Hello,
I have booked a B.A. flight to Iceland for June, returning in ten days.
My bike will be in a box, which I will have to dispose of when I arrive as I believe that there is no storage available.
I will not be visiting Rekjavik so my questions are;
-If I somehow manage to struggle to the Keflavik Campsite with it , is there storage ?
or
-Is there a bike shop in Keflavik where I might get one?
Also
This being my first trip to Iceland I have chosen just to stay around the South West area and check out all the Golden circle sites, particularly Geyser. Is there a a definitive or prefered route that uses the most bike friendly roads?
Any help, (even outside of my questions), be would be appreciated.
Thank-you.
You will find some relevant info here, check out page II as well. Observe the comments there on the road from Grindavík to Krysuvík, which is the main option for avoiding Reykjavík entirely (though you could use the road from the outskirts of Hafnafjordur to Krysuvík instead).
If you want to move a bike in a box to/from the airport without severe financial damage, I would suggest using the Flybus to Reykjavik, not that it is cheap either. Unfortunately the increased number of people arriving at the airport has made the queue for the Flybus more like a scrum, but perhaps it won' t be too ill-mannered in June.
There is a bike shop in Keflavík, see the list of bike shops courtesy of the Icelandic Mountainbike Club. Otherwise you could perhaps pick up some random cardboard boxes and sticky tape from one of the supermarkets in the Keflavik area (there is a big one on the main road to R about 7km from the airport), bungy it on your back rack and stick it all together at the airport.
On a bicycle, you can take in Thingvellir, Geysir and Gullfoss in a day, though you might choose to give more time to Thingvellir. You have plenty of time to check out Landmannalaugar, or Kjolur. Indeed 10 days is plenty for both, if you are clever with your route-planning and use bus assistance to start/end points. They should both be open unless it is early June and you are unlucky.
Dear Iviehoff,
Thank's for all the advice.
I was wondering about the possibility of random boxes and gaffer tape as a failsafe, it's good to know that it is an option..
This may be a naive question but is getting water ever an issue in this area on the Golden circle routes?
I will be cooking and usually planning to carry 1.5 litres per day.
Thank's .
0lski
SW of Gullfoss there is reasonably regular habitation. If using stream water, be careful to choose streams coming off the mountain rather than across fields, there is a lot of farming in the area. There is very little surface water on the Reykjanes peninsular. Water issues on Kjolur and Landmannalaugar are covered in detail in my notes referred above. If you want to be able to camp in a location without a water source, as I have done on both those routes, a larger water-carrying capacity would be advisable.
Hi!
i spent 5 weeks biking around iceland in 2005, and we didn't find the water a problem...we used collapsable storage like a platypus for extra volume, and that worked really well...think you will need more than 1.5lt per day, think at least 2.5 with cooking...
bike transport- we got a bike-box here, and dumped it in a skip at the airport. on return we went to another bike shop in Reykjavik, which kindly gave us 2 more boxes, which we dismantled and re assembled with loads of tape in the airport after the bus ride back...was a piece of cake really! good luck with your trip! p.s. the free-camping in random locations we stumbled across was about the best bit for me....
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