Berlin Sports & Outdoors Tips by matcrazy1 Top 5 Page for this destination

Berlin by bicycle

Excuse, I didn't ride a bicycle in Berlin, I was walking, using public transportation and at the end my car. But I noticed quite many locals on bicycles riding on the streets, bicycle tracks and empty walkways despite it was... cold February. There were quite many bicycle tracks marked with the blue bicycle traffic sign around city.

My top 5 reasons to use bicycle in Berlin (when it gets warmer):
1. it's healthy,
2. large distances from one point of tourist interest to next one,
3. Berlin is a flat city,
4. it seems to be inexpensive,
5. lack of parking places for cars, easy traffic as for 3.5 mln city.

My top 3 reasons not to use bicycle in Berlin:
1. public transportation is very efficient and faster,
2. risk of bicycle theft (very low, I think but... who knows) which means for me additional cost of insurance against it,
3. rains, sunny weather, even in summer can always change.

Equipment: I plan next trip to Berlin when it gets warmer therefore I asked about possibilities of sigtseeing by bicycle. I was told that there were numerous bicycle renters and they used to be very inexpensive in summer.
More: check the link below, please. They say that it costs only 6 eurocents per hour (by the Deutsche Bahn = German Railway Company). Difficult to believe!

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Theme: Biking

Skateboarding Sports Watching Review

On a wide and a little inclined walkway south of the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin's Kulturforum I noticed two guys, one young (on my picture) and the second one at my age with skateboards. They noticed my camera and... stopped skateboarding. But I didn't stop to take a picture and I had 7 x optical zoom :-). Was skateboarding forbidden at that place or what? There were no pedestrians around.

Equipment: Surely a skateboard.

Address: Scharounstraße, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten

Directions: Walkway south of the Philharmonic Hall at Scharounstraße next to parking lot at Matthäikirchplatz.
U-/S-Bahn Potsdamer Platz
U1 Kurfürstenstraße
U2 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park
Bus 129/148/200/248/348.

Theme: Sports Watching

Parking of bicycles

There were not very many parking lots for bicycles in Berlin's downtown. Usually they were located either among apartment buildings, and in front of larger department stores or some popular among locals other stores. Some bicycle owners used to lock their bicycles to the fence by the entrance to the underground U-bahn stations.

Theme: Biking