A mountain bike ride down an island volcano. (2000m descent)

This is a look at the downhill MTB cycling culture in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Of course there are many *hard-core* downhillers, but obviously I don't fall into that category!

Although this is not strictly XC either - this is more of what you'd call an "All Mountain" bicycle ride. Definitely no ridiculous free ride jumps, etc.

For more info about cycling in Tenerife & Bike Hire, please visit:
www.Tenerife-Training.net

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• downhill
• XC
• MTB
• BTT
• cycling
• riding
• volcano
• ride
• Tenerife
• Teneriffa
• all
• mountain
• bike
• mountainbiking
• firetrail
• fire
• trail

[jlb295]

Either you got 30 of your friends to wait along the volcano with each having a video camera, or you had to keep stopping on your way down. My guess is the latter.

Thanks for the vid...

[quintessentquirk]

Yeah. Welcome to the world of video production...

[guitarguy4him]

Very cool. Who did your filming? Or did you just set up cameras and ride past them. Anyways. Looks like fun!

[quintessentquirk]

My good friend Iván Perez Ruiz did the filming; he works as a professional videographer here in Tenerife for the local channel "Azul". He's also the lead guitarist in the new band "Meridian Zero", and did their clip "fighting to arrive". I like working with him- a perfectionist with an eye for detail.

I'm sure with Iváns guidance, the quality of my videos will continue to get better.

Stay tuned for the next cycling video! Also, the promo video is about to be released.

Thanks, Leslie

[tiotditv]

I'm adding this to the list of things to do before I die. Amazing!

[jeremiasvokurka]

nice video, who cares it's not a downhill, it's good to take a nice chillout ride.

[DHTCF]

I don't get why some people put barriers up around mountain biking, as if they only enjoy it if what they do is somehow different from what some/most others do. If it's on a mountain bike and the surface isn't tarmac, it's mountain biking. Who cares if it's hardcore or not, so long as it's fun?

[Drjaysinful]

Brings back memories of descending Columbine at the Leadville 100 with all the fireroads anyways.

[mdreher1972]

Great vid. I am off to Tenerife in November and watching your vid almost makes me pee from excitement! THX!

[MultiMTBiker]

good video5/5

[desy2478]

Great video. No the trail doesn't look very technical but the video shows what mountain biking is all about and it's well filmed with good music.

[Nanoek1]

If I lived on Tenerife, I'd buy a mountain bike too and you'd find me riding those forest and mule tracks too :-)

Great vid, it really captures that feeling of ultimate freedom.

[davepinco]

that is not mountain biking!!! my old gran could do that and she's dead!!!

[liuwenjie6678]

a very happy guy!...