Bangkok bike tours without the tourist trail.
Three Bangkok bike tours.
One real Thonburi.
Follow the route, stop by stop.
The Real Bangkok, hour by hour. Every route is a loop — you finish where you started, on flat lanes and canal paths.
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0:00Bike fitting on Krung Thon Buri Rd
Helmet, seat height, a cold water, and a five-minute briefing. You meet your guide and the seven other people you'll spend the morning with.
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0:25Riding through Talat Phlu
Within two turns the traffic is gone. Narrow lanes, laundry overhead, someone's grandmother waving from a doorway, and then the market that has fed this neighbourhood for generations.
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0:55Wat Paknam and the big Buddha
Fifteen minutes off the bikes beneath the giant seated Buddha, beside the glass pagoda — with Wat Khun Chan on the far bank, where the two canals meet. No queue, no ticket booth.
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1:30Wat Nak Prok, then you eat
Whatever's good that day. Your guide orders in Thai, explains what it is, and you sit on a plastic stool like everyone else.
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3:00Back through Wutthakat
Most guests tell us the same thing: they had no idea this part of Bangkok existed. That's the whole point of the ride.
Thonburi isn’t a tourist zone. It’s their neighbourhood.
Bangkok’s first capital sits across the river from the Grand Palace, and most visitors never cross. All four of our guides grew up in these lanes — they are taking you home.
Thonburi · across the river- Coco Lead Guide · Phra Nakhon
Eight years and two thousand guests in. Still loves watching people fall for these backstreets.
- Guitar Senior Guide · Thonburi
Grew up on the same canal streets we cycle every morning. Times the route for the temple light.
- Pokpong Guide · Thonburi
Canal-born. Knows the wooden pier where the old boatmen still gather at dawn.
- Tom Guide · Thonburi
Sports-and-adventure guy leading tours through his own backyard. Finds the bridges maps don't show.
Is this ride for you? +
- you would rather see where people live than where they queue
- you can ride a bike on flat ground — Thonburi has no hills
- you are somewhere between 6 and 75, our youngest and oldest riders
- you came for the Grand Palace and Wat Pho — we do not go there
- you want a fast ride for the exercise; this one stops a lot
- you have never ridden a bike. We cannot teach you on the day.
What guests say about our Bangkok bike tours.
“Fabulous!!! The best way to see and experience the Real Bangkok. Guitar our guide was the best. A must if you are visiting Bangkok!”
“The tour is run by a true local who was born and raised in Thonburi, and it really shows. We explored small alleys, local markets, beautiful temples, and hidden corners that we would never have found by ourselves.”
“Coco was a brilliant guide, funny, informative and really looked after us - we felt safer cycling in Bangkok traffic than we sometimes do in England! Canals, quiet backstreet routes, local food market and utterly beautiful temples - fascinating and literally off the beaten path.”