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Bike sharing (BikeMi and the free-floating apps)

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Updated 18 days ago

How to ride

1. 1

   Decide which system you want

   There are two - BikeMi, which you dock at a station, and the free-floating apps Dott, Lime and RideMovi.
2. 2

   Sign up to BikeMi with a credit card

   Register in the official app or on the site - it takes a credit or prepaid card only, and debit cards are refused.
3. 3

   Find a station in the app and unlock

   Turn on location and pick a dock with bikes in it, or scan the QR code on the frame to unlock.
4. 4

   Dock it again within two hours

   A BikeMi bike goes back into a station: push it in until the dock light is solid green, then wait for the app to confirm.
5. 5

   Free-floating bikes go in the marked bays

   With the free-floating apps you can only start and end a ride in bays marked for bicycles and motorcycles.
6. 6

   Bring a helmet if you rent a scooter

   Every e-scooter rider must wear a helmet whatever their age, and on pavements you push it by hand.

Fares

Estimates use exchange rates as of September 5, 2026

Payment

Phone wallet

Debit cards are refused

The card is registered in the app and billed later; debit cards are not accepted

IC card

Annual subscribers only - an ATM travel card can act as the unlocking key

App tickets

LimeDottBikeMiRideMovi

In the wallet: Subscribing, unlocking and paying all happen inside the app

Paper tickets

ATM tickets and day passes do not unlock a bike

Cash

There is no way to hire with cash

Tap for where to get the app

Quick facts

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Heads-up

• A BikeMi ride stops paying off after two hours

  You may keep the same bike for two hours. Go over and you not only pay the surcharge - 2 EUR an hour for a plain bike, 4 for an electric one - but also collect a penalty point; three of them block the account automatically and the subscription fee is not refunded. Fail to return the bike within 24 hours and the charge is 150 EUR, and a bike treated as stolen can be billed at up to 500 EUR for a plain one, 1,675 for an e-bike and 2,000 for one with a child seat. If you want a longer outing, dock the bike before the two hours are up, wait five minutes and take another one.

• Helmets are compulsory on e-scooters

  The road code amendment that took effect on 14 December 2024 requires every e-scooter rider, at any age, to wear an approved helmet. Before that only under-18s had to, so travel write-ups from a few years ago - and habits from other countries - are no guide. The duty falls on the rider, and hiring a shared scooter does not lift it. Nothing official says the operators hand helmets out, so if you plan to ride one, bring your own. Riding on the pavement is banned outright; there you push the scooter by hand. You may only ride on urban roads with a speed limit of 50 km/h or less. Milan's own guidance gives 20 km/h as the ceiling and 6 km/h in pedestrian areas - not a local surcharge on the rules, but the national ones restated by the city.

• Free-floating still means parking in a marked bay

  Free-floating does not mean you can leave it anywhere. Under the city's rules a shared scooter may only be picked up and dropped off in the areas drawn in each operator's app, and those areas are the ones set aside for parking bicycles and motorcycles. Free-floating bikes are likewise confined to the designated bays, though no primary source we could reach spells out which kinds of bay those are. National law separately bans parking a scooter on the pavement, unless the council has designated a bay there. End a ride outside a bay and the operator charges extra; worse, if the vehicle is removed for a road-code offence, the fine and the removal and storage costs come back to you with an admin fee on top. No Milan figures are published, so look at the operating area and the bays in the app before you set off.

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