Right, back from Portugal, had a great afternoon riding Sintra-Cascais Natural Park.
Have to give props to FunBike in Sintra, e-mailed these guys from Sweden last Tuesday lunch and they picked me up from my hotel in Lisbon less than 24hrs later! Wow…
The guide was really cool, 30 years of riding the area as a local, in fact I think he was the first MTB rider in the area, so an actual local legend.
The hire bike wasn’t anything to write home about but it worked, I think next season FunBike will have more higher end MTB kit for hire. Right now they mainly have high end carbon road bikes for hire.
Trails are different, mainly hard sand based, climbing on double track roads and then decending on technical trails; a classic being the Trail of Bridges and the DH/Enduro route Trilho da Pedra Branca. The latter being very interesting on a hardtail al low end bike with pogo forks 😆
Anyway, so so recommend FunBike in Sintra if you’re in the region and want to hire/ride MTB or Road 8)