 Several neighboring cities have asked for the service to be extended to their cities as well, and studies are underway on how to implement this for the wider metropolitan area.In 2019 the network started a large 7,000 bike expansion with pedal assisted bikes from Canadian firm PBSC 

The name is derived from "bici", the Catalan and Spanish short-form for bicycle, and "BCN", Barcelona's airport code and a popular abbreviation of its name.The English suffix "-ing" was also added, like the Spanish words "footing" (a pseudo-anglicism used for jogging), "parking" (car park), "camping" (campsite) and "Vueling", which is a Catalan airline.