---
author: Jan Brennenstuhl
categories:
- Guerrilla Art
cover:
  alt: Free Urban Exercise Bike
  height: 720
  src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/free-urban-exercise-bike/florian-riviere-exercise-bike.jpg
  width: 1200
credit: ''
date: '2012-07-17T09:41:02Z'
description: 'French urban hacktivist Florian Rivière just came up with a new urban hack: He shows a way to create free urban exercise bikes! Simply genius and again a nice way to delight people with public space tools...'
tags:
- Urban Hacking
- Florian Rivière
- European Urbanism
- Urban Interaction
title: Free Urban Exercise Bike
url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/free-urban-exercise-bike/
---

# Free Urban Exercise Bike

[**Florian Rivière**](/florian-riviere/) is an urban hacktivist. Some would call him a genius, I would describe him as a man with an eye for the small things in urban life. One of his latest small urban projects was the creation of a free urban exercise bike in Paris...

Take one of those circulating city bikes, swing out the kickstand and you have your personal urban exercise bike! That’s it, so simple but nevertheless people are still paying for biking sessions in their local fitness studio. An absurdity.

Similar to his popular [advertising carousel](/advertising-carousel-florian-riviere-berlin/), Florian again created a way to delight other people in public space.

Not sure if the *Call a Bike* bikes in Berlin also have such a nice kickstand, but if you could check this out for your city, we could collect these info in the comments and start organizing free public biking sessions worldwide!

Thanks Mr. Rivière. And now go start your daily bike training!
Via [rebelart.net](http://rebelart.net/florian-riviere/0013626/).