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  1. Barbara

    E-bike charging on the camino - Contributing to cost

    Oh for heavens sake. How many times does it need to be explained? If you have to pedal, it's assistance. Not a motorcycle. Legitimate on tracks and qualifies for a Compostela.
  2. Barbara

    E-bike charging on the camino - Contributing to cost

    It's not complicated. If I walk a Camino I will probably manage two short days. Then I will spend a week with ice packs on my knees. If I ride a normal bike then once I get to a serious hill I will have to walk. Back to the ice packs. With an assisted bike or in my case a recumbent trike, I can...
  3. Barbara

    Seeking a Medium Camino Ready Gravel bike from SJPP from ~5 April 2024

    So maybe the OP doesn't want to walk for reasons that they haven't chosen to share? Plus where is it stated that they are carrying a lot of stuff? Maybe it's a question of taking time to visit. Actually, not everyone will walk that far in an average day. So how about actually providing a...
  4. Barbara

    UK to Santiago by bicycle

    Well, you weren't planning on swimming, were you? Yes, go that way, it is a historic route via Rouen and Chartres, then usually via Tours and Poitiers. If you like I can give you a link to my route notes as far as the Spanish border. PM me or post here.
  5. Barbara

    E-bike charging on the camino - Contributing to cost

    Lot of shouting going on here. I think the OP got it about right. But if you disagree that's your entitlement. Just please calm down and disagree quietly. Please.
  6. Barbara

    Bringing bike on train from Paris to SJPDP

    Now for the part from the airport. If you have built your bike I suggest you ride it to Montparnasse rather than struggling with the RER. 34 km of which 23 km is cycleway. Komoot shows the route if you want to take a look first. Bikemap gives more options as to route type but it's a little bit...
  7. Barbara

    from SJPP on a Brompton!

    Yes, of course you can. And, what's more, you can if need be, put it in a bus
  8. Barbara

    Do you wish you'd walked the Camino (instead of bicycling)?

    It's been an interesting read. I cycled my first Camino back in 2001. I didn't have much practical information, but I did read up on the history of the Saint James pilgrimage. Someone in Saint Catherine de Fierbois gave me a list of places to stay in France. It was quite short. I bought a guide...
  9. Barbara

    Own bike or renting ?

    Belgium? Get the train. Push the bike on. Connect at Lille rather than Paris if that works for you. Direct train (very early....) To Bordeaux. You can sleep in the youth hostel in Lille and you will need to book the bike and pay for it as it's a TGV.
  10. Barbara

    Pedals for biking

    Good question. Personally, unless you plan to be on the road all the time I would go for flats. I have single sided clip in pedals on my trike, but although clipping out is just the same, I find clipping in more of a problem as you have to get the right side uppermost. If you do decide on spd go...
  11. Barbara

    Bicycle danger near Castrojeriz

    Did my first Camino on a bike. I suspect I walked about twenty percent of it. I used the road when the track looked a bit dodgy. But of course in 2000 we didn't get a forum to tell us all this obvious stuff. Oh yes, I started about 700km before SJPP. Even then, there were signs and I owned a...
  12. Barbara

    Biking in the rain

    Get some thin gloves and a pair of washing up gloves. Hands get really cold riding, and good gloves are expensive. Washing up gloves aren't.
  13. Barbara

    UK to Santiago by bicycle

    I think the problem will be the stops. That's a lot of cathedrals, and if you want to raise awareness for your charity you will be spending time talking about it. Would you like to tell us here?
  14. Barbara

    Easy/safe road routes first 7 days?

    That all sounds like a plan. Vehicle hire is fairly cheap in Spain unless you want a one way hire. Biarritz to Bilbao wouldn't be a difficult journey to return a car or possibly a van. If you want to talk about electric trikes PM me.
  15. Barbara

    Easy/safe road routes first 7 days?

    What does your friend have to say about it? I think she is the one to be on this forum, involved in the planning. What I can say is that if by the ,"first seven days" you mean SJPP onwards you are choosing to start with a very hard day, but that you could have have a long glide downhill by...
  16. Barbara

    E bike

    You can normally remove the battery and take it inside to charge.
  17. Barbara

    e-Biking traject SJPP/Pamplona or Irun/Pamplona

    Mariposa, send me a PM with your email and I will send you the GPX files and a PDF map for the Plazayola and the route from there to Gares/Puente la Reina. The EV1 is a shared route for much of its length. And, for an EV, hilly.
  18. Barbara

    e-Biking traject SJPP/Pamplona or Irun/Pamplona

    Yes. As long as you have to pedal as well
  19. Barbara

    e-Biking traject SJPP/Pamplona or Irun/Pamplona

    Ok, I have found my route files and can tell you a bit more. First, the Arles route from Pau is fairly easy and you don't go anywhere near the tunnel, you go over the top. It is a long climb, but very short sections are actually steep. Then it is downhill, quite gently through Jaca to Puenta la...
  20. Barbara

    e-Biking traject SJPP/Pamplona or Irun/Pamplona

    I have a route from Puente de la Reina to Andoain which i rode to get to France, as bikes on the Spanish trains are a problem in many cases. Nothing desperately steep, decent surfaces. You would be doing it in reverse, of course. You can get to Andoain on the little train from Hendaye, with your...

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