Bike Rental in Italy - can anyone help?

[dcharge]

Hey folks: My gf and I are headed to Rome, Italy in July and we both ride at
home and we're hoping to find a couple of bikes to rent (or beg, borrow or
[temporarily] steal ) for two weeks so we can tour the countryside before a
tour that we've purchased takes us further north for another two weeks.

Would anyone on the list know of a reliable company in Rome through which we
might procure a couple of Bikes for a reasonable price? We've searched online
and found the pricing rather steep (that's putting it mildly!!!) so we're hoping
somebody can help us.

If you can, please provide contact information.

As a thought, would you folks be surprised to learn that for one bike for two
weeks we're looking at about $3000 US? (we just don't have $6000 for the
endeavour ).

Thanks for any and all advice!

Cheers

Dic (& Ellen, who rides a Ducati ST2 - I haven't been around of late because I've been riding an '07 VTX 1800 R - the GL1100 awaits some carb work and new rear shocks)

 

[Ansimp]

I know it is not a couple of bikes. We used Europcar for a Diesel Opel Astra from Munich and it was only about $500 for 11 days. Don't know if that helps in Rome but it was a great car and quite economical for the 2700 ks that we put on it

 

[dcharge]

Thanks, Ansip - we think that if we can't get bikes, we may just train around and use taxis or get a small short term rental car. One thing I had hoped, folks, was that somebody would say "Hey, my cousin in Italy rides - let's try to hook you up with a ride or two!"

Anyone else care to chime in on their experience or ideas?

Dic

 

[slabghost]

Maybe one of our German members can help. I've relatives in Germany who vacation in Italy. Unfortunately they don't ride.

 

[Baunix63]

Seers,

riding a motobike in Italy is very expensive. So I´ve never seen there bike´s to rent.
Scooters, that stuff you will get.

google told me:
https://www.biancoblu.com/eng/index.html

seems to be the only company for rental

 

[Ansimp]

Around the same time we were in Germany two mates and their wives rented a couple of BMW 1200s from a guy in Germany. They had a great time seeing the Alps etc but it was quite expensive and insurance is something that we believe would not have worked it Italy/Austria very well. When they were it Italy they kept saying that they were getting passed by locals on scooters all the time, so maybe scooter rental is not such a bad thing if it has reasonable grunt. For my money the car was a piece of cake ($1600 Euro excess which my travel insurance would cover up to $5000 euro), we got a cracked windscreen the 2nd day and I didn't return the car as Diesels were hard to get and this one only had 18k on it. No problems on drop off with the screen, all in all a fantastic experience. :yahoo: