Free Public Bike Pumps in Mexico

Cities with the most public bike pumps

1. 1Puebla65 stations · 65 repair
2. 2Mexico City23 stations · 23 repair
3. 3Guadalajara14 stations · 14 repair
4. 4Querétaro10 stations · 10 repair
5. 5Huejotzingo6 stations · 6 repair
6. 6Playa del Carmen5 stations · 5 repair

Bike pumps in Mexico at a glance

OpenStreetMap lists 216 public stations in Mexico in 53 towns and cities: 7 compressed-air pumps and 209 bike repair stations, 19 of which have a built-in pump. In total, 26 stations let you inflate a tire.

Most stations in Mexico are bike repair stands: a post with a hand or foot pump, often with tools on steel cables. They take a little longer than a compressor, but they are usually free and in public space.

Puebla alone accounts for 30% of all stations. 59% of the stations are in the 7 cities with their own page below; the other 88 are spread across smaller towns.

Free or paid?

12 stations in Mexico carry fee information: 5 are marked free and 7 paid (42% free). Many air pumps here are coin-operated, so carry change or use a repair stand instead. Stations without a fee tag are not necessarily free.

Valves, gauges and opening hours

Valve types are rarely tagged in Mexico. Most new repair stands have a dual head for Presta and Schrader; compressor pumps often fit only Schrader, so a Presta adapter helps.

Of all stations, 5 are covered.

7 stations are open 24/7 and 77 have opening hours listed. Pumps inside shops or fuel stations follow their opening hours.

Example stations in Mexico

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

• Novedades Nora

  Emiliano Zapata, San Pedro Del Rosal

  Repair station with pump · Mo-Fr 09:00-21:00, Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 14:00-20:00

• Poray

  Avenida Doctor Nicolás León, Colonia Kennedy, Mexico City

  Repair station with pump · paid · Mo-Sa 08:00-20:00

• BRUNO'S BIKE

  Avenida Salvador López Chávez, Unidad Modelo, Guadalajara

  Repair station · paid · Mo-Fr 10:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 09:00-14:00

• Dero

  Avenida Planetario, Fraccionamiento Parque Tangamanga II, San Luis Potosí City

  Repair station with pump · 24/7

• Por confirmar si el establecimiento está en funciones

  Calle Mayas, Puebla

  Repair station · paid · 11:00-18:00

• Bici-tequix San Juan 4-2, Cuatro Caminos

  Avenida San Juan, San Juan Cuautlancingo

  Repair station · 10:00-20:00

• Bicicletas del Centro: Calle Altamirano 108-Oriente, Col Domingo Arenas, 74000 San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Pue. Tel: 522484829429

  Avenida Libertad Sur, Texmelucan

  Repair station · L-V. 10:00-20:00/D. 10:00-14:00

• Costco

  Avenida Reforma, Ensenada

  Compressed air

Who runs the stations

The most common operators and brands in Mexico in OpenStreetMap:

• Por confirmar si el establecimiento está en funciones60
• Dero4
• Costco3

More towns with stations

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

• Texmelucan11
• Atlixco8
• Valladolid5
• Acatlán de Osorio3
• Cholula3
• Ciudad Juárez3
• Ensenada3
• Oaxaca City3
• San Juan Cuautlancingo3
• Santa María Coronango3
• Cosoleacaque2
• Lerma2
• San Francisco Totimehuacán2
• San Rafael Tlanalapan2
• Zapopan2

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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