Our Mission
We imagine Wellington’s transport to be fully sustainable, accessible and healthy. We’re on a mission to enable memorable biking experiences so you can see this city – and how you get around it – from a whole new perspective.
Since 2015 we’ve been Wellington’s bike hire hub, conveniently based on the city’s central waterfront. We have a huge selection of regular and electric bikes for hourly hire.
In 2020, we decided to shake up the way people get to work by launching Aotearoa’s first truly subscription based electric bike programme. Subscribe to Ride eliminates the need for personal eBike ownership and does away with traffic jams at the same time.
Since the beginning of providing tours, visitors of Wellington have loved our Electric Bays Tour. An eBike tour is the best way to see Wellington and its surrounding bays. You get to experience Wellington from a local’s view point.
As proven by over 650 excellent reviews on Trip Advisor, we do our very best to show visitors a great time in Wellington.
Community and Environment
Electric bikes offer a revolutionary transport alternative to driving as we respond to the climate crisis. We promote the use of electric bikes as a transport method and have encouraged many people to swap out their car journeys for bike journeys. Visitors from near and far as well as locals have made the switch after joining us on an electric bike tour or after hiring an eBike from us.
We choose to use quality products that last for many years. Eventually, when a product we sell reaches the end of it’s life, we encourage people to return it to us so we can re-use or recycle it to our best ability. In particular, we have partners in NZ who re-use the parts of lithium batteries and we donate any bike parts that are still able to be used to Mechanic Tempest.
By being a member of the Sustainable Business Network, we gain inspiration and support to do better as a business. We are also a member of Cycling Action Network who advocates nationwide to make biking safer for everyone. We support numerous social causes through the donation of vouchers that can be given as prizes or raffles (if you’d like to request support, you can email us on info@switchedonbikes.co.nz).
We support Trails Wellington, by donating $5 from every half or full day mountain bike hire to support their work building and maintaining the awesome mountain bike trails in Wellington.
Tiaki Promise
We are proud upholders of the #TIAKIPROMISE. We recognise our duty as an operator in Aotearoa to act responsibly in the way that we treat the whenua (the land), taiao (nature/environment) and our tāngata (people). These principals of tiaki inform how we work and interact everyday. You can learn more about the #tiakipromise here.
Our Team