RideTHISbike

Great bikes, great value. Larry and Josh gave us excellent tips for exploring the city.

Larry was great. We needed a flat fix for my daughters mountain buggy, and it was fix in no time. Ride This Bike was just a few steps from our hotel. Highly recommended.

Fantastic way to spend your day — bike around the city & learn historical facts including info about Katrina. Larry, the owner is awesome & takes pride in making sure to provide a great tour & teach visitors a about the rich culture NOLA has, including the best place to grab a burger!!! Highly recommended!!!

Great speedy service! My rear wheel locked up on me during my commute and I limped it to the office. I swung over during lunch and they fixed it up while I waited!
Update:
Call ahead; they sometimes close early!

We had a great time renting for the afternoon and got to see parts of town we never would have gotten to walking. The bike rental price is definitely reasonable, full day and 4 hour rates. The bikes were OK, not the best shape, some squeaking and rattling, especially on the cruisers.
And we got some recommendations for music around town later in the evening. They are very interested in making sure your visit to New Orleans is complete, even the parts that don’t involve a bike at all!
–1 star:
Apparently they usually warn people (they didn’t warn us), but if you ride with the keys in the locks how they give them, the keys will fall out and be lost forever. So as soon as you get your bike, grab the key and stick it in a pocket. The –1 star is for the $ 35 key fee even though they didn’t tell us about this at all. Totally understandable that we’re responsible for lost stuff, but they made it sounds like we should have known to take the keys out.

Nice owner and great suggestions to get a mr bike for the bumps in the road and a great suggestion and route to see the Garden district of New Orleans. I have always loved NO for the music scene but now love it for the «eye candy» that is the quaint architecture and colors of the garden district. I think this owner would benefit from an after hours pick up protocol. I would love to cruise around during the no so busy times to Frenchman street and the quarter. Overall great job. Thanks. I rode four hours and went around Audubon park and then hit the levee. Lunch at the river shack was cool too
Cheers

My friends and I rented some bikes for the afternoon while we were visiting New Orleans and this place was great! We got locks, helmets, and the bikes for around $ 20. They even gave us a bike map and helped us figure out our best routes to get there, and told us possible dangerous intersections to watch out for cars merging on. When I got a giant blowout flat from running over a wire on our way back to the shop, we called them and let them know what had happened and we were not charged any late fees. Super friendly, and super gracious. I will certainly rent bikes from RideTHISBike again on my next visit to NOLA!

Great little bike shop specializing in rentals and niche bikes like the travel friendly Brompton. They offer great prices on bikes in the quarter especially for Mardi Gras. I ride in the krewe of Chewbacchus and was able to rent a great trike to ride in the parade for a great price. Go see my friend Don Asay for a great deal.

When I came down to New Orleans this time iI decided to actually buy a bike on Craigslist for the week. I stopped in the shop to have a tech raise the seat as I had zero tools. I told him I would probably give it to him at the end of the week. They helped me make a few adjustments, rented me a lock and I was on my way. Considering I was not actually renting a bike this year, they were super cool.
A few days later I dropped off the bike. He said he thought it was probably stolen from a fleet and that he may be able to find the rightful owners. I figure we both get some karma points out of this one and left it in his hands.

Awesome place. Larry setup a couple of routes for my wife and I. We decided on the long route all the way to Lake Pontchartrain! Larry’s route was perfect. Had a late lunch on the way back.
This is a great non touristy way to see New Orleans. I think it is also the most efficient. No way would I drive around town! We passed cars all day, especially in the French Quarter.

Great place to rent a bike. Very friendly and informative proprieter. Gave us a bicycle map and highlited places to go.

Larry is a good guy. I feel awful about the situation I caused him, but he handled it in a professional and good business-​person manner. I spent a lot of time booking a bike tour that was bring your own bike. He was patient on the phone. He even offered to open his bike shop early. Three days prior to my bike tour, the tour company cancelled and I no longer had need for the rented bike. Larry was kind enough to waive the fee given the uncontrollable circumstance. This was not something he had to do, but he was kind enough to do it. I hope I can still rent a bike sometime in New Orleans from this excellent company!

This place is awesome. Larry and Mike couldn’t be nicer. We rented bikes and rode all around the city. They were in great condition mostly cruiser type bikes.
Mike spent so much time with us going over the map and told us all the best routes and things to see.
New Orleans is a great place to explore on bike. Definitely go up to city park.

Easy to find on foot. Solid rates and even more solid bicycles. Larry was very helpful, laid back and answered all my questions. Bicycles are the way to go in New Orleans.

I found this place on Unilocal which is conveniently located in the heart of French Quarters. I had few hours and wanted to make the best out of it. Larry was very helpful and took his time to help me select the most efficient route along with a proper bike! I was very happy and got to see a lot of things which I wouldn’t get too. Going over the local traffic regulations was a nice touch as well.
He is also very knowledgeable and informative and when I came back he went over pros and cons of certain bikes.
All the bikes are in a great condition and he also provided the lock.

I travel and rent bikes a lot in different cities so i know how important it is to find the person that is in business because they love cycling not just to try and separate tourists from their money. Larry, a Crescent City native, at RideTHISbike is that guy in New Orleans. I reviewed every place and visited several before my wife and I rented bikes for a week. His bikes are new and in great repair. They are higher quality and lighter than other places. He provided a bike map and recommended where and where not to ride. We comfortably road all over the city and along the lake and up the river trail to Kenner and back. This is definately the way to experience this great city.
If you want a memorable experience exploring the neighborhoods of N.O. go see Larry-​he will set you up and give you a good deal.

Nice location and easy to get to. If you have an afternoon or even a full day to spend in New Orleans, then bike transportation is surely the best way to go. Small storefront so there’s not a whole lot of room for customers to mill about while waiting for the staff to get riders bikes and out on the roads. $ 17 each rider gets you 3 to 3.5 hours on the bike.
Pros. Multiple bike options at varying price points. Friendly staff, albeit only one staff member, working. You have the option to get a helmet, but there are no helmet laws in the Big Easy, and they shop supplies you with a high quality lock that will secure 2 or 3 bikes, or multiple bike locks, depending on the size of your group. 3 in our group got the matte black with bronze rim beach cruisers – very comfortable ride and easy to handle on the slick roads in and around the French Quarter.
Cons. Only one staff member working… from the moment we walked in the door it took around 20 minutes for him to assist another couple ahead of us and for us to get our bikes and get on our way. One bike thew its chain twice and we had to go back to get a replacement … That sucked a whole lot as we were almost a mile from the shop and had to walk the inoperable bike back… plus it cut into our rental time so that 3 hour rental really became 2.5 hours.
Cash seemed to be the preferred method of payment, but they do have the ability to take credit card payment with a $ 2 surcharge. We opted for the credit card option since there were 3 riders in our group (initially – our 4^th rider met up when we had to replace the broken bike), so we split that fee 3 ways.
Would I give this shop a 2^nd chance; certainly because riding will get you around the city a whole lot faster than walking and will be cheaper than taxi cabs in the long run. But I would also check out some of the other bike rental locations to see about getting a better deal or more time for the cost.

Rented two beach cruisers and we received compliments on them all day. The owner was awesome and outlined some great routes on a map. We really enjoyed having bikes to get around and this was a great place to get them!

My girlfriend and I rented 2 bikes from Larry back on Labor Day 2012. I’ll put it this way: Our experience there was good enough that over 4 months later when I stumbled across his card, it made me stop and post my first review ever.
Touring NOLA by bike was a fantastic change of pace and thanks to invaluable route advice we got to see parts of the city that I had previously ignored on several prior trips. Larry really seemed to listen to our time constraints and interests and made fantastic recommendations. Plus he took good care to make sure the bikes were sized well for us and we were comfortable with them. I would absolutely recommend any tourist use this service and will definitely be back to try some of the other routes on my next visit.

This is the place to rent a one-​speed ultra-​comfortable Cadillac Eldorado cruiser (actually made by GM!) from Larry.
We did on 1÷5÷12 and we rode these plush buckets up Esplanade to Lake Pontchartrain and back and all over the French Qtr, Marigny and over to the Garden District. Not a hill in the city, so this is all you really need. We were not even sore the next day, although that could be cause of those Bloody Marys with pickled Okra and string-​beans…