Tours
See Austin at three miles an hour, with somebody who lives here.
A bus goes past things. A walking tour wears you out in an hour. A pedicab is the speed where you can actually look at a building, stop for a photo, and change your mind about where you're going next.
We run three tours — murals, pubs and breweries, and historic downtown — plus custom routes for people who already know what they want to see. All of them are private and small on purpose. You get a driver who's talking to you, not a headset and thirty strangers.
The bikes are motorized, which matters more than it sounds. A tour isn't limited to whatever falls inside a tired rider's range, so we can get from South Congress across the river to the East Side without turning the afternoon into a death march.
Everything below is real, and it's worth seeing whether you book with us or not. If you'd rather do it yourself, take the list and go — the addresses are all there.
See where the cabs actually go — the routes and the walls, on Instagram
The mural tour
The walls people actually photograph.
Austin's murals are scattered across neighbourhoods that are annoying to connect on foot and impossible to park between. This is the tour the pedicab was made for.
Greetings from Austin
The giant vintage-postcard mural on the side of Roadhouse Relics. It's the most photographed wall in the city and there's usually a short queue of people waiting their turn — go early in the day if you want it to yourself.
I love you so much
Small, green, scrawled on the side of Jo's Coffee, and somehow the single most-posted image in Austin. Get an iced coffee while you're there; the patio is one of the better people-watching spots on SoCo.
Hi, How Are You
Daniel Johnston's frog, painted in 1993 and saved from demolition by people who cared a great deal. If you only take away one piece of Austin's music history, make it this one — it's a better story than most of what's on Sixth Street.
You're My Butter Half
East Side, bright, and far enough off the tourist track that you can usually walk straight up to it. This is the one that convinces people the East Side is worth the ride.
Willie for President
Everyone will tell you it is on the side of Guero's, and half of them are wrong — it is on the block, and the buildings there sit close together. Either way, Guero's is where you should eat if the tour runs into lunch. Sit in the oak garden out back.
The pub & brewery tour
Somebody else pedals, which is the entire idea.
East Sixth has good breweries within a few blocks of each other, and the stretch between them is exactly the distance nobody wants to walk in August. We'll build the route around what you're drinking.
A former garage with a big shaded courtyard, good beer and tacos in the same building — which makes it the sensible first or last stop, depending on how the afternoon is going.
Two blocks from Lazarus, so this pairing is essentially free. Taproom at the front, patio out back, and one of the easier places on the East Side to land a group without booking.
West side of downtown, so we'd normally make this its own leg rather than tack it onto an East Sixth run. Worth it — the food is genuinely good, which is not a given at a brewery.
Rainey Street
A row of old bungalows turned into bars, with food trucks in the yards. Compact enough to walk once you're there — the pedicab's job is getting you in and, more to the point, getting you home.
The one piece of advice we give every group: don't try to do six stops. Three is a good afternoon. Four is a great one. Six is a story you won't remember.
The historic tour
Downtown, before it was a skyline.
The old buildings sit within about a mile of each other, which is a perfect pedicab loop and a miserable walk in Texas heat.
Sunset red granite, and taller than the US Capitol — a fact Texans will tell you within ninety seconds of meeting you. Free to walk into, and the grounds are the best place downtown to see it framed properly.
Built in 1886 by a cattle baron and still the grandest room downtown. Walk through the lobby even if you're not staying — nobody will stop you, and the bar is a good place to end a tour.
Open since 1915, and the marquee on Congress is one of the few pieces of old downtown the glass towers haven't swallowed. Check what's actually on before you plan around it — the building has been through restoration work, and the Stateside next door picks up a lot of the programme.
The Congress Avenue bats
Something like a million and a half Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge from spring through autumn and pour out at dusk. It is the best free thing in Austin. Timing is everything — ask and we'll aim the tour to put you there just before sundown.
Custom private tours
Or just tell us what you're in the mood for.
Plenty of our best rides don't fit any of the three routes. A first-night-in-town orientation loop. Photos at four specific walls for somebody's engagement shoot. Grandparents who want to see the Capitol and then sit down somewhere with air conditioning.
Tell us the group size, roughly how long you've got, and what you care about seeing. We'll put the route together — and say so if what you're describing would be better done some other way.
What it costs
Our prices, on the page.
Most pedicab companies in Austin make you call to find out. We'd rather you knew first. Prices are for the whole cab, not per person.
Same-day is often possible — call and ask. Custom routes are priced at the hourly rates above. Bigger groups just mean more cabs; we run 25 for rides, so party size is rarely the problem.
Book a ride
Tell us your date.
Give us the date, the group size and roughly what you'd like to do, and we'll put a plan together. Same-day is often possible — for that, call.
Book a tour.
Give us your dates, your group size and what you'd like to see. Same-day is often possible — just call.