Bona loves to use MotionX-GPS riding his Ducati through Indonesia. Here’s a story from his last ride to Puncak.

Last Monday my self and several Ducatisti friends did a short trip to Puncak, a mountainous area about 90km (55 miles) south of Jakarta. Puncak is very popular destination for weekend trip for people live in Jakarta and its surrounding area. With Puncak’s cool and fresh air Puncak is the only area close enough to get away from a hot and polluted air of Jakarta.

I also would like to test my iPhone based MotionX-GPS during this ride and I use the MotionX-GPS more as a “route recorder” then a “road guide”. So the device will not tell me which way to go, but will record my route info; such as Speed, Elapsed Time, etc during the trip.

It was about 10 of us with various Ducati bike. There were Superbike 996 and 848, several Monster, and off course several Multistrada as well. We initially plan to start around 6 AM and start from Citos, a shopping mall in South Jakarta. Trip to Puncak will always jam pack especially in the weekend thus we plan to start early to avoid that. Unfortunately some of us came late thus we start about 6:45 AM.

Before we start, I used the MotionX Stopwatch to record my trip, or it called “Track” by the software. Once reached the destination MotionX will then shows the information about the trip as shows in bellow pic.

As in the above pic we start around 6:36 AM, with distance about 82.7km (51.3 Mile), elapsed time of 1:55 and average speed of 43.1km/h (26.7 mph). It also shows the road that we took on its map (top pic). As you can see we only manage to do average speed of 43.1km/h thus it took us almost 2 hours to cover about 50 miles. This is normal in Jakarta as Motorcycle is not allow to enter highway or toll road and the public road is almost certainly pack especially road to a popular spot such as Puncak.

Our destination was a popular restaurant called Puncak Pas and we arrived there around 9AM. I record the location of this restaurant using a Way Point on the software as in bellow pic. Way Point (Wypt on the software) will record geo position and other info such as Altitude. As you can see below Puncak Pas restaurant is about 1,468m (4,816 ft) above sea level.

We also met fellow riders, there were fellow sport rider with R1, R6, CBR1000RR as well as Harley and Honda Goldwing. Shows that this is a very popular destination for a bike riding. The sport bike group was about to leave the restaurant when we arrived. They were trying to beat the traffic as the traffic will getting much worse by the hour so we grabed a quick brunch and prepare our self to return back to Jakarta.

I did not turn on the GPS return back to Jakarta. The traffic will be bad and I didn’t see any point recording it. As suspected the traffic came down was bad to say the least. Some of us get separated in to several groups and as we getting close to sea level the temperature was simply getting hotter. From Puncak to Jakarta we passed Bogor city and Depok City and we did stop by for a drink and I managed to grab bellow pic on scorching hot Depok City. The temperature was easily about 40C (104F).

Arrived in Jakarta around 12 Noon it was just about time to see the Motegi MotoGP race. As to the MotionX-GPS, I like it sharing feature. Once recorded I can share via email or Facebook the recorded track.

The track can also be seen using Google Map or Google Earth, bellow was the track I took that day.

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