Create your own bike bus

A bike bus is a group of children and adults who cycle to school together along a set route. It runs to a timetable like a bus, picking up riders at stops along the way, with adults riding at the front and back.

Create a bike bus, drop the school and your pick-up stops on the map, set the time, and share the link with families. Cyclemate plans the route between the stops, shows when the bus reaches each one, and collects RSVPs so you know who is riding.

Yes. Creating a bike bus is free for organisers and for every family that joins, including the event page, RSVPs and turn-by-turn navigation.

The bike bus page lists every stop with an estimated arrival time, worked out from the route and your start time. Families open the link, find their stop and see when to be there.

SuperSafe routing chooses protected cycleways, low traffic neighbourhoods and quiet streets between your stops, and avoids busy main roads where it can. It is a starting point, so ride the route yourself before the first bus and adjust the stops if a junction feels wrong for young riders.

No. The bike bus page opens in any web browser, where parents can see the route, the stop times and RSVP. Adults who want turn-by-turn directions on the ride use the free Cyclemate app on iPhone or Android.

Yes. Add your own questions to the ride, mark any of them as required, and riders answer when they RSVP. Only you, the host, can see the answers.

You can host in London, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Those are the cities with a SuperSafe routing model, so the route between your stops is planned the same way as every other Cyclemate route.