CUBAN MOTORCYCLE ROAD GUIDE

The Cuban road guide has responsibility for taking care of the motorcycle fleet and resolving any mechanical hiccups on the road. It is obligatory in Cuba for a road guide to accompany rental bikes.

Most tours operated by the three companies with whom Christopher works include as your Cuban road guide Christopher’s friends Anivar Hayes (BMW F700s, BMW 1250GSs, and Harley-Davidsons), Luis Enrique González (BMW F700s), and Ernesto Guevara and Camilo Sánchez (Harley-Davidsons).

If any of these guides unavailable, we will work with another trusted road guide known to Christopher.

LUIS ENRIQUE GONZÁLEZ 
Luis Enrique has more experience leading group motorcycle tours in Cuba than any other Cuban motorcycle enthusiast and road guide. Between 2013-16 he worked alongside Chris to lead the very first motorcycle tours in Cuba for U.S. citizens using BMW 1200GSs, F700s, and a medley of Harley-Davidsons. Since 2017, he has acted as lead guide for one of Germany's leading motorcycle touring companies and has led scores of tours throughout Cuba end-to-end. An English-speaker, he’s a natural raconteur and all-around “colorful character” with a Rolodex of contacts throughout Cuba (his personal history includes as a mariner and, in the 1980s, as a Lieutenant in Cuba’s Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias in charge of an anti-aircraft battery in Angola). Luis is also responsible for maintaining Profil Cuba-Reisen’s fleet of F700s in Cuba. A superb mechanic, Luis exemplifies Cubans’ resourcefulness, ingenuity and indefatigable good humor. When not leading tours, Luis loves tinkering with his collection of pre-revolutionary Harley-Davidsons, a miscellany of other antique motos, plus his 1948 Buick. NOTE: DUE TO CURRENT U.S. EMBARGO REGULATIONS, PROFIL CUBA-REISEN'S BMW F700 GS FLEET IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY FLEET THAT MAY LEGALLY BE USED IN CUBA

ANIVAR HAYES 
Anivar Hayes and Chris have led several tours of Cuba together on behalf of the world’s largest bike touring company. Anivar is responsible for maintaining a Cuban-based fleet of BMWs F700s and 1200GSs, plus various Harley-Davidsons. A harlista (Cuba’s proud owners of pre-revolutionary Harley-Davidsons), Anivar is an exceptional guide with an intimate knowledge of virtually every road in Cuba. Like Luis and other fellow harlistas, he’s also an astoundingly gifted and creative mechanic, capable of at diagnosing and fixing virtually any mechanical problem. Anivar has led dozens of group motorcycle tours around Cuba and is dedicated to guests’ welfare. His calm, amenable personality combines with professional training at a motorcycle tour-guide academy in Austria. You could not be in more capable hands! NOTE: THESE MOTORCYCLES ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE IN CUBA

ERNESTO GUEVARA 
Owner and lead guide for La Poderosa Tours, Cuba’s only “indigenous” motorcycle tour company, Ernesto has motorcycles in his blood. His father, the revolutionary hero “Che” Guevara, famously rode his Norton–nicknamed ‘La Poderosa’ (the powerful one)–through South America, and Ernesto has had a fascination with Harley-Davidsons and mechanics since he was a child. A true member of Cuba’s harlista community, he is down-to-earth, affable and fun-loving and, obviously, a trove of fascinating stories, including of his university studies in Moscow, and his time serving with the Cuban military in Angola during their independence war (he also helps run the Che Guevara Study Center, in Havana; his father was killed while Ernesto was still an infant). Trained as a lawyer and now in his late ’50s, Ernesto has decades of experience riding his 1948 Harley-Davidson Panhead throughout Cuba, and leading foreign groups on his fleet of modern HD models. NOTE: DUE TO CURRENT U.S. EMBARGO REGULATIONS, THESE MOTORCYCLES  MAY PRESENTLY NOT LEGALLY BE USED IN CUBA