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Sorry Redbike, Also if your biking the VDLP either ride tubeless or put slime in your tyres. I managed to get 5 punctures within 4 days (they have these prickly weeds that punctured my tyres) until I got to Puebla de Sanabrea where I went to see Ramiro at his bike workshop He was awesome and...
Hi ya Redbike, If your doing the VDLP it is another solitary one Im afraid. I met 6 cyclists along the whole route and really only saw them at different albergues. Not too many walking pilgrims and I think because the route is sometimes longer than a normal 30k day. I did it last September...
Awesome, thanks for that. I looked on the Buen Camino app and figured that was where you went wrong. I also uploaded the Camino de Madrid guidebook on my phone which did mention the alternative path. I figure ill be taking the Green path for sure. Great to hear back. If I get time I will do...
Awesome thread redbike. I am a kiwi bicigrina and starting this camino in September but backwards from SDC to Madrid. Hopefully it will be uneventful and rather drier then when you rode this camino. :)
Thank you for your reply Dave. I have already done Portuguese and Frances walking and last year biked the Del Norte to SDC then Portuguese down to Porto and Via De la Plata back to SDC so being on my own shouldn't bother me too much.
In fact I'll probably be looking forward to the solitude as...
Hi Dave, I am intending biking this camino from Santiago via Sahagun to Madrid as I fly out from there. Do you think it could be hard doing this in the reverse. I will have travelled many kms by then as I am riding from Paris and taking in a couple other caminos along the way. Also wondering if...
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