abstract:A bike rental or bike hire business is a bike shop or other business that rents bikes for short periods of time (usually for a few hours) for a fee. Most rentals are provided by bicycle shops as a sideline to their main businesses of sales and service, but some shops specialize in rentals.
In 2008, the non-profit organisation SwitzerlandMobility launched a 19, 000km network of hiking, cycling and canoeing routes that are tightly integrated with rail, bus and ferry services, bikerental stations and overnight accommodations.