We travel with bicycles and had brought our folding travel bikes on this trip. The location turned out to be awesome for cycling in the mountains. We rode every day right from the door and quickly got onto traffic free paved mountain roads with substantial climbing. You can cycle through the Tijuca national park and have many vistas seeing Rio and the Redeemer from different angles as you pedal. We went to Vista Chinese and down from there to Ipanema beach by bicycle and took uber back after hanging by the beach for a while. We used Uber alot even though we had a car. it was very cheap (less than R20 to ipanema or copacabana). Once when we summoned an uber for a pickup to go to copacabana, a couple of drivers refused the ride but after retry, we got a ride in less than 10 min. the bus is also available, but we found Uber to be the bomb for us.