Originally Posted by
Caretaker
No, cycling is a legitimate way to do the Camino, so I wasn't 'cheating'. It's also legitimate to walk 100km to Santiago or cycle 200km. I cycled just over 1000km but because I had an accident and didn't (this year) do the last 200km by bike I don't claim to have completed it, yet.
I'd be more than willing to bet I could find people who walked it complaining that people who did it on a bike didn't go through the pains they went through, that they just blew by on their comfy bikes covering 100+km a day. I've met three people who have done it on my travels to Spain, all were non-athletic women walking many hundreds of kilometers of it.
In any case: did the church hand out certificates of completion to those on eBikes? If so, they are legitimate means of travel, as the church is the only one that gives any legitimacy tot he route to begin with.