Hey,

Doing a quick Bali trip in a coupla weeks and was just wondering if anyone knows whether you can still hire motorbikes using just your car drivers license? Always have in the past, but it's been a few years...

Cheers,

Steve.

Take lots of Dettol, mercurichrome and bandaids Stevo.

get a driver it s the go
they are cheap and they know the short cuts

International licence is fine, the cops will moan a bit that it doesn't have a motorbike stamp but they won't do anything else.
If you don't have one and get pinged it'll be the usual bartering process. Good to have some bills in one pocket to give them if need be, don't want to pull out a wad of cash or the bartering goes on forever.

go and hire a bike as per usual and put 20,000 rupiah under ur seat so when they ask for documents just give them that or u can pretend u dont hear them and speeed offf!

motorbikes in indo.......
are an exceptionally bad idea especially if you don't have an Oz license anyway
if you dont ride at home why go to no road rules indo and get one
you are effectively a non entity on indo roads on a motorbike, it is OK to pullout in front of a bike at anytime
even hiring a car now is a joke with the amount of traffic and lord help you if you run over someone or thing, you can consider yourself at fault regardless and anything you may have saved by not hiring a driver will go in "rectifying the situation"
save yourself a massive amount of stress and hire a bemo with a driver
any accidents/problems you pay him for the day step over to the nearest taxi and you are away
notice most of the expats that live there have drivers
quite a big difference now to when you could load the 2/stroke DT100 with 2 boards and a girl from the sari club, remove the helmet once past the airport and ride with impunity to the start of the track at ulu's
boards and kites are a nightmare to carry on a bike anyway
you can also have a few cleansing ales on the way home maybe even stop off at the "bowling ally"
dont put your nomination in for the darwin awards!!
the money you spend is nothing compared to the drama you have if there is an incident
other wise stay at the warungs on the bukit/ balian or where ever you want to surf
(rant finished!!!)

yeah your right OK
i used to "love the smell of Mercurochrome(bettadine for you young fellas) in the morning"

right again
forgot what it was like to be young, dumb and full of cum!!

I just got back and never got pulled over once. Got lost in the middle of Denpasar by myself surrounded by cops and no trouble. Get the International licence to cover your ass and hide the big bills from them. I keep my big notes in a roll seperate from the small crap i leave in my wallet. Just hide behind any truck or car that you can at the intersections. I have heard about the cops at Ulu but I never saw them. Just don't ride like a nugget and you'll have more coin for Bintang

^ Yep and keep your thumb ready on the horn button, your hands/foot ready for the brakes and don't bother trying to keep up with Vishy