Free Bikes
Dear students,
We have good news for you. You can now rent nextbike bikes for free!
Nextbike is a public bike renting system that has around 6500 renting bikes and a total of 2900 renting stations inside and outside the S-Bahn ring. You have probably already seen the bikes in various places in Berlin.
You now have the opportunity to rent a bike from nextbike free of charge for up to 60 minutes for the rest of the summer semester.
If you exceed the 60-minute hire period, you have to pay €1.00 for each additional 30 minutes. The maximum daily rate is €15.00. Therefore, a method of payment must normally be provided to nextbike. This is not necessary for you at first. However, as soon as you incur costs, you must enter a method of payment in your account, otherwise it will be temporarily blocked!
To rent the bikes, you need to register with nextbike using your mobile number and your HU email address with the email domain @student.hu-berlin.de and confirm your email via a link sent to you.
You can do this in the app or via the nextbike website. You should then be able to use the HU-Berlin test service free of charge. If you are already registered with nextbike, you can simply enter and confirm your HU email address in your existing account. To illustrate how this works, you will find detailed instructions attaches to this e-mail.
Once you have done this, you can start cycling straight away. The bikes must be returned to an official nextbike station, otherwise you will be charged for the return. You can find out where these are in the app/on the website.
The general terms and conditions of nextbike apply to the hire of nextbikes.
If you are studying at the Charité, you cannot register with the Charité e-mail address, but also need the domain @student.hu-berlin.de. To do this, you must have your HU account activated. You can find out how to do this here.
If you have any questions, please contact us!
Best regards
Your RefRat