Cycling in tenerife

markyone

I am off to tenerife at easter for 11 nights and want to do some cycling from las americas,anyone have any routes and know of any decent bike hire shops as i dont want to take my own bike.
This will be my first time to tenerife thanks in advance.

mikecassie

I'm just home from there. there's loads of routes from there, I could pass on a few GPX routes I was given which could give you ideas of routes. Teide is the obvious big ride and it is a big day on the bike.

I've seen https://www.bikepointtenerife.com/ on loads of rental bikes, they seem to have some new BMC bikes too. I travelled with my own bike but the bikes looked like only a year or two old.

dstev55

mikecassie wrote:

I'm just home from there. there's loads of routes from there, I could pass on a few GPX routes I was given which could give you ideas of routes. Teide is the obvious big ride and it is a big day on the bike.

I've seen https://www.bikepointtenerife.com/ on loads of rental bikes, they seem to have some new BMC bikes too. I travelled with my own bike but the bikes looked like only a year or two old.

Cervelo R5's running DA 9100 too.

Nice! 8)

navrig2

The ride from Santiago del Teide to Buenavista is great. Stunning views, good tarmac and hard climbing. Return via El Tanque for a circular route.

banditvic

Freemotion, one of the best hire shops always well set up newish bikes.
In Los Chrisianos.

jollygiant

I was there in February staying in Costa Adeje. Bike Point are awesome and they set the bike up to your measurements before you get it. You just put all your info in on their website, all I had to do was adjust the tilt of the saddle a tad.

Allow a whole day for going up Teide as the route I took was 75miles and the climb is very loooong and very hard. But the descent is awesome. It gets very cold riding though the clouds and at the top.
I also did another couple of rides, one up the coast towards Grandillia and back though San Miguel.
The other one was up into the foot hills/ mountains, down to Los Gigantes and back along the coast to Costa Adeje. Both of these were about 40 miles and 6,000 ft of climbing. I can give you the GPX files of them if you want.

The Masca pass is very busy with all sorts of traffic and personally I would ride it in peak season.

ben@31

Los Christianos - La Camilla - Arona - Vilaflor

Or a long climb with an easy gradient...
Los Christianos - La Camilla - San Lorenzo - San Miguel - Granadilla.

You can traverse along the coast from Los Christanos on the TF-655 that runs parallel to the motorway. It'll take you to Los Abrigos then TF-643 to El Medano.

I found the descent from Granadilla to El Medano the worst, the road surface was terrible and its exposed to a side wind in places.

Vilaflor is the last village before Teide. Theres a good cafe on the corner at junction of the TF-51 and TF-21 roads. I think it took me 4 hours to get to Teide from El Medano.

haydenm

I was staying in Las Galletas last week which is about 15km south of Las Americas so our rides would be similar if you want GPX files, send me a PM if you want. We did one monster ride up to Santiago Del Teide- El Tanque and Buenavista Del Norte- up a stunning long climb, down again and back up Masca- down and back along the coast. 4,325m climbing which was basically all done by 100km of the 150km ride. While it was a bit of an ordeal for me I would highly recommend getting onto the northern edge of the island as the scenery is stunning and the climbs are steep.

We also did a ride up to Arona- Vilaflor- View point at the highest part of the road- then back again which was a lot of climbing and took all day, and another going up through Granadilla. The road between Granadilla and the top of Teide (through Vilaflor) is just perfect so I'd highly recommend that too

kingstongraham

The north west of the island is stunning scenery - I had no idea that Tenerife was like that before I went there. Also Anaga is absolutely beautiful as well, but it's in the north east, you wouldn't want to cycle all the way there from Las Americas. Both have plenty of decent length, steep climbs.

markyone

banditvic wrote:

Freemotion, one of the best hire shops always well set up newish bikes.
In Los Chrisianos.

cool i will check them out

markyone

Thanks for all the info guys i have until good friday to sort things and routes out.
Bike hire are the 2 mentioned and they look really good.

jollygiant

Oh one thing you'll like is the road quality! They are lovely and smooth and so much better than the UK. Also all the local diver are much more cycle aware and are very patient with you on the climbs, just wave them past when you can see it's clear for them and you'll get given a nice wide birth and a wave, a few even gave me nice toot on the horn.

I made a few laugh as I sped past them on the descents and shouting 'Hola" whilst doing 40-50mph+

navrig2

jollygiant wrote:

Oh one thing you'll like is the road quality! They are lovely and smooth and so much better than the UK. Also all the local diver are much more cycle aware and are very patient with you on the climbs, just wave them past when you can see it's clear for them and you'll get given a nice wide birth and a wave, a few even gave me nice toot on the horn.

I made a few laugh as I sped past them on the descents and shouting 'Hola" whilst doing 40-50mph+

Mostly agreed except a couple of roads off Teide had rippling at the hairpins. Need to be careful.

roger_merriman

Navrig2 wrote:

jollygiant wrote:

Oh one thing you'll like is the road quality! They are lovely and smooth and so much better than the UK. Also all the local diver are much more cycle aware and are very patient with you on the climbs, just wave them past when you can see it's clear for them and you'll get given a nice wide birth and a wave, a few even gave me nice toot on the horn.

I made a few laugh as I sped past them on the descents and shouting 'Hola" whilst doing 40-50mph+

Mostly agreed except a couple of roads off Teide had rippling at the hairpins. Need to be careful.

Yup it’s mostly but not wholly good, are some rougher bits, which potentially could cause problems simply due to the speeds you can reach, off the ruddy great hill.