Hire Bike or Your Own Road Bike on a Cycling Holiday?

Mallorca Is Becoming the Centre of Cycling Holidays in Europe

Demand for bike hire on the Balearic island is steadily growing; its excellent accessibility and year-round ideal climate have been pushing up visitor numbers in the cycling-holiday segment for years.

Cyclists often face the question of whether to bring their own road bike from home or hire a suitable bike on Mallorca.

Hire a Bike or Bring Your Own on Holiday?

Besides the cost of transporting your bike there and back, which, depending on the airline, can be as much as €100 for simply carrying a bike, there's the alternative of hiring a bike locally.

A wide range of bike hire companies is available to choose from, along with an equally broad selection of hire bikes at each station, so much so that finding a suitable substitute for your personal bike can become quite a headache. Carbon or aluminium frame, a stiff frame, Fulcrum wheels, Shimano Ultegra or a Cervélo road bike (Mallorca) are just some of the buzzwords to consider when choosing a hire bike. Whether the hired road bike can then match the riding fun of your own personalised racing machine remains an open question.

From a cost point of view, hiring a bike on Mallorca is certainly cheaper and more practical; Radverleih Mallorca compares the local bike hire companies and so makes it easier to decide when searching for your next cycling holiday.