Our
Team

We are keen cyclists who have pride in our personal service, speak English & Spanish and have good quality mountain bikes.
Austral Bikes is a family run business with 17 years of experience, 9 in Santiago and for the last 8 years settled in Puerto Varas, Chile.
We promote the Carretera Austral as one of the most extraordinaries Chilean destinations, we rent fully equipped bikes with the best equipment and accessories available of each brand, that will resist the most acute weather conditions.
We´ve made contacts with local people all along the route from Puerto Varas to Villa O’Higgins, to guarantee a prompt repair of any issue that can affect our bikers along Carretera Austral, and also to provide bicycle transfer service from Coyhaique and Villa O’Higgins to Puerto Varas.
Our primary concern is your safety: you won’t be alone while cycling. We’ll stay in touch via WhatsApp and be ready to help when needed.
OUR TEAM
IN PUERTO VARAS:
We ride hard, we ride smart, we ride wise!

Juan Pablo

Cristian

Santiago

Daniel

Sergio
We don’t ride fast anymore, we ride wise.
That’s why we let the youngsters go first, so they clear the headwinds for us!

Our Bikes

Diana
Our Partners/Mechanics Coyhaique: Yerko
Villa O´higgins: Laura and Walter

ABOUT OUR BIKES
Our bikes are excellent quality bikes, Merida brand, specially selected for the trails of the zone and the gravel road on Carretera Austral (easily handleable).
Merida is the second-biggest bike manufacturer in Taiwan, this company has been manufacturing bikes since 1972.
Merida is also the main sponsor of the World Tour Bahrain-McLaren team, which currently hires big-name stars in the bicycle industry, such as Mikel Landa.
Our cycles are adult MTB bikes (small to extra large) and children’s bikes (three sizes) as well as baby seats (which attach to the adult bikes).
All the bikes are geared to enable all parts of the road and trails (undulations to be reached with comfort).
All bikes are supplied with a helmet, a lock, a pump, spare tubes and tools, panniers are available for long journeys.
iAs cyclists ourselves we realized the hassle and risk of bringing your own bikes along to foreign countries: careless handling, expensive overweight charges, and the time wasted disassembling and then rebuilding your bike plus the downright impracticality of lugging around a flight case.
About our self guded tours and daily rentals: If you want a nice leisurely day out that works for the novice, we can arrange it. ¿Want something more demanding?
We have plenty of routes and the experience to take you there, arrange lodgings and dinner. We have created a huge selection of self-guided tours.
Our tour routes cover the most interesting and vibrant parts of Lake Llanquihue´s Loop, Chiloé, Pumalin Park, Alerce Andino Park, Pucón, Carretera Austral and offer the best 10 Self Guided tours for you to enjoy.
In 2016 we started our Bicycle Repair Shop, which services the bikes of locals and is a highly regarded business with a large customer base.
We are a company that prides ourselves on upholding a firm set of principles that guide our business and conduct as tour operators and as residents of Puerto Varas. We are located on route 225, km 1.5, the starting point of the biggest cycling path in Chile.
