Ecuador Freedom Bike Rental

Ryan and Mark came down from New Mexico looking for a little more excitement than the average vacation package tends to offer.

Mark brought along Emily, his travel partner and an electrical engineer, while Ryan joined the adventure as a good friend who was more than happy to swap everyday routines for a few days on two wheels.

So the three of them pointed their trip toward Northwest Ecuador and went looking for something different.

A few days out here has a way of clearing the mental cache. One minute you're talking shop, deadlines, projects, and responsibilities. The next you're riding through cloud forests, climbing mountain roads, stopping for coffee in small towns, and wondering why life feels a lot less complicated when your day revolves around a motorcycle and a map.

Mark spends his days working as a mechanical engineer. Emily approaches the world through electrical engineering. Both are used to systems, calculations, troubleshooting, and figuring out how things work.

Ecuador tends to interrupt that train of thought.

Roads twist through the mountains with absolutely no concern for efficiency. Weather changes its mind halfway up a pass. Volcanoes appear around corners. Tiny villages invite you to slow down whether you planned to or not.

For a little while, calculations get replaced by curiosity.

The cloud forest doesn't care about deadlines. The mountains aren't interested in project schedules. And nobody has ever improved a motorcycle trip by checking work emails from the side of a volcano.

If the three of them head back to New Mexico with a little less mental clutter and a few more stories than they arrived with, we'd call that a pretty successful week.

Alexandre has officially finished the kind of trip most people only talk about after two drinks and a bad case of wanderlust.

Originally from France and now living in Florida, he bought a Royal Enfield down in Argentina, pointed it north, and rode it all the way up to Ecuador. Then, in a move that deserves a little respect, he managed to sell the bike here for about what he paid for it. That is not travel luck. That is motorcycle traveler math done properly.

For the final chapter of his Ecuador ride, Alexandre rented this Piaggio scooter from us to head out to the Middle of the World and visit the Intiñan Museum. “Intiñan” comes from Kichwa and means “Path of the Sun,” which is a pretty fitting name for a place sitting right smack dab on the Equator. It is one of the more interesting places in Quito, with exhibits on Ecuador’s indigenous cultures, traditional homes, Amazonian history, and the always-entertaining equator demonstrations that show just how strange and fascinating this little line around the planet can be.

Congratulations on a proper South American ride, Alexandre. We wish you the best on the next adventures, wherever the road takes you from here. And when you need two wheels in Ecuador again, you know where to find us.

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ECUADOR FREEDOM BIKE RENTAL
Calle Finlandia N35-06 y Suecia
Quito, Pichincha

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