Free Public Bike Pumps in Brazil

Cities with the most public bike pumps

1. 1Fortaleza11 stations · 5 repair
2. 2São Paulo11 stations · 10 repair
3. 3Salvador10 stations · 3 repair

Bike pumps in Brazil at a glance

OpenStreetMap lists 329 public stations in Brazil in 137 towns and cities: 205 compressed-air pumps and 124 bike repair stations, 29 of which have a built-in pump. In total, 234 stations let you inflate a tire.

Repair stands with hand pumps and compressed-air pumps are roughly balanced in Brazil, so larger towns usually offer both.

10% of the stations are in the 3 cities with their own page below; the other 297 are spread across smaller towns.

Free or paid?

91 stations in Brazil carry fee information: 85 are marked free and 6 paid (93% free). So the vast majority of mapped pumps cost nothing. Stations without a fee tag are not necessarily free.

Valves, gauges and opening hours

10 stations list their valve types: 2 fit Presta and 10 fit Schrader valves. Riders with Presta valves should carry a small adapter.

Of all stations, 17 are covered and 17 are lit at night.

16 stations are open 24/7 and 31 have opening hours listed. Pumps inside shops or fuel stations follow their opening hours.

Example stations in Brazil

A selection of well-documented stations from different towns. The live map shows all of them with directions.

• Auto Posto DDM Ltda

  Rua Santa Cruz, São João do Oeste

  Compressed air · free · 24/7 · covered

• Totem de Apoio ao Ciclista

  Rua Walfrido Belão, Piraquara

  Repair station with pump · free · 24/7 · Presta

• Bauer Postos

  Avenida São Pedro - E 2080, São Cristóvão, Chapecó

  Compressed air · free

• Bicicletaria Mapuche

  Rua Prudente de Moraes 279, Recife

  Repair station with pump · paid · Comercial

• Maxx Postos de Cumbustível e Lubrificates

  BR-030, Café Baiano, Caetité

  Compressed air · free · 24/7

• Prefeitura do Município de Santos

  Ciclovia Claudio Clarindo, Ponta da Praia, Santos

  Repair station with pump · free · 24/7

• Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza

  Praça Portugal 908, Aldeota, Fortaleza

  Repair station with pump · free · 24/7

• Auto Posto Guizzo

  Avenida Pedro Américo 1237, Jardim Stetel, Santo André

  Compressed air · free · covered

More towns with stations

These places have stations but no page of their own yet. You find them on the live map:

• Natal9
• Boa Vista7
• Ceará-Mirim7
• Brasília6
• Chapecó6
• Niterói6
• Pomerode6
• Santos6
• Blumenau5
• Florianópolis5
• Porto Alegre5
• Teresina5
• Zona Urbana5
• Araçatuba4
• Araraquara4
• Barra dos Coqueiros4

How public bike pumps work

Public bike pumps come in two kinds. Bike repair stations are posts with a hand or floor pump, often with tools on steel cables and a hanger to hold the bike. They stand in parks, at train stations, on campuses and along cycle routes, and they almost never cost anything. Compressed-air pumps are electric compressors, mostly at gas stations, car washes and bike shops. They fill a tire in seconds but are built for car tires.

Before you pump, check your valve. Most repair-station heads fit both Presta and Schrader; gas-station air chucks fit Schrader only, so a small Presta adapter is worth carrying. With a compressor, add air in short bursts and check the pressure, because a narrow road tire can burst well below car pressure. The right pressure is printed on the tire sidewall.

All stations on this site come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers add and update them. If a pump is broken, gone or missing from the map, fix it directly in OpenStreetMap or use the report button on the map. The change appears here after the next data update.

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