tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63203427750754737662012-01-20T19:29:49.665-08:00Collection of stories and pictures about my MDE mountain bikes and places where I have been riding.Funridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16159321404886552914noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320342775075473766.post-49814915996909277112010-10-23T03:46:00.000-07:002010-10-23T03:46:24.634-07:00

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."Albert Einstein Enjoy the following videos on cycling safety: Remember to ride safely! On your bike and through your life!

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After all this time without posting I finally have the time to write... the bad news are the fact that I only have time because I can not ride. I felt while passing through a ditch and hit the ground hard with my chest. After a while I started feeling pain every time I breath or did some movement and so I suspected of a broken rib. X-rays and all but thankfully no fracture was found:

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That´s right, Amarelo made history for Portugal! Even though the bad weather and the poor wet conditions the race went through with no major injuries on the slippery track. It was the first time a Portuguese rider wins this event! Congratulations Paulo :)

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Checkout the new MDE bikes advert: This is the new MDE Player - specific for Freeride and Slop style.

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That´s right, my favorite Mountain Bikes builder has a new website and I can assure you it´s really great. New MDEbikes website MDE bikes has renewed its site once more and this time they also presented some more frame models. Beside the aesthetic factors what drew my attention were the new frames, specially the new Cudgel (XC) with the i-Link rear suspension system and the new Carver with a

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I have not been riding lately because I went through another surgery, this time to my left wrist. That is the main reason of all this time without posting here. It is true I made several very good rides before the surgery but time was too short and I didn´t managed to find the time to write :( During the last three weeks I had the time but I didn´t want to think about bikes... I believe I´ll

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Sometimes I feel like time is never enough... why? Why can´t we live our lives in slow motion!? Things would be much easier, tasks would never be postponed and we would have time to keep our blog posts updated... eheheheheh Last month has been full of work but fortunately also great rides. After buying the Garmin Edge 705 HR I started to play with it and enjoying all the info it gives me. The

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I want to start by apologizing to all of you for all this time without any update. This does not mean that I haven´t rode lately, matter of fact I have been riding more than ever, the problem has been my work which has taken almost all my time. Let´s see, since my last post I have made several mountain bike crossings and also some marathons. First I started by going through the first two stages

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After more than a year waiting for the moment when I could start participating on the low-cost mountain bike Portugal crossing, I finally was able to join this amazing journey.The VPBTT (Portugal Crossing on Mountain Bike) began in the end of 2007 and has been crossing Portugal from Lisbon through the South Portugal littoral, it went across the Algarve and now it started to rise north through

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Well, in fact it has been ready for almost a month but as soon as I got my new full suspension mountain bike assembled I couldn´t let it go so I have been riding since then LOL.OK, I am kidding. The truth is I have been really busy with work and I have not been able to post here.My new assembled mountain bikeNow that I have rode more than 300km I can say that I have found my new lover and it was

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As I have told you earlier I was expecting the arrival of my brand new full suspension mountain bike frame. And after a torturous wait it finally arrived yesterday!!!Can you feel my excitement!?Before I present it here I must warn everybody to put sunglasses on because it will become brighter and shiny in this post. You know how stars can shine, don`t you?Are you ready!?My brand new "shining"

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That is right, after two "muddy" week-ends I am sure both my skin and my bike have never been smoother LOL. I must admit I am starting to think if I should wait for better weather before going back on the trails again. Too many expenses with maintenance are making me consider the possibility of staying home and pedal on the spinning bike only.This was before last Saturday night ride under a big

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That is right, MDE bikes just launch its new 2009 website with a new design, lots of pictures and latests informations. If the old one was already very easy and intuitive to navigate through all the information, the new one it is even better.New year equals new "face"!And that was what MDEbikes has done, but although having changed the image it will maintain its fresh happy feeling without

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I woke up yesterday and immediately felt the urge to ride all day. I began by warming up doing a little road to get to the beach and breath some of that marvelous ocean air while standing there watching the waves hitting the sand (Sorry, I forgot I had the camera).After that refreshing moment I pointed to the trails and ride 20km until getting to Óbidos village where I went uphill to the castle.

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That´s right, while waiting for my new full suspension frame to arrive I decided to join a group of friends (more than 30) who were going to revenge the fact that one of them did not reach the end of one of the latest mountain bike rides they had made. The challenge was to ride more than 100km (60miles) on trails between Casa Branca and Pinhal Novo (Portugal).Even though it was a bit cold that

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That´s right, my new frame is ready for finishing. Thanks to Giuseppe`s photo I can now dream with my new frame LOL.It´s great to see my new baby being held by the skillful hands who made "her", thank you so much Federico! I can not wait to have "her" here ready for assembling and be able to start riding her through all those trails which she will love so much.I don´t know if it´s because it´s

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After more than a year after my last mountain bike vacations to the French Alps where I broke both wrists I am back on the trails again :)I have been training myself to be able to do almost all those things I used to do with my mountain bikes but most of all to feel happy and alive doing one of the things I like the most: riding bicycles!After a couple months of trainings I am already able to

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For those who are curious about the bicycle trailer on this blog starting photo I decided to reveal all about it. On the left you can see my MDE Slider XC with the ExtraWheel trailer attached to it.That bike trailer it is an ExtraWheel and it is the world´s lightest one wheel bicycle trailer available. I have been using it for some time and I can only say it was the best invention after the wheel

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There are Italian bicycles brands that almost everyone knows, some of them because they are around for more than a century others because they present some of the most attractive designs and technological innovations. We can talk about Bianchi, Sintesi or even Carraro and we will only find topnotch products with very high quality standards.But this is also true if we talk about more recent

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Preparing to leave..."Feeding" the truck.Driving...We finally got there!Time for a little rest.She was loving it...She was needing a bath.Finally she had her bath!

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MDE SliderMDE Boulder S

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