buck or someone sincere who can get you around 1% of the city you’re trying to see.
Now bike tours have always been the right way to go for me. You can cover a lot of ground, stay active, and have a personal experience with a guide who always seems to know their shit and care about the city. I don’t know what it is about bike tours that set them apart, perhaps the intermediate overhead and tilt towards ownership who are down to earth bike riding types, but it doesn’t matter. They work.
This bike tour is no different. It was among the best I’ve done. We had a relatively new guide and anyone would have guessed he was a veteran of many years because he was local and truly cared about what he was proselytizing for. We got a real taste of the city visiting all sorts of neighborhoods and getting some real talk about state of things. Their entire operation is friendly and authentic and convenient to reach. Add on top a fleet of high quality, excellent condition, bikes (which is usually the most hit or miss part of a bike tour) and there was nothing to speak ill of this group. Plus you can book online!

DEFINITELY A MUST!!! A friend recommended this tour to me and my partner and we were not disappointed. We did the Creole and Crescent tour with Mike. He was such an amazing tour guide, he was really knowledgeable about the history of New Orleans and really taught me a lot. We ventured to many spots I hadnt already been so it was a great, quick was to see the city. The bikes were super easy to ride and comfortable. He had free waters as well which was good as it was a stinking hot day. I then recommended to a friend who was going a month after and he raved on about how much he enjoyed it as well! Again A MUST DO!

Garden District Tour with Teddy. Just do it. You won’t be disappointed. He took myself and my friend out since we were the only two registered and we had a great time listening to the history of the city and joking around him him. He’s great, the tours are great, just book it already!

Firstly, book now!
Secondly, expect a great time with an extremely knowledgable tour guide.
Thirdly, hop on your bike and soak in all that New Orleans culture.
It was 7 of us and while everyone was supposed to book the tour before hand because the slots fill up fast, we had two people that waited to the day of sign up for the tour. Our guide Teddy-​P, as we called him, was more than accommodating and really went over and beyond to keep our group together and allowed us to come the following day for the Creole and Crescent tour. We enjoyed the history and culture of New Orleans.
During the first part of the tour one person from our group was having trouble acclimating herself with riding a bike because it had been some time and she actually fell off the bike in front of an oncoming car and Teddy-​P sped over to check on her and make sure she was okay. She was way too nervous to get back on he bike and finish the tour that Teddy-​P even gave her a refund.
Like Teddy-​P said «In New Orleans you’re family until you prove otherwise». We felt the love and I encourage you to take your bike tour with free wheelin!
–Khadejah and the Gang!

A fun and personal tour of New Orleans.
The bikes have incredibly comfortable seats and appear well adapted to New Orleans terrible potholes. We got a great history of the city. The historic and architectural importance of various houses was explained, grave yards and their history laid out, and we saw a range of New Orleans iconic sites.
The personal touches from the guide were nice (getting us to ring bells to his three year old niece for example) but the bitching about the other companies should be toned down. The context of the founding of their company and quality of their bikes wasn’t relevant to us, we’d made our choice of company and it was an unwelcome distraction.
Otherwise a wonderful experience.

Amazing! Teddy did a great job of showing you around the city outside of Bourbon St & the Garden District. You get to see the real NOLA and learn some history in the process. Few great stops at a cemetery and the park for Beignets. It’s a good 3 hours but goes by fast. Bikes are really comfortable and he is very aware of keeping the group moving and safe and even answering questions.
This was my first visit to the city and I would go back to this family owned company again for another tour if I get back. Look them up and book, before his adorable niece realizes he’s not a rock star outside of NOLA!

I am a little shocked by the comments of the owner of this business Ryan B. I do not take it well when someone questions my integrity. So I will address his comments one-​by-​one:
–Please give us more information about your tour that you took so we can verify your complaints.
Ok, see below
–Which tour did you take?
Mardi Gras, Mansions & Movie Stars (The Garden District)
–Who was your tour guide?
I don’t remember his name
–When did you take this tour — date & AM or PM?
Monday, January 19, 2015 at 1:15pm
— Did you book online?
Yes
–If so, did you read your reservation email informing you that we only offer coaster brake bicycles without hand brakes? In the email, this information is written in bold twice to ensure that all of riders know this important piece of information.
I did read that.
–Did you know that nearly all bike tour companies operating in New Orleans use coaster brake cruisers with no hand brakes?
The issue wasn’t the cruisers, it was the lack of safety by the tourguide. I mentioned that the riders weren’t familiar with cruisers just to point out that safety should have been more of a priority given that we weren’t expert cruiser riders
–I have a hard time believing that one of our guides didn’t want to do his job.
–Truthfully, your entire review seems contrived; the above scenarios that you pose are highly unlikely.
Well I can see how great an owner of a business you are if you claim that any complaints are contrived. Where do you get off making this type of statement? I absolutely was on this tour and me and my two friends all felt the same way about this. i also have the receipt online, so you really shouldn’t be questioning whether I was actually on this tour, I can easily post that photo of the confirmation online.
–Just think, if you would have taken the time to READ our website or your email as most everyone does (you had multiple chances to read the details but failed to do so), this situation could have been avoided.
Just think, if you would take the time to READ my review then you would realize that my issue wasn’t the cruisers, but the attitude of your tourguide and the fact that he failed to obey simple traffic rules. However, given your attitude, I’m not surprised that you don’t see anything the tourguide did as a problem.
–Judging by the reviews that you’ve left for other companies on Unilocal,you’re a difficult individual to please. It’s apparent that you like to complain and you use review sites like this one to vent your unhappy disposition with the world.
Judging by this comment, it’s apparent that you are an asshole and that you are unwilling to hear or acknowledge any criticism whatsoever. Do you pay your friends to write good reviews for you? You really can’t handle some criticism from a person on your tour.
–Why not show the face of the person who hasn’t much good to say? Using a shadow of yourself for your profile pic speaks volumes about who you are. It’s so easy to hide in the shadows and drop bad mouth people isn’t it? You have my sympathy ML K aka «dim.» — What an alias, ha!
Seriously, you’re gonna get personal about this? Should I start personally insulting you? Do you really want an Amy B. Situation? What is wrong with you? Whether or not I post a photo is not the issue here. The issue is your absurd response to a review of your company. Honestly, this is beyond me to comprehend? Do you have no people skills whatsoever? I’ll admit that I have high standards and can be critical. But I leave plenty of good reviews too. My reviews are an honest assessment of my experiences. You however should not be in a customer service oriented business if you turn this nasty and personal when confronted with some criticism.
–With hopes that you’ll pay more attention to the details of your future tour bookings,
Ryan Bergeron Owner — FreeWheelin’ Bike Tour
WIth hopes that you will move on and stop harassing people with legitimate feedback about your tour.

Very efficient, very organized bicycle tour company. The bikes all seemed almost new, and were in perfect shape, with a basket on front to carry our miscellaneous items. The tour group consisted of 12 riders and one guide — from what I could tell from their webpage, that is the largest group they allow.
I like how they measured each and every person on their bike so as to ensure the seat was at a good height for a comfortable ride. We were also given a bottle of water to stow in our basket.
It is a family business, and our tour guide, Teddy, is a 5^th generation New Orlean’s native. He has a passion for the city, for it’s history, and for the locals which is very apparent in his talks and comments along the way. Throughout the tour he called greetings to friends, and had us ring our bike bells to say ‘hello’ at certain businesses.
We had gone on a bike tour with another company previously in NOLA, and that one was less riding with longer stops. This one seemed like a better combo of riding and exploring and stops, which I enjoyed.
We got to take a break at Teddy’s favorite beignet place, Morning Call, and while the park it is in is excellent (and I wish we had taken ten minutes to walk through the sculpture garden there) the beignets were NOT as good as Café du Monde, and the service there was scary bad.
Other than the beignet glitch, though, a good time was had by all, and I highly recommend doing a bike tour with FreeWheelin’.