International Bike Weeks, Gunnar Asmussen, Rolf Aldga, Tom Kristensen, and Herman Reichold & Lars Bak

Once again in 2012, Club La Santa has the pleasure of hosting the popular International Bike Weeks on the beautiful volcanic island of Lanzarote.

The island’s dramatic landscape offers a variety of
terrain with some fantastic mountain climbs that makes Lanzarote an ideal place to train; very few riders can achieve the same speed as at home. The well-known hosts, together with the experienced Green Team bike guides offer you plenty of challenges, guidance and many unforgettable experiences whilst you’re biking around Lanzarote. The weeks cater for all abilities from novice to the serious racing club cyclist.

Ideally, to get the most out of your bike weeks, you should be able to cycle 2 to 4 hours daily.

Training
The routes will vary both in length and difficulty, taking you to the far south of the island, through the fascinating Fire Mountains and up to the north with the view over the island La Graciosa. You will challenge yourself and test your legs on the hard climb to Femés and on the 10km long beautiful mountain climb to Tabayesco. We will divide you into groups, which will go at different speeds (from 21 km/h to 30+km/h) and levels, so that there will be a suitable group for everybody. The slowest group is called Herman’s Cappuccino-group and will go 21 to 23 km/h. All the groups will be lead by a host and a guide.

During the long rides there will be stops allowing you to have a sandwich and refreshments.
Before the daily rides there will be advice and guidance given on how to set up your bike correctly and you can always ask the hosts for advice regarding biking in groups, hills/mountains and how to take corners.
It is not unusual for the participants to cover about 950 km and have many unforgettable experiences and challenges. The programme also contains other activities; we will have different lectures with the hosts and a pool tournament on one of the evenings. Every week ends with a dinner in the restaurant La Casa, where different prizes are handed out.

The Team

Rolf Aldag, one of the most famous German bikers, has been biking professionally for 15 years (13 for T-mobile) and has done the Tour de France 10 times winning several stages. In 2000 he was the German road biking champion, and has also won some six-day races. In 2006 Rolf got a new job as the Sports Director for the T-Mobile Team, which is now Team Columbia. Rolf will participate in a part of the bike weeks.

Herman Reichold is a German-Italian artist and is known for his abstract paintings in Germany, Lanzarote and around Europe. Herman has only been biking for around 10 years, but he is a highly respected biker – according to Rolf Aldag. Herman is the
leader of the ”Cappuccino-group” during the bike weeks.

Tom Kristensen, 8 times winner of 24 hours Le Mans (Record) – The most famous motor race in the world. Tom has been driving all kinds of racing cars with great success throughout his career. He is an experienced and all around athlete and he is a good bike rider, both on racing bike and MTB. Besides that he knows all the bike routes on Lanzarote.

Gunnar Asmussen, has been active within the bike sport more than 40 years. He has won several Nordic championships, his main achievement being an Olympic gold medal in 4000 m for teams in Mexico in 1968.

Lars Bak, has been riding profesionally for 10 years. He started his career in Team Fakta (Denmark) in 2002 and have the last 2 years been riding for HTC Highroad. He has won Paris-Bourges, Tour de l`avenir and is 4 times Danish champion.

Please note that if you want to rent a Club La Santa bike rather than taking your own, you will have to arrange this separately with CLub La Santa UK prior to departure. The price for a bike is around 95 € per week or 21 € a day. *It is advisable to book these bikes at time of booking and will be subject to availabilty

Accommodation has to be booked separately with Club La Santa UK on +44 (0) 161-790-9890

FOR APARTMENTS PRICES AT CLUB LA SANTA. Please refer to the pricing tab.

Event weeks are restricted to guests staying at Club La Santa.

BUY YOUR NEW ROAD BIKE HERE