Boas people.

Here there are a few photos of a last morning in the Mountain range of the Help (Towers Vedras). Besides the great scenery in the top, the mountain range of the help has 2 traces of spectacular DH, with 300m of unevenness and 2 km of extension, each one.

There are very accessible traces to the one who has not 200mm of suspension course in the bicycle, and are a guaranteed fountain of adrenalin and of amusement!

Soon in the beginning of the rise for the top, we find something that left us bewildered! Would it be a giant turkey that avoided the last Christmas supper? Would a tiled sparrow be a mutante? I do not do the least idea, it is the certain one that finds them to me a GIANT passarolho, with nearly 1 meter of height, and approximately 3 meters of wingspan of wings (enormous!). After a few inquiries, I think that it is the question of a dark-Vulture (Aegypius monachus). One of the biggest birds of the world, which can reach 15 kg of weight (for a "chicken" it is immense) and that is about to extinction, being rare to catch sight of a bird of this in Portugal!! Seria um pardal telhado mutante? Não faço a mínima ideia, o certo é que encontra-mos um passarolho GIGANTE, com cerca de 1 metro de altura, e uns 3 metros de envergadura de asas (enorme!). Após umas pesquisas, penso que se trata de um Abutre-fusco (Aegypius monachus). Uma das maiores aves do mundo, que pode atingir 15kg de peso (para um “frango” é imenso) e que se encontra em vias de extinção, sendo raro avistar uma ave destas em Portugal!!

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Pray hurray! After some absence time, here a videozinho goes with some scenes in action of my new Specialized Pitch! Filmed in the trace of Downhill of the Mountain range of the Help (Turcifal – Towers Vedras), and also in the Cuckoos and surroundings. Be entertained seeing An Embrace Entretenham-se a ver Um Abraço

Link YOUTUBE (here)

Link VIMEO (here)

Congratulations to juniors' selection that disputed today in Canberra in the Australia the championship of the world.
The selection obtained the next results:

SAILOR ° Ricardo Paul Reis with a 2nd spectacular place with a 1:32:20 AM time
RODRIGUES ° David Miguel Costa at 10th place with a 1:36:27 AM time
COAST ° Mario Luis Miranda at 64th place

The one who won the championship of the juniors' world of this year was the Italian KERSCHBAUMER ° Gerhard with an excellent 1:31:01 AM time.

Again Congratulations to the tugas for these excellent results.

The Portuguese Federation of Cycling communicated what the national selection of cycling of the whole land (BTT) disputes this Friday, in the juniors' levels and sub-23, the championships of the World, which they carry out in Camberra.

In the same notice, the Federation shows that four athletes will move to the Australian world championships, three in the category of juniors and one in of sub-23.

The federation of cycling indicates that “the bet in the valuable formation in the only Olympic discipline of BTT” takes as an objective “getting international results and, in the medium term, the first night of a Portuguese athlete in the Plays of 2012 ″.

The notice indicates that Tiago Ferreira, bicampeão national, represents Portugal in the category sub-23.

In juniors, the Portuguese representation is composed by Ricardo Marinheiro, bicampeão junior who competes in Camberra after a prolonged injury, David Rodrigues, who won in May, in Madrid, the fourth proof of the Cup of the World, and Mário Costa.