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As important as the cycle is your choice of tyres. Slick road tyres are not suitable and knobbly mountain bike tyres not necessary. What you need is something in-between with good tread and a slightly wider profile than you would use for everyday cycling at home. To reduce the chance of punctures, choose tyres with puncture resistant armouring, such as a Kevlar™ band.

A fully equipped cycle

Getting there and back

You may have reached Budapest by cycling the Danube Cycleway from Vienna or even from the river’s source in the German Black Forest. If you did you will have reached Szechenyi chain bridge in central Budapest, the start point for Stage 1 of this guide. If you are starting from Budapest, you can reach the city by rail, air, road or river. For a list of useful transportation websites, see Appendix E.

By rail

International rail services allow passengers to reach Budapest from all over Europe, often with a change in Vienna. However the frequent high-speed ÖBB (Austrian Railways) Railjet service from Munich and Vienna to Budapest has no cycle provision, so having arrived in Vienna it is necessary to take a series of local trains either via Bratislava to Budapest Keleti or via Bruck an de Leitha and Győr to Budapest Deli. The routes from these stations to the chain bridge are shown on the Budapest city map in Stage 1.