BIKE TOURS
Fat tires. Slow riding.
THE CREOLE TOUR
16 years running, the very original New Orleans bike tour, the story of the 300 years that New Orleans came to be so different from the rest of the United States. Our culture, parades, music, food, love of life...those are the reasons you come visit us, and sharing the history of how we ended up this way, is what we do.
We'll cruise the narrow streets of the Faubourg Marigny and the Bywater, early 19th century suburbs when 'suburb' meant something completely different than it does today. these neighborhoods that run alongside the Mississippi River were originally home to the Creoles and Free People of Color, and later the Irish and Italian immigrants, and even have some important civil rights history. These areas today are both changing and remaining the same, vibrant as ever with freshly renovated homes right next to the still dilapidated and everyone happy with both.
We may wind our way along the oak-lined beauty of Esplanade Avenue, peddling past the old French Creole mansions straddling the Marigny and the French Quarter, and tell the stories of the oldest neighborhoods of free people of color which is still where much of our music and second line parades comes from
The tour is free-flowing and our guides change the routes as they feel by the day and the tour, there is way too much to fit in 3 hours, but the beauty of our neighborhood is, whatever direction we go,there are great stories to tell.
Neighborhoods: Marigny, Bywater
Duration: 3 hours
Times Offered: 7 days a week 10 AM, PM when available.
Length: 5-6 miles
Cost: $55.00 per person
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THE HISTORY OF DRINKING TOUR
From the early days of rum smuggling privateers to the era when the French Quarter was so rambunctious that a modern day Bourbon Street reveler would blush at the city's antics, New Orleans, and it's denizens, have always balanced the sophisticated with the sleazy, It is who we are. We'll share the tales of the saucy and the sauced that are embedded in the city's DNA and make us the city we are.
And just as our tales are never dry, neither shall this tour be.
You'll taste the drinks that made us famous at various neighborhood spots, from a locally brewed beer on the Mississippi River to our oldest New Orleans cocktails at some classic spots. 5 drinks in all, balanced for the perfect morning of storytelling, sociability, sloshiness, and safety.
This tour would be considered our advanced beginner ride if such ratings existed. Comfort on a bike is mandatory.
Neighborhoods: French Quarter & CBD
Duration: 3.5 hours
WHEN AVAILABLE, PLEASE ASK
Times Offered: Weekdays 11 AM
Weekends 10 AM
Length: 5 miles
Cost: $95.00 per person
THE CULINARY TOUR
If we are what we eat, that explains New Orleanians.
Our cuisine is a mix from a three-century-long potluck with every culture coming to New Orleans bringing their own dishes that we have combined into our own uniwuw. Our lives are food; what we ate, where we ate and what are we cooking tonight are our conversations because that is what we live for.
The intersection of flavors from the earliest French settlers, the Africans, both free and slaves, along with our country cousins, the Cajuns, set the early flavors. Later the waves of immigrants such as the Germans and Sicilians and even, since the 1970's, the Vietnamese, also brought their dishes to the table.
Combines, all these varied people, give New Orleans a culture that not only loves great food but lives it, and, has unending choices of it.
We'll bike through the Creole side of town stopping at a 3 of our favorites on each tour. Like most of our rides, the stops vary by the day based on everything from the season, to the day, and even the group...but this is New Orleans, it will all be good and you will leave full.
Neighborhoods: Lots of them
Duration: 3 hours
Monday-Thursday 10:15 AM
Friday-Sunday 9:45 AM
Afternoons when available
Cost: $89.00 per person
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THE 9TH WARD REBIRTH TOUR
Very sadly, Covid has led to the loss of our good friend Ronald Lewis, whose museum, The House of Dance and Feathers was an inspiration for this tour.
We are proud of all that we have accomplished taking so many of y'all down to see what made our culture so strong that rebuilding was the only option.
While we don't bike across the canal anymore, we do keep the same themes and stories with our Creole Histry and Culture tour and would love to share them with you still.