Motorcycle or motorbike in Bali is not just the most popular means of transportation, but also become a part of identity for its rider especially in the rural areas. These phenomenons happen due to the popularity of the motorcycle combines with the way of Balinese introduce themselves.

Balinese usually introduce themselves with their birth order name. Birth order name is a well-known and unique characteristic of Balinese name. The birth order name is given to a baby at the instant of its birth, according to whether it is the first, second, third, fourth, etc., member of a sibling set. There is some local and status-group variation in usage here, but the most common system is to use Wayan for the first child, Made (or Nengah) for the second, Nyoman for the third, and Ketut for the fourth, beginning the cycle over again with Wayan for the fifth, Made for the sixth, and so on.

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The island of Bali has been called the Island of thousands temples but nowadays, Bali is not just teemed with temples but also with motorcycles. Motorcycles practically everywhere on this 5,500 square kilometer island. You can never out of sight and sound of this most popular means of transportation even though you are in the remotest place in the Bali. Moreover if you are in Denpasar, the capitol city of Bali, the streets are litteraly streams of motorcycles, the parking paces is packed with motorcycles, the curbs turn into lines of motorcycles, they are omnipresent in Bali.

As a means of transportation motorcycle in Bali is very useful and utilize by Balinese to its extreme limit. It is not unusual to see a family of four ride on a single motorcycle that is too small for two westerners, usually the father ride the motorcycles, mother sitting behind with a child and the second child sitting on the father lap, holding the handle bars. In Bali, motorcycle also replaced the function of truck; bags of cements, big bushel of grass, pigs, long bamboo pole, anything that westerner use a truck to carry can be carried on motorcycle in Bali.

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