GASBAGS Lanzarote Cycling Tour in 2025

Описание: GASBAGS, Great Ayton & Stokesley Biking & Guzzling Society, has an annual cycling tour. These tours stretch back 35 years to when GASBAGS was first established. We agreed a tour of Lanzarote for 2025. The tour was facilitated by Mike Newton having scouted out the good routes in January 2024. Alec Paul mentioned about Cesar Manrique and the attractions that he had been involved in creating, which stimulated Mike to return in January 2025 and then using modified routes that toured around the main Lanzarote attractions, which, by chance, are mainly in the north of Lanzarote.
The GASBAGS team became Jeff & Pam King, Alec Paul, Ian Thompson, Naoko Motohiro and Mike Newton. Everything was planned which was helped by booking a Jet2 Holidays flight and hotel. Everyone chose to cycle on an e-bike so e-bikes were booked with 'e-bike Lanzarote'. So the day came to drive to Leeds-Bradford airport. Then disaster struck with Pam struck down by a dreadful virus, leading to the team being reduced to four. The YouTube tells the story of the actual ride.
We cycled 220 miles in 6 days with an elevation gain of 4040m.The 6 days cycling was very enjoyable with some amazing descents. The weather maintained a temperature between 20 to 23 DegC and we only had one very windy day. We were able to cycle around all but one of the planned attractions. This was the first time that we had stayed in the same hotel on our annual GASBAGS cycling holiday. It had been possible as six circular routes had been identified. There were several advantages: no need to pack and take panniers; comfortable rooms each day; eat as much we like after a ride and no need to search out restaurants. The team spirit was excellent with all four going around as a group to breakfast, dinner and coffee. Overall, in Mike’s view, this was one of the best GASBAGS annual rides.
Thanks to the renowned musical composer John Lowe whose music facilitates watching the YouTube all the way through. We all took photographs so I have included some from all the team members.