Crashing Bikes and Breaking Feet
Trip Start
Jan 16, 2006
1
58
102
Trip End
Ongoing
Kuta, Lombok,
Indonesia
Thursday, April 5, 2007
We stopped here after a brief, uneventful, couple of days in Sengiggi, and found that it, like Trawangan, is a great place to chill.
It's a big surfer destination and so every bugger here was Aussie, but some were ok. I guess.
We didn't really do a great deal to be honest. Walked up and down the beach, getting a little lost (if that's possible on a beach) and then got hammered with 3 Aussie Surfers in our Guest House Restaurant.
Next day was the interesting one
"Not sure I want to go from this port..."
. Let's hire a bike. Motorbike. Easy.Probably you shouldn't drive a motorbike at 8am whilst still drunk from the night before. Turns out that's true.
After 5 minutes we come upon a slight right hand turn. Now, instead of being capable of turning the bike to the right, my hand only manages to turn the throttle. Up. The more I try to turn, the more the throttle rises.
"So let go and bring the bike to a safe stop. Phew it worked, but Rob lost his flip flop 50 yards back. I'll go pick him up." So I turn the bike around - to the right - until a certain point where when I pull the right side, what happens? Yep the throttle turns. Up.
"Oh oh."
Yup. The side of the road is a small (luckily) ditch with many a strategically placed tree lining the tarmac. I managed to bail out before hitting one of said trees. The bike didn't.
"Rob. I think you should drive mate."
Now, the problem with all of this is that I've seen kids no older than 10 years old whizzing down the street on their mopeds and motorbikes. It can't be that hard. Why am I the only person in the world who can't turn right?
I'll have to give it another try one day. In an empty car park. A big one.
