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Bachelorette parties
The whole group goes together instead of splitting across four Ubers. Sashes, decorations and cake all welcome.
How it works →
Houston's 16-person party bike, one driver, three bar stops, two hours. You bring the cooler and the playlist — we handle the pedaling, the parking and the part where nobody has to be the designated driver.
The Bike Bar is about the size of a cargo van and moves at a walking-jog pace, which is exactly fast enough to feel like you're getting away with something.
Ten people pedal, five ride the lounge bench, and one person stands in the middle working the bar. Everybody swaps around. There's an electric motor helping the whole time, so the hills and the last thirty minutes don't turn into a workout — a common thing to worry about and a mostly unnecessary one.
Your driver steers, handles traffic, keeps the route on schedule, and knows which bars will actually have room for sixteen people on a Saturday at nine. The stereo takes any Bluetooth device. Hand it over, or let the driver run it.
We ride Midtown, Downtown and EaDo, and run a seasonal lights route through River Oaks — all four routes are here.
Most of our calendar is bachelorette parties and birthdays. The rest is companies who figured out this beats another catered conference room.
The whole group goes together instead of splitting across four Ubers. Sashes, decorations and cake all welcome.
How it works →
Two hours, three bars, nobody driving. The 8:00 and 10:30 rides are the ones to look at.
How it works →
A vehicle with your name in balloons on it. Afternoon slots are quieter and $100 cheaper.
How it works →
You can't pedal a sixteen-person bike while checking email, which is most of the point.
How it works →Pick a date and one of five daily start times. Pay in full or hold it with a $160 deposit.
Meet 15 minutes early with your cooler, ice, snacks and playlist. Full packing list.
Back at the same spot, right on time, with your cars exactly where you left them.
That's the entire bike for two hours — not per person. Split sixteen ways, a Friday night comes out under $30 each.
Bringing fewer than sixteen? Work out what it costs each →
No group at all? We run mixer tours several days a week where you buy individual seats and ride with whoever else booked. Six-passenger minimum to roll.
Most party bikes in Houston are one franchise pin on a national map. This one isn't.
Travis Stowers has made his living on pedal-powered vehicles for close to twenty years — pedicabs first, in Houston, Indiana and Nashville — and started Houston Bike Bar in 2016. Which is a long way of saying that when something goes sideways on a Saturday, you're talking to the guy whose name is on it, not a call center in another state.
It shows up in small ways. Groups move their date because of weather and we move it. People ask for a bar that isn't on any list and we go there. The route is a suggestion, not a policy.
Yes — that's how it works. Bring a full-size cooler, ice, food, whatever you want. The one hard rule is cans or plastic only. Absolutely no glass. Full packing list here.
Less than you think. There's an electric motor assisting, ten pedal stations, and you can swap onto the lounge bench whenever you want. We top out around 5–8 mph. People who were nervous about this at the start are usually the ones asking to go around the block again.
The price is the same for the bike whether you bring eight or sixteen, so smaller groups just pay more per head. We need a minimum of six or seven pedalers to move at all. If you're under that, look at a mixer tour and buy individual seats instead.
No. All passengers must be 21 or older, no exceptions, and drivers do check. It's an open-container vehicle — there's no version of this where we bend on it.
The bike has a full canopy and we ride rain or shine. We only cancel when it's genuinely unsafe, and then you get a reschedule or store credit. Full weather and cancellation policy here.
Five start times a day across Midtown, Downtown and EaDo. Weekends book out first — especially the 8:00.