In Reply to: bali-Baik posted by paulab on Sunday, 15. April 2007 at 15:48 Bali Time:
My wife and I took over our mountain bikes about 5 years ago and rode from Kuta to Kintamani and back. We stayed at Ubud oon the way up. It was great trip and riding slowly through the villages is so much different to driving a car through. Everyone talks to you and the local kids love it. I had a GPS so we could take some back roads and not get lost. We met a few of people riding on the way who had hired bikes and they were as good as ours so we didn't need to fly ours over there (Qantas didn't charge us but it was a pain having to carboard them up and look after them all the time. The trip up to Kintamani is all up hill for 2 days !!! .It was such an achievement and a "high" to finish. The trip back to Kuta is all down hill. Looking back the trip up the mountain was better because you go much slower and you stop at almost every village for a drink and some fruit etc.
Whatever way you go it believe it is one of the best ways to see and really "live" Bali.