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Going Downhill in Tenerife for Ten Years

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Tenerife Rafting Bike - the first bike trailerThere can’t be many people who can proudly say that their business has been going downhill for ten years but here at Rafting Bike we are happy to say just that.

When Rafting Bike was born, some of the equipment we needed, like the specialised trailer for the bikes didn’t exist and we had to invent and adapt what was currently available.

This photo was taken in November, 1999 on one of the first Rafting Bike excursions that we made and it shows the cumbersome and expensive first attempt at our trailer.

We’ve gone through four design changes since then and though the trailer we are using today is still not perfect it is a whole lot better than that bulky blue contraption.

In those days the bikes were trailed up to the starting point, at 2,200 meters high, by  a 1973 Volkswagen jeep. Nowadays we use the latest of the several Rafting Bike vans that we have had.

In the past ten years we have been told by the thousand of people who have gone raft biking with us that it was the highlight of their Tenerife trip. Really we are lucky to say we have been going downhill for ten years because how many other people do you know that get to do something they love but who also get to make so many people happy at the same time?

So, what are you waiting for? Fill in the simple  contact form and let’s get your Rafting Bike trip organised. :)