Touring Canary Islands on a motorbike.

Flying off in the morning to spend a week with these guys http://www.canarymotorcycletours.co...bFhxGTRaK8hA1HUoKDFqUnR4PC6eWH8w-5hoC_crw_wcB

Never been to the Canary Islands before but riding in 22C sunshine appeals after the freezing conditions this week, so fingers crossed for a good week.

Have booked a ferry to take the bikes over one day to Tenerife with the intention of riding up the volcano. Let you guys know how it goes when I get back.

 

First day here and the wife and I met tour owner Martin and picked up our rides for the week which are all Honda CBF 600s. After the obligatory safety talk we head into the mountains along some amazing twisty and at times challenging roads.
This island should not just be looked on as a beach destination, the interior is quite lush and green (surprising as there is little rain) Riding temp is about perfect at 22C but got a little chilly at the top of the mountain. You can just see the mountain of Tenerife about 40 miles away by ferry where we are heading on Thursday. Hope its not too chilly for you guys back in blighty.

 

End of day 3 now and I'm amazed how many great roads are on this island. Martin took us down what he calls the mini Stelvio pass; its where KTM took all the journalists on the launch of one of their models last year





We went up and down some of the steepest passes I've ever riden....some really challenging stuff and equal to some of the stuff in the Alps. At home it was freezing fog and about 5C here dry roads and 22C.
My advice is find a cheap flight, give these guys a call http://www.canarymotorcycletours.com
Its a great taylored service they provide, sorting hotels, airport collection, bike gear, insurance, petrol, well maintained bikes, small groups and most importantly a fully guided tour based on the groups riding ability.
Just a note of caution, you will need to be an experienced reasonably confident rider as the roads of the interior of the island are very twisty, steep and with huge drops offs down mountains if you get it wrong.

 

5th and final riding day with Canary Island Motorcycle Tours. Long 12 hour day which saw us catch the fast ferry to neighbouring Island Tenerife and ride up mount Teide through the lava fields to aprox 2500m.
Perfect weather about 25C cooling a bit as we got higher. Explored some of the best interior roads and then returned back to Gran Canaria where we said goodby to our trusty Honda CBF600s.
We are definitely going to return possibility this time next year. This tour exceeded expectations in every way, reasonable prices, well organised, great local restaurant stop offs and most of all fully guided tours of the very best roads......many many more than you would expect.
Highly recommended

 

Gave my Olfi (cheap gopro) a go

 

I've mounted the camera so it fits on the chin of my Shoei full face using standard go pro mounts and a few short connectors held together with screws rarther than the bulky thunb screws normally used.
The camera is a newly released Olfi one five and it really is superb, similar to a Gopro in a waterproof housing I'm amazed it picked up me talking to my wife via Bluetooth just through the vent in the chin of the helmet. I wasn't trying to do any commentary
The Olfi is only £150.00 compared to a new GoPro which is over £300.00

To compare I filmed this on my very old gopro 2

 

No riding here at the moment with subzero temps but while I've had a bit of time over Christmas I have trawled through some more footage and put a clip of day 4 together.


Probably one of the best roads I've ever riden.