@Lardyb - That sounds like a marathon camino! About twice the daily mileage that I’m planning on. Hope you have a great time!
@Penbaysail I did download that book. Looks good, looks like it’s just what I need.
I bought a used mountain bike in Pamplona, and some inexpensive bags and rear rack.
I feel a little nervous about just planning this in the space of a few days. I did ride around with a fully loaded bike yesterday, and because I started out as a walker, I actually hardly even noticed the extra gear on the bike. There isn’t that much of it.
Although I’ve never done any serious touring, I’ve been riding and repairing bikes for my whole life. But I guess that bikes have at home about 20 years old and have innertube tires.
The bike I bought had tubeless tires, and while I get the impression that they get a lot less flats, it seemed incredibly difficult to repair them if you ever do. At least according to my research on the Internet.
There’s what sounds like a real pro bike shop here in Pamplona, and I’ll go over there today and see if I can find someone who speaks enough English to explain to me about the tires.
As best I could ascertain from being at the decathlon, there is a plastic bottle with goop you can spray into the tires if you’ve got a small flat or as a preventative? The only brand I saw was called Hutchinson, But they didn’t seem to have the ones loaded with air or CO2 to really push it into the tire.
Any advice would be appreciated.
And This morning I’m going ship my empty backpack ahead a couple hundred miles.