Mexico City-

Hey great website, i'm unable to give you any info but this guys are biking right now in Mexico, so maybe to contact them would help......www.ridingthespine.com<BR> Good luck Sofia

As far as I know, Mexico City's Metro is off limit to bikes, and even large luggage. I'd suggest you take your question over to the Mexico Branch, find out which route in Mexico City is the best to ride, and avoid. I walked for several miles once to a local subway statio to meet a friend and had no problems, though quite a few stares!

Have fun!

My girlfriend and I rode through Mexico City a few months ago. Our plan was to bus in and out of the city, so as to do minimal riding through town. The plan worked halfway well--putting bikes on buses to go in and out of the DF was easy. We bussed from Toluca to the Observatory (west) station, and then bussed from TAPO (east) to Puebla. The only part of our plan that didn't work so well was that our friends that we were staying with lived in the Tlalpan delegation in the south end of the city. So we ended up riding to and from the terminals from Tlalpan, about 15 km each way!. It was pretty hairy in parts--we didn't have a very detailed street map, so we went along major routes through the city. The traffic is heavy, some streets go under others in tunnels, and we were usually playing leapfrog with busses and taxis who were pulling in and out of traffic along the right hand side of the road. I woudn't say it's impossible to do, but it was pretty unnerving.

I think Chepe is right about the metro and bikes, although I couldn't find corroboration on their website. I think you can take bikes on Metrobus, but the routes for that are pretty limited, so I don't think that will be of much use to you. My recommendation might be to get a decent map of the city (with smaller routes on it) and go for it. If you're riding a loaded bike, people will surely see you, and being seen is 90% of the battle, IMO. In three months riding through Mexico, we never encountered anyone who treated us with any intentional malice on the roads.

Good luck,
Matt

You can take your bus on the metro on Sundays. On that day the city closes down a lot of the major streets so that bikers can have the run of the road.