50 Best Rock Songs About Bicycles

Great Rock Tracks for Bike Riding Vibes

There’s a strange kind of freedom that comes with pedaling down an empty street, wind in your face, trying to keep pace with whatever song happens to be spilling through your earbuds. It’s not pure joy, not quite escape, but a jittery in-between that feels alive for a second. Rock songs hit different in that space, where every riff pushes you forward and every drumbeat matches the rhythm of the tires spinning on asphalt. Some tracks literally mention bikes, others drift near the feeling without ever naming it, but they all capture that reckless urge to ride like you’ve got somewhere to be even when you don’t.

Sometimes the ride turns chaotic. Maybe you’re weaving through traffic, maybe the chain slips, maybe you crash and laugh because it all feels like a movie you didn’t sign up for. These are the moments when the songs on this list fit best, messy and loud, full of hooks that keep you from slowing down. Some of them are straight-up pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that stumbled into this playlist by accident, but the energy matches perfectly. They aren’t literal anthems for bikes so much as they are snapshots of motion and adrenaline, and they work even when the story doesn’t line up neatly with the ride.

Other times it’s calmer, like coasting through backroads at sunset while guitars hum low and steady. Those tracks don’t push you to go faster, they sit in the quiet and let the world feel huge for a minute. Not every song here will mention a set of wheels or handlebars, but they all carry that restless energy you chase when the ride is more than transportation. Here are the best rock songs for bicycles that deserve a spot on your playlist.

1. 'Bicycle Race' by Queen

2. 'My White Bicycle' by Nazareth

3. 'Bicycle Song' by Red Hot Chili Peppers

4. 'Broken Bicycles' by Tom Waits

5. 'Bike' by Pink Floyd

6. 'The Pushbike Song' by The Mixtures

7. 'Silver Machine' by Hawkwind

8. 'Handlebars' by Flobots

9. 'A Lilac Harry Quinn' by Half Man Half Biscuit

10. 'The Bike Song' by Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.

11. 'Riding Bikes' by Shellac

12. 'Happy Cycling' by Boards of Canada

13. 'Cycling Is Fun' by Shonen Knife

14. 'The Bicycle Song' by The Brobecks

15. 'Rockin' Bicycle' by Fats Domino

16. 'The Acoustic Motorbike' by Luka Bloom

17. 'Bike Ride to the Moon' by The Dukes of Stratosphear

18. 'On My Bike' by Bikeride

19. 'La Bicyclette' by Yves Montand

20. 'Brand New Key' by Melanie

21. 'Death Of An Old Bike' by The Rosebuds

22. 'I Like To Ride My Bike' by Shonen Knife

23. 'Dirt Bike' by They Might Be Giants

24. 'My Bike' by The Bennies

25. 'Bicycle' by BC Unidos ft. Shungudzo

26. 'Bicycle Wheels' by The Dirty Nil

27. 'To The Birds' by Suede

28. 'Bike Dream' by Rostam

29. 'Bicycle' by Unknown Mortal Orchestra

30. 'Bicycles, Roller Skates and You' by The Wombats

31. 'The Kickstand Song' by Darren Hanlon

32. 'Black Mags' by The Cool Kids

33. 'Have You A Wheel?' by O. A. Hoffmann

34. 'The Great Velocipede' by Frank Wilder

35. 'Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)' by Harry Dacre

36. 'Ride On' by Chris Hill

37. 'Le Vélo Pour Deux' by The Brobecks

38. 'Riding My Bicycle' by The Kinks

39. 'Stolen Bikes' by Sam Lachow

40. 'White Bikes' by Thursday

41. 'Pedal Your Blues Away' by Earl Rouse and Brothers

42. 'In Bicicletta' by Riccardo Cocciante

43. 'Fahrrad' by Bläck Fööss

44. 'Tour de France' by Kraftwerk

45. 'Bicycle' by Major Parkinson

46. 'An Elegy for Baby Blue' by The Wonder Years

47. 'Hadron Collision' by Propagandhi

48. 'Cycles To Gehenna' by Aesop Rock

49. 'My Bike' by Ghoti Hook

50. 'I Rode My Bike To My Stepsister's Wedding' by Grandaddy