Today I’ve left Bilbao and headed to the Coast, to ride for a while on some roads just meters above the sea. It feels so good that I could ride this roads for ages !!! It’s just a small road, with one lane per direction, but it flows with the coast, making the same curves that the sea has created along the centuries on the rock. It’s difficult to explain (like lots of things that surround our passion, Harleys), but I feel in peace when I ride here. It’s like a comunion with everything that surrounds me. Some people call it the “Zen” of riding. I don’t call it. Just enjoy it.

After some kilometers, we will change roads, and head inland, to have fun on other roads. We will try to avoid the traffic as much as we can, but a little bit of major roads is compulsory to get to where I want to take the group to. But it’s worth it. I want you to not only have fun on the coast roads, but also discover the roads that climb the mountains of the area. I hope you like them as much as I do.

Once we’ve enjoyed them, we head north again, to the Coast, looking for our destination. A small spa close to Zarautz where all our tensions will go away, as the group will have access to the talasotherapy area, and our sored muscles will relax again with the different jets, cascades and the healthy effect of hot water. It’s a well earned treatment, that I hope you enjoyed as much as I just have….

Besides, the hotel is on top of the beach, which seems to be the perfect place to stretch and wait for dinner time…..or to see a magnificent sunset like today’s, don’t you think?

Plenty of options, plenty of emotions, as you can see.

I’ll keep you updated as the trip goes on.

See you on the road !!

The start of the Twist & Twins tour

This is the hotel were the group will gather together upon arrival, to start the Twist & Twins tour, the Parador of Santillana del Mar. 35 kms from Santander, and perfect for us.

From there, the group will ride together to enjoy a great tour. 10 days from the Cantabric Sea to the Mediterranean Sea on Harley. From Santander to Barcelona, visiting Bilbao, San Sebastian and other cities along the way.

The roads are great. A nice combination of small local roads with medium “National” roads with nice tarmac to relax from the twisties.

We will not ride long hours. The kilometers of the day could be ridden in 4 hours (or less depending on your skills and speed..), but it will take us 5 or 6 hours, because we will stop as much as the group wants to.

The idea is to get to Bilbao – where the first day finishes – not later than 5 p.m., so that anyone can relax their one way, either walking around bilbao (the hotel is very well located, at walking distance from the Guggenheim), or just relax at a terrace with a big beer waiting for dinner time.

Only one final recomendation. Don’t forget your sun’s cream !!

I’ll keep you posted on the try-out.

See you on the road !!

I tried to fix it myself, but the difference between the point of maximum tension and the point of minimum tension is excesive and causes problems, specially as temperature increases….and this is Spain, my friends…. So, hopefully, tomorrow I’ll have a new chain in place, and I’ll head to the start of the tour: Santillana de Mar, a “living museum” of a medieval village.

View of the streets of Santillana del Mar, exit point of the Twists & Twins tour.

I’ll be test riding the whole tour, as well as proof-riding the road-book, and visiting every hotel along the way, so that everything is checked so that the minimum problems arise, and that every client of Spain On Twins gets the best possible service and information.

Before I go to sleep, just a quick word to publicly thank the people at the HD Dealer @ Bilbao. A great bunch of guys willing to help and do anything they can to fix my problem. Also a big thank you to the guy at HD Santander. They were closed, but as he could see me through his office’s window talking to the people on the street, he came downstairs, opened the shop, went out to the street and came by me to ask if he could help me anyway. Then he took me inside, and booked me a place for tomorrow morning with one of the mechanics, to be sure that I receive proper attention.

That’s the kind of service I expect at a Harley-Davidson dealer. A good mix between profesionality and biker’s brotherhood. Simply great. I just hope every dealer were like them…

I’ll keep you posted along the way.

Stay tuned.

See you on the road !!