Making my way through Spain
In The WildWhat fork bag mounts are you using? I have had trouble finding a good fit with only two screws.
They’re from Planet X. I mount them on the upper two holes. Wrapped an old innertube around the fork where the third, the lowest hole is. Works fine.
Walkin fast faces pass and I'm home bound
Which route you doing
Something of my own making. Started from Sevilla with a day on the Via de la Plata, then took a right onto Transandalus. Both were beautiful but I had some stuff I wanted to see in Extremadura, so went north while Transandalus continued south-eastwards. There’s another MTB route I could’ve picked up at Talavera de la Reina, which goes straight to Madrid from there, but I went up the Sierra de los Gredos to chill on a camping with some nice mountainviews. I tried the gravelsuggestions from Komoot here, but they’re definitely more suited to FS MTB or just regular hiking.
Sounds beautiful! Interesting so would you say the Komoot gravel routes are more suited to mountain bikes in spain? I see you can input cycle touring routes too, I guess that would find easier routes?
It does, but touring mode tends to stick to the roads. It seems to look for the easiest, shortest way, with the least traffic.
Tricky one, I’d try and use gravel if possible but switch to road when it gets too much for the bike . Be good if there was one in between the two
Komoot has a filter for ready made bikepacking tours, it should have one in the planner as well, a median between touring and gravel.
How do you access it? Is that the paid version? I haven’t used it properly yet (free version) but mine seems to just have cycle touring or gravel routes
(In a Vanessa Carlton accent)
Riding from Sevilla to Madrid on my Specialized Diverge. Started with a bit of the Via de la Plata and Transandalus. Made my way up through Extremadura, now on the last stretch to Madrid.