Originally Posted by
Robert C
I feel embarrassed, instead of getting into a pointless argument, I should have just gone and looked at the rules.
Cool, thanks for the link! I had completely forgotten about the certificate issuance at the end until the 100/200k requirements were brought up, and then that clicked in my mind. Its been a few years since I talked with one of the ladies that I knew that had done it, I was doing an English teaching stint in Spain and never kept in touch with her.
Originally Posted by
Caretaker
You're presuming this was all on tarmac roads, it wasn't. The route is designed for walkers and so rough in places that you're taking serious risks riding it on a hybrid as I was. For me as for most (as surveys have shown) it wasn't a religious journey so when I see a young person doing it on an Ebike it shocks and concerns me that this might be the start of a trend.
In that case, with an ebike not really making much of a difference (and sites advising it as ill suited for the journey anyways), it shouldn't make much of a difference. 350htrr and I are seemingly in agreement: you yourself are doing in in the less popular way that allows you to cover more ground (at least parts of the trail) much faster than a walker. I'm not implying it was easy by any means, and this topic has put something I had completely forgotten about back on my radar (so thanks for that
) but that you are indeed using a device that allows you to move faster and easier than another allowable method.
I'm sure there are probably the religious folks that have a problem with people doing it just for the fun of it, too, and worried that the religious meaning will be drowned out by adventure seekers.
Originally Posted by
BigAura
Really??? Where did I do that???
The insistence that a bike has to fit YOUR definition, that one cannot say they are touring by bike if they have a battery pack that assists their pedaling. They're on two wheels, pedaling, and not in competition with you. Why else would you care so much what they label their activity?
In any case, now that a link has been provided saying there is nothing illegal with them being used, the issue is fairly closed. We can argue if we agree with the rule, but the people that hand out the completion certificates have no issues, so I fail to see why I should either