text: We just took a cycling vacation to Montreal What a wonderful city So much to do so much to see so much to sample And so bike friendlynnWe planned to ride both the Tour la Nuit a night ride and the Tour de Ille the largest single cycling event in the world about cyclists and we needed bikes nnSo we rented a tandem from Ca Roule which looked good on the website for the la Nuit tour and rented mountain bikes from My Bicyclette for the Ille ride Our rental choices were planned more for our offthebike site seeing itinerary than anything elsennOthers have recommended Ca Roule but I cannot do that Aside from its location beautiful Old Montreal dealing with Ca Roule was a disappointing experience nnFirst it apparently caters exclusively to tourists red flag anyone Then the tandem we got was poorly maintained it had a frayed derailleur cable and half way to the hotel started skipping gears But we rode la Nuit anyway The next day after returning this junker the colleague who checked us in added an extra fee he explained as an additional tax of to our bill nnMy advice Skip Ca Roule take the Metro to LionelGroulx station walk a few blocks past Atwater Market across the blue foot bridge turn right and rent from Dave the owner and a biker at My Bicyclette Then check out beautiful friendly Montreal on a GOOD bike