Bikes

[Jean Seeler]

You probably will spend more money renting a bike than the $70 to $150 for a discount store bike.  Also, you would have to return it to the point of rental.  who wants to go backward?   You can get bke in the luggage compartment of the bus (if the driver is willing) and hop forward.   We took our bikes, still in their shipping cartons, on the bus from Madrid to Pamplona where we started.  There are buses to other major cities from Madrid if you want to start short of Pamplona.   If you want to start at St. Jean or Roncesvalles, check the archives for info on buses fromPamplona,or people with picklup trucks for hire.

    jean seeler    biked the camino in '01 and '03

-----Original Message-----
From: Ali Hadley <alicataICEHOUSE.NET>
Sent: Feb 16, 2004 10:33 AM
To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
Subject: Re: Bikes

That's a great idea, but I was thinking of biking a section, rather than the
whole.  I wondered if there was such a thing as bike rental.  Ali
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hansen" <VeloTrainaPEOPLEPC.COM>
To: <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Bikes


> Ali -
>
> It's not clear if you're planning to do the whole Camino on a bike or plan
> to walk it and want to bike just a section of it.  If the former, one
option
> to consider is that used by Jean Seeler and her husband on two Caminos:
>
> "When we went we bought mountain bikes in Walmart, unassembled and in
their
> boxes.  Bikes have to be in boxes to get them on the airplane and they
count
> as one of your two pieces of luggage.  We buy the largest suitcse we can
> find to pack the luage racks, helmets, panniers and our clothing, You are
> not going to go fast enough to justify taking your own very good bike (we
> think.)   At the end of the trip we give our bikes to two local kids, pack
> our stuff in cardboard boxes and come home looking like refugees.  "
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ali Hadley" <alicataICEHOUSE.NET>
> To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:39 PM
> Subject: Bikes
>
>
> > I would like to consider biking "part" of the road and wonder if there
is
> > such a thing as "one-way" rental?  Does anyone have information about
> this?
> > Alison  Spokane, WA. USA
> >