It’s articles like this in the German magazines that interest me. Lots of bike manufacturers use Tenerife for press launches, so we get blurb in the British magazines about the bikes but nothing about the roads the went along, as if it is some super secret. Tourenfahrer and the other magazines are different, in that they have assorted contributors who submit articles, often with very good and clear information. Yes, someone always criticises that the article misses out 15 awesome miles of the awesome D123ABC from X to Y (as if this ruins everything) but that is to miss the point entirely; at least the magazine is having a go.
A good example of an interesting contribution to the latest Tourenfahrer is an article on touring over many thousands of miles from Finland, up to the top of Norway and back to Finland via Sweden, in the real depths of winter with studded tyres. The article is one thing - and not many from the UK will ever do it, even in summer - but at least they published it, along with a very clear route map.
https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/fjordwaerts-1-abschnitt-1016/detail/
https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/fjordwaerts-2-abschnitt-1017/detail/
https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/fjordwaerts-3-abschnitt-1018/detail/
https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/fjordwaerts-4-abschnitt-1019/detail/
Someone looking to do the same but in summer, might want to adopt or adapt the routes taken? That is where the value lies.
The other reason why I share them here, is because they build into a small database. More importantly, it gives bods the chance (as, say, Blackblade-erry has done) to pass some comment and a picture or two on their experience. Which, hopefully, makes it interesting for others, who might not necessarily ever thought of going to Tenerife.
PS I have been to some of the places in the depths of winter, not least as we used to reinsure the ‘Iron Railway’ (built by an Englishman) to carry iron ore from Sweden to Norway and from there by ship for export. One year, it fell to minus 40 C, cold enough to crack the steel rails and snap the retaining bolts. By way of reference, minus 40 is just about the temperature that EU intervention beef was stored at in specialist deep freeze ‘hangers’. Nature did it over hundreds if not thousands of square miles, for weeks at a time.