🚲Mexico City: Sundays are for biking on Reforma

On Sundays, Mexico City closes Paseo de la Reforma to cars, and cyclists, joggers, roller bladers and walkers take over. Here are our favorite ways to enjoy the day.

Paseo de la Reforma is one of Mexico City’s main thoroughfares, and you’ll see a lot of influencers posting videos of themselves biking down the roadway on a Sunday, the breeze blowing through their hair and the sun shining down on them.

“How did they get a bike?” is probably not what you are asking yourself as you watch one of these videos.

But that is what you should be asking yourself, if this is an activity you would like to try.

Here’s the thing: As we discovered with two friends, even though there are probably thousands of people biking on Reforma on any given Sunday, actually renting a bike can be frustrating and time-consuming.

It took our friends about an hour of downloading apps, logging into webpages, and requesting free bikes before they were ready to ride.

It was worth it at the end. We got to be out on bikes in the sunshine, enjoying the day. But we could have gotten started a lot sooner.

Here’s what we learned. Hopefully, these tips will help you get rolling more quickly than we did.