As I mentioned in my previous post, the air-cooled technology will falter when there is no “air” to pass through the system. This situation doesn’t arise as per normal usage – since mainly a rider would be riding non-stop. Clocking an average of 30 km/h to 60 km/h. We head upwards and North West towards Kintamani from Mount Batur. It was overcast and cloudy, and essentially was raining in some parts of the mountain.
Don stuck in traffic up Kintamani
Therefore we had to make the decision to continue the journey to go over the mountain pass. About 10 kms on the road, we were stuck. Because there was a huge religious Balinese procession with several buses carrying devotees. Some of the buses had stopped and most of the devotees are already walking on foot up the mountain area. We were riding and going slowly. Then suddenly one passer-by noticed smoke coming out of my brother’s engine!
The scooter's engine was burning with smoke
So we had to rest the bike. But due to the incoming rain, we continued by pushing upwards. Half way, it rained for 30 minutes. We made a pit stop. IN fact we made several pit stops, because the rain keep coming and going. The terrain was 100% winding. The long and winding road plus the rain makes it very dangerous to keep going.
Long and winding road
The temperature was hovering around 20 Celsius, with the rain breaking on your body and the acceleration of the motorbike forward, plus the wind, it was a very cold ride over this mountain pass. My hands were shivering. My clothes were wet. Most of bags too. But the experience was priceless! Wildhogs!
Pit Stop in the mountain
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