Showing posts with label bike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bike. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Update on coverage

Just a update on what area has been covered by my bicycle wheels

According to my records it's has come to a total of 366 km and I have every intention of keep adding to that number.

Today it's going to be something a bit less intensive than yesterday.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Another ride

It seams like pains induced by prolonged bike rides are short lived, so we went for another bike trip. This time we decided to go east, to Santa Cruz (wonderful city) and then ride through the Bosque de la Esperanza. Beautiful landscapes, great roads, good company and a motorcycle that is quite underpowered. What else can you ask (apart from a better bike)?


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Still no pictures uploaded. No patience for that just yet.

When we decided to come to Tenerife (it was a 5 minutes decision) we didn't dewed some much into details - like what to expect from such a small island. Asking around to some friends we were told not to expect nothing great. Well, maybe thanks to those advices our expectations were high but they were completely blown away. The cities are well arranged and clean, the people are nice, and the volcanic landscape provides a never ending moments of visual pleasure.

My advice, if you're coming to Tenerife, is to rent a bike the next day you arrive. You can go anywhere with it, park almost anywhere and mostly see the landscape as you ride in good mountain roads.

We're loving it!

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Bike trip

Yesterday we decided to go for a bike ride, on a Honda Varadejo 125.

In the map is the route we did. I can tell you that after years without riding bike doing 160 km is pretty hard on your butt.


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We have some hundreds photos, and I'll upload some soon.

One thing that didn't work out that well was that the cable car to the top of the Teide last trip was at 16:00. It was 16:30 when we got there. We had no idea that it closed so early.

The best landscape was the one we found in the North West part of the island. It's hard to come to words with such breath tacking views. The road was a serpent going down on huge cliffs. In the bottom of a narrow valley a small set of houses, Masca, lives in what must have been years of isolation. Beautiful.