In cities throughout the world, cycling is increasingly upgraded with smart technology and is included in smart cities visions and projects. This process has not been problematized in public discourse as smart innovation is seen as a potential booster of the known benefits of cycling. Drawing on critical literatures of smart city, smart mobility and degrowth and using the cases studies of Copenhagen and Amsterdam the paper opens up a more critical conversation on the smartification of cycling in the context of technosolutionism, technology push and pro-innovation bias.