By bike

There a multiple bike maintenance and repair possibilities on the VUB campuses.

If you have a flat tyre, you can borrow a repair kit with patches and glue and a bicycle pump from:

• VUB Health Campus: Medical Library
• VUB Main Campus: Student Information, VUB sports complex, and Campus Security

There are bike repair stations with tools for minor repairs on the campuses:

• VUB Health Campus: entrance building A
• VUB Main Campus: Esplanade (in front of Student Information) and at bike shed building K

The Bike Hub at VUB Main Campus is operated by Ateliers de la rue Voot.

Activities:

• Repair your bike under supervision of a professional bike mechanic. Cost: €15 + material costs
• Bike rental for a day, month or year
• Purchase of bike locks, lights...
• Free engraving of your bicycle

Practical:

• Where? Triomflaan 40, 1160 Oudergem (across VUB Main Campus)
• Opening hours? Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 5.30pm, Friday from 4pm to 8pm (alternative opening hours during holidays)

More information? Visit www.voot.be/velo

The Vélofixer, a bike mechanic with a workshop in a cargo bike, visits the VUB Health Campus in Jette three times a year. You only pay the material cost. If you want to be informed of the visits of the Vélofixer: send an email to mobiliteitscoördinator@vub.be.

This map provides an overview bike services in Brussels.

You can easily buy, rent or share a (second-hand) bike in Brussels.

At the GreenTeam's annual VUB Fietsbrocante, you can buy a second-hand bike on the esplanade of the VUB Main Campus.
There are also lots of other opportunities and initiatives to buy second-hand bikes in Brussels.

At the VUB Bike Hub at Triomflaan 40, next to VUB Main Campus, you can rent a bike for a period of 1 day to 1 year, with a discount on presentation of your student card.

Want to rent a bike for a few months? Then you can also turn to Swapfiets. With Swapfiets, you never have to worry about a broken bike again. For a fixed monthly fee, you get a swap bike and the guarantee that it always works.

Cycling is healthy and the ideal mode of transport for short journeys. You don't even have to have your own bike. There are more and more and different systems of shared bikes and steps in Brussels. An overview: Shared mobility in Brussels. 

If you want to use a bike once in a while in Brussels, the Villo! shared bikes come in handy, you can use them 24/7. Villo! has 360 stations all over Brussels, you pick up a bike at one Villo! station and drop it off at another. As long as you park your bike back at a station within half an hour, it won't cost you a single extra eurocent. So it's as economical as it is convenient!
You can take a day ticket, a monthly subscription or an annual subscription. There are three Villo! points near the VUB Main Campus. On Dikke Beuklaan is the Villo! point UZ Brussel, at the exit of the VUB Health Campus. Here you can take the Villo! to the station in Jette for example.

Blue-bike, the striking blue rental bikes, can be found at 110 NMBS stations in Belgium. Ideal for getting around in Brussels, cycling to the library in Leuven, going out in Ghent or taking a class at an interuniversity course in Antwerp. You pay €12 per year for your membership, plus a fixed rate per session. All info and subscriptions can be found on Blue-bike.