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I agree, I paid a visit by bike a couple of years ago. I just couldn't think why there were so many vehicles, when everything is virually within walking distance unless you need to go into Spain.
Did you ride up to the rock?

Can anyone (perhaps someone who works in a tea shop?) explain why many (most?) of them will put a paper napkin underneath a piece of cake? It just goes soggy so it can't be used as a napkin.

...it's not going to rust or corrode in any way... The seatpost itself won't, but some titanium frames have aluminium inserts in the seat tube. The presence of a titanium seatpost against the aluminium in an area that may get quite wet can result in the aluminium corroding. Yes, and an Al seatpost ...

If you're on FB you could try joining and asking the Eurovelo group there https://www.facebook.com/groups/2291565217760811/

Thanks to all for the replies. I too have flown with my bike in a bag a few times and haven't had any problems - but I didn't want to open up the general discussion of soft bag/ LBS box / hard case options. Apart from protecting the forks more, I thought that removing them would make for a more comp...

I'm wondering if, with carbon forks and packing the bike in a soft bag rather than a box, does it make any sense to remove the fork? Fitting a spacer between the dropouts only protects one source of potential damage; the fork still sticks out from the rest of the frame. Or maybe forks are strong eno...

A small area study in Canada (which should be far less vulnerable to the well-known problems in most national casualty and traffic statistics) finds that building cycleways reduces cycling casualties even on nearby streets and attributes it to safety in numbers as a likely mechanism. But many cycli...

The coast roads are indeed pretty bad, just a string of resorts SW from Malaga. There's plans for Eurovelo route 8 but mostly* it isn't yet in place at all. (One stretch of it a few miles SE of Cadiz just runs along a beach, loose sand for several miles, as a result of which I dodn't have time to ge...

I'm still trying to get my head around all this ... .... I think that the companies here in the UK deliberately use crappy tar so as to stay in business same goes for countries such as Germany .... roads are good with very few potholes and similar weather and traffic Depends on the local council an...

I think there's a fair bit of difference between a simple pothole and subsidence. A pothole is caused by the top layer(s) of tarmac have coming adrift, usually started by water getting into a small crack and freezing. This is often around a drain cover or similar. But if the underlying road bed is s...

Croatia is beautiful but perhaps one of my least favourite in Europe as far as traffic is concerned. The drivers seem to have a thing about not crossing white lines, so tend to pass too close. The islands should be quieter than the mainland though. Be aware that many of the island ferries don't take...

Mrs Whoof did most of it this year. She recommends the road that used to be the main road. Please see link to journal below that describes the route. She went from Malaga to the Southern most point in Spain to start but you could start by going to Cordoba. https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1mr...

in around 1985 I was involved in running a product development workshop, partly funded by the (now defunct) GLC in London. There was a small company working there developing an e-Bike based on the (then new) regulations. IIRC it was powered by NiMH batteries. I think it was a basc throttle control, ...

Not sure if this post belongs here or in 'touring' but I'll start here. I'm wondering about the possibility of cycle-camping with a standard road bike and a (single-wheel) trailer fitted with motor and battery. The idea is that the trailer would let me carry more equipment (I'm getting old now; need...

The article has at the end: Over the next two years, the network will expand north to Dunkirk, and one would hope that it’s only a matter of time before this brilliantly simple idea makes the leap across the Channel. For this surely is the future of cycle touring: the days of the old-school map are ...