| All bikes
come with a helmet (which is mandatory), lock, pump,
water bottle and a seat pack (with tube, levers, patch
kit). We recommend you bring your favorite cycling
shoes and shorts. (If you have a clip-less pedal / shoe
system on your bike, you may want to bring it along).
The bicycles we rent the
most are mountain bikes for a few reasons. A mountain
bike provides a wide gear selection to help tackle some
of the challenging steep hills. Mountain bikes have
powerful brakes to keep the bike in control while riding
downhill and on rough terrain.
Tortola offers the
cyclist with a variety of terrain. The sea road from
Road Town to West End provides 10 miles of flat roads
with a view of the surrounding islands along Drakes
Channel. At West End, you can choose to return to town
if you are on a road bike or continue around Steele
Point on the slightly hilly dirt road to Smugglers Cove
and Long Bay or take the paved road to the North side of
the island. From this point on, if you are up to the
challenge of windy hill, you will get a spectacular view
by riding up to Ridge Road where you then have many
options on the ride home. For the road bike cyclist who
likes a challenge, you can go from Road Town to East End
where you will have to climb 5 very short steep hills
(one of them extremely steep) each way, that should give
you a good interval work-out. There are numerous other
roads in and around the island to explore for the
Mountain biker. |
