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  1. Older Guy

    Cycling Roncesvalles to Santiago in 36 hours!

    To each their own. I did a bike CF in May 2016. A big part of my memories were taking time to talk to people and fellow pilgrims, picnic, attend mass at all the cathedrals, do tourist sight seeing at towns and cities.
  2. Older Guy

    What are the chances of me cycling the camino de santiago?

    13 days is doable, but doesn't give you much in the way of rest/recovery days or days where you stay put due to very bad weather. The point is that if you run into trouble and need to keep to your completion date, you will have 3 options. (1) give up. (2) figure out where you can bus or train...
  3. Older Guy

    Cycling - Frances vs Norte/Camping vs Not/Road vs actual route

    My 2 cents. I did a bike CF in May 2016 Pamplona to Santiago with a train trip from Leon to Ponferrada because of horrible rain that turned trails to mud and had water running over roads. Ponferrada is 200+ km from Sanitago so you can still get a Compostella. Mine was for religious...
  4. Older Guy

    The 'politics' of bikers passing walkers on the trail

    I remember where I came up on a church congregation carrying a cross on one segment of the Camino F. While they blocked the entire trail, I didn't really care, so I dismounted and walked behind them in their procession and listened to their singing. That was inspirational and added to the...
  5. Older Guy

    The 'politics' of bikers passing walkers on the trail

    A word from a polite biker who always used his bell. Sometimes hikers will walk 3 abreast, have sharp treking poles strapped horizontally to their packs making them twice as wide, and sometime, they will move right-stop-then move left confounding even even the most polite biker. In all these...
  6. Older Guy

    Very Very Confused, With a Bike

    Dear Isabel; I did a Camino Francis by mountain bicycle in May of 2016. I did train for it on spin bikes and also on roads/trails with typical 40 to 60 mile daily rides. My Camino legs/stages were typically shorter than 45 miles. This past summer 2017, I did a 400 mile coast to coast across...
  7. Older Guy

    Cycling From Pamplona To Santiago In 7 Days

    I took a lot longer. I have biked several times the Seattle to Portland 205 mile, 2-day bike ride. You can do the Camino is 7 days---maybe. I wouldn't recommend it, the typical time most folks take by bike is about 2 weeks, and I took more. Most treat the Camino as a pilgrimage and not...
  8. Older Guy

    Which Route Is The Flattest??

    I was 68 when I biked the CF. The last 200 km are not flat. I have no experience with the other routes. There are a couple things to think about in regards to days with real hills. You can always send your luggage (painniers) ahead to the next place you will sleep. It if is very hilly...
  9. Older Guy

    Camino del Norte - September 2016

    So how did it turn out? I would take more time, but to each their own.
  10. Older Guy

    Best time to start cycling the camino frances in July

    As long as you are willing to go with the flow and aren't crazy about time and distance everything should work out just fine. There were times when the trail was narrow, that I would get off my bike and walk it behind a large group until the trail widened a lot or until we met a road. Then I...
  11. Older Guy

    sunday bycicle support

    It is too late to help you now, but I always carry a bike pump, a pressure gauge and a CO2 inflator. Most people don't know how to use a CO2 Inflator, but if you try one at home, you will get the hang of it pretty quickly. I too have never been able to get those tiny pumps to work very well...
  12. Older Guy

    Looking for a reliable tour guide/agency for biking the Camino

    I cycled this May from Pamplona to Santiago, with a gap of about 100 miles between Sahagun and Ponferrada. I made sure I biked the last 200 km to get a Compostella, but the rain was so horrible before Sahagun and the next few days after that I took the train for part of the trip, to retain...
  13. Older Guy

    Biking from Burgos to Santiago

    I did the Camino in May of this year. I used http://www.cycling-rentals.com/ and was quite pleased. I brought my own helmet, pedals and bike seat and had them set up the bike exactly like the one I own. I also took extra tools, CO2 inflator nozzle, air pressure guage and first aid kit. You...
  14. Older Guy

    PLEASE get a BELL for your bike

    OK, as someone who did the CF this summer, starting in Pamplona, I had two bells on my bike. One I brought from home and one put on the bike by the rental company. I have always been taught that when I approach folks, I need to be in control of my bike. Sometimes I road roads, and sometimes I...
  15. Older Guy

    Biking the Camino from Pamplona in Oct. 2016- Advice/Itinerary

    I rented from"Cycling Rentals" In my opinion 12 days is too short. I started in Pamplona, had really horrible rain, cut my trip 450 mile by 100 miles by taking the train part of the way, and still took about 14 days. I could have done it in less, but I wanted to balance tourism, pilgrimage...
  16. Older Guy

    Pamplona to santiago de compostela

    Hola St Mike II! Thanks so much for the information. An MTB hard tail has a front suspension but is a little more built for off trail than a hybrid, more play in the suspension and different frame geometry. So the Pamplona/Alto del Perdon is tough because first day, trail conditions and...
  17. Older Guy

    Pamplona to santiago de compostela

    I am curious and would appreciate a little more information. I will be starting my MTB hardtail Camino in Pamplona. I would like to do most of it on the trail (but there are places where I know that the road may be better especially if it is muddy or really rocky or steep down hill). My...
  18. Older Guy

    Cycling Shorts: Road or Mountain Biking Type?

    My 2 cents. On long distance rides I wear padded road bike shorts (skin tight lycra). Over them I wear CWX stabilyx tights. The reason is warmth and more importantly, performance. CWX tights are a kind of performance compression tights. They are different in that the have special inserts...
  19. Older Guy

    Shipping saddle, pedals, shoes, helmet and bike clothes home from Camino

    .....I found the following on Trip Advisor and like the idea of using a hotel concierge deal with the Spanish post office. 'Best' is always relative, but the most economical will be heading to a Post Office ('Correos'), buy there a shipping box and mail it by 'Economic International Parcel'...
  20. Older Guy

    Shipping saddle, pedals, shoes, helmet and bike clothes home from Camino

    Thank you for the suggestion, I will check out their prices

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