This is an extraordinary post as I was not actually riding any bike here in Bogotá
We arrived mid October that is still rainy season here and as it suggests we got rain practically every day. Luckily it means 30-60 minutes every day.
Bogotá, being the capital of Colombia, is a huge city that occupies 42 km in diameter starting from the hills of Monserrate housing 7,8 million inhabitants without subway system. You can imagine how messy the traffic gets. On top of that people here have never heard of throttle control or predictive driving so pretty much full throttle-full brake the whole city including cars, busses and bikes alike.
With that said, the road is full with bikers regardless of the weather, mainly low cc small bikes. The most common one is the Bajaj Pulsar 180 and the Honda CB125.
There are plenty of options for you to rent bikes here in very district, as well as organized bike tours are available in the northern edge of the city. Strangely rentals offer 750+ cc bikes even in the city that makes them unusable getting around in the traffic.
In my opinion if you are planning a trip around here, get to the city borders using the public transport, taxi or Uber, then rent a bike to get out of the city towards the mountains.
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