Maui: "You Need a Car" -NOT

[carless]

I worked in Maui Feb 7 - 14, 2006. According to the guidebooks/forums you need a car to travel in Maui. I had no problems, traffic is polite, streets in towns have 75% good shoulders. It's an island with a volacano and most people live on the eastern valleys. To ride around the island can be done, but very hairy.
I used a fixed gear (39/15) Surly Crosscheck with S & S couplers, no freewheel (mistake) and $15 bmx pedals. Incidentally I painted the bike to glow in the dark. I rode 60 miles round trip in about 10 hours one day. I commuted 4 miles to work x3. When it rains it's still 74 degrees, so you don't need jackets, socks.

[DerekU2]

My honeymoon will likely be in Hawaii come September. I'm trying to decide if I should bring my bike or not. I imagine there's some beautiful scenery out there and the fiance has already given me the go ahead for a day on the bike while she hits a spa or something...

[EXCALIBUR]

My honeymoon will likely be in Hawaii come September. I'm trying to decide if I should bring my bike or not. I imagine there's some beautiful scenery out there and the fiance has already given me the go ahead for a day on the bike while she hits a spa or something...Bring your bike to Hawaii. The weather is usually nice most of the year. Just be mindful of the traffic. Q: Which island will you be staying at?

[Pampusik]

Does anybody have any experience biking Oahu? I will go to Honolulu (UHM) next week and am trying to figure out if I should bother trying to line up a bike to use while I'm there...

[gwd]

Does anybody have any experience biking Oahu? I will go to Honolulu (UHM) next week and am trying to figure out if I should bother trying to line up a bike to use while I'm there...
I learned to ride a bike on Oahu, windward side. One reason I turned down a job in Honolulu (in 1998 or so) was that the area where the job was didn't seem bikeable from what I could gather on the internet back then. There were some activists trying to make it better so line up a bike and report back to us ok?

[2mtr]

honolulu, despite what everyone says, is great (knock wood) to ride. I guess it does help that I'm a two meter tall, 22 year-old bike messenger. but still, it's fine with the proper defensive riding techniques.
you should definitely line up a bike; this place is great. i'd offer myself, but i only have one bike and I use it for work and to get to class (at UHM).
the bike shop on king offers some pretty good rentals. not the best, but pretty good

i went to lahina last summer and didn't get a car cause I assumed there'd be mass tranist. Wrong. So I just shuffled around lahina for three days in the dirt.
shoulda gotten a bike...

[Pampusik]

Thanks for the ideas. I'll look for a bike around King St. and loop back in a few weeks on how it went on the island...