Anyone know any good Hot cycling holiday places in Jan?

warrior4life
warrior4life Posts: 925
edited May 2011 in Training, fitness and health
Just looking for a week or two early next year, Looking at tenerife but any other ideas welcome?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Adelaide.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Majorca is warm-ish. You'd have to go Southern hemisphere I think for real heat that time of year.

    I was in Majorca in January and it was pleasant, but not exaclty suntan weather.
  • schlepcycling
    schlepcycling Posts: 1,614
    Cape Town
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,380
    anything north of the tropics is a gamble, might be fine, might be awful

    in january, i've been baked and topped up my tan in the algarve and in southern spain, but i've had 11 days solid cloud and rain in lanzarote in november, and i've been frozen in the algarve in may!

    if you need to keep to europe-ish, then the canaries are cheap to get to and the roads are usually good

    plenty of villas you can hire cheap at that time, and as it's further south if the weather is clear it'll be pretty warm, plus drivers are typically very considerate to cyclists (any who aren't are probably from the uk)

    but take a base layer, a wind/waterproof and some knee warmers, just in case

    fwiw tenerife is hilly/twisty roads, great if you want to lots of climbing/descending, lanzarote has some good long flat-ish roads as well as some hilly bits. but no climbs as long/high as tenerife

    monarch airlines are good for bikes, 18.50 quid each way, no hassle
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • warrior4life
    warrior4life Posts: 925
    Im liking Tenerife at the moment.
    Will look into it more.
    Thanks for the help.
  • bigpikle
    bigpikle Posts: 1,690
    Gran Canaria - been last 6 years and 25 degs, sunny and great!

    Brilliant bike hire place offering full range of Cannondale on/off road machines (latest models as new condition) and guided routes 6 days a week. Roads are near perfect for 90% of it and some stunning mountains to climb. No point going unless you want to ride up them though, as other than the dull coast perimeter road, its all about the mountains in the middle! This year I did 3 days riding, about 200 miles and 20,000ft of UP....but you dont need to be a serious mountain goat to do it, as I was a '1 year back' middle-order bloke who rode them on a triple....

    Brilliant place to ride IMHO and will be back again next Jan 8)
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