Parking your bike
The type of bike parking facility you should choose depends on how long you need it for. For extra safety, always lock your bike and register it on mybike.belgium.be. You could also opt for a bike theft and damage insurance. In the event your bike gets stolen despite all your precautions, it is important to act quickly.
Parking
Which type of parking facility is best suited to your needs depends on whether you need to park your bike for a short or a long time. For short-term parking near a destination in the city, use the Opens in new windowbike hoops and bike parking facilities that you can find all over the region.
Opens in new windowLocky, the startup that won a Brussels Mobility call for pilot projects, offers a solution for paid parking by means of a particularly robust integrated padlock. The system is equipped with an alarm and users are entitled to a money-back guarantee in case of theft. The Locky system makes use of a mobile application with which you can locate stations, (un)lock the padlock and receive an alert in case of an attempted theft. It constitutes an extra parking option that is a mixture between a bike rack and a secure bike parking.
No space to park your bike at home? Then look for a bike box or bike parking facility in your neighbourhood where you can safely leave your two-wheeler. More info on Opens in new windowcycloparking.brussels.
Lastly, the SNCB-NMBS also offers free-of-charge bike parking facilities in all its stations, and inOpens in new window some stations there is also paid bike parking space available. Cycloparking operates two secure bicycle parking facilities at La Bourse and De Brouckère, where you can park for free for up to four hours.
