Touring in Bali

[wongaga]

Hi folks. Anyone have anything to share on a bicycle tour of Bali?

Cheers, Wongaga

[meteparozzi]

Umm, Bali is pretty tiny. I would say you could ride around, through, and across in one or two days, maybe three for the lot. What information are you looking for specifically?

[wongaga]

I'm looking for someone who has actually ridden substantial parts of it to share their experience. Hopefully someone who has experience riding a loaded touring bike, and someone who actually understands bike touring, and appreciates the distances and mountains involved.

[meteparozzi]

Hopefully someone who has experience riding a loaded touring bike, and someone who actually understands bike touring, and appreciates the distances and mountains involved.

Not sure if that is a shot in my direction. Just wondered if you were looking for camping sites, locations to stay, difficult roads or what.

As someone who lives, rides around and tours Taiwan, which has some of the highest mountains and most dangerous roads in the world, I find it kind of brash to say I don't understand bike touring or can't appreciate distances and mountains.

So, as I asked before, do you want camping locations, good places to eat, road to take or what?

[meteparozzi]

Here's a good link that should give you a run down of a lot of things you can do and see there, from a guy who has been 3 times. He spent 2 weeks, but it can be done faster (hence my original post). Part of it comes from how you want to see it and where you are coming from.

For me, a 3 day hop down to Bali is no problem, as it's quite close. Sorry about any misdirection there.

Hope this helps.

Bali Cycling Journal (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=lt&doc_id=1994&v=1lh)

[wongaga]

Here's a good link that should give you a run down of a lot of things you can do and see there, from a guy who has been 3 times. He spent 2 weeks, but it can be done faster (hence my original post). Part of it comes from how you want to see it and where you are coming from.

For me, a 3 day hop down to Bali is no problem, as it's quite close. Sorry about any misdirection there.

Hope this helps.

Bali Cycling Journal (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=lt&doc_id=1994&v=1lh)
Thanks for that, just what I was looking for.

[Ming65]

Not sure if I'm dragging up a long dead thread here or not. I've toured Bali and Lombok twice on a hard tail MTB with a day pack only. So many cheap losmans there it's crazy to try and camp. Trpical weather also means you need very little warm clothing, although it does get a little chilly up on the Volcano rims at night. You can circumnavigate the island (Bali) in less than a week, although I'd avoid the SE corner and the main road from the Ferry terminal to Denpasar - fast and dangerous traffic. The rest of the island, while at times quite heavy traffic, has that lovely slow moving pace of most of SE Asian back roads -I was often the fastest thing on the road and that included motorbikes.

Desite the small amount of clothing I took, I think the next time I'd use panniers anyway - a 5-8kg daypack is still too much for cycling.

PM me if you have any specific questions (if you are still intereste that is)

[wongaga]

Not sure if I'm dragging up a long dead thread here or not. I've toured Bali and Lombok twice on a hard tail MTB with a day pack only. So many cheap losmans there it's crazy to try and camp. Trpical weather also means you need very little warm clothing, although it does get a little chilly up on the Volcano rims at night. You can circumnavigate the island (Bali) in less than a week, although I'd avoid the SE corner and the main road from the Ferry terminal to Denpasar - fast and dangerous traffic. The rest of the island, while at times quite heavy traffic, has that lovely slow moving pace of most of SE Asian back roads -I was often the fastest thing on the road and that included motorbikes.

Desite the small amount of clothing I took, I think the next time I'd use panniers anyway - a 5-8kg daypack is still too much for cycling.

PM me if you have any specific questions (if you are still intereste that is)
Thanks mate, I sure am still interested - Bali is on my list together with UK/France for must-do's in the next year or two.

[Ming65]

Thanks mate, I sure am still interested - Bali is on my list together with UK/France for must-do's in the next year or two.
Thought these might wet your apitite mate. Just realised that most of my photos are from a trip I did in '99 with my old specialised rockhopper - which I'd kept that bike, it would make a great touring set-up. Later trips were done on a hard tail trek aluminium.