Portugal Cycling MTB Bike Centre - Portugal, Greece & Mediterranean

The Portugal sports centre on Cabedelo beach at the luxury FeelViana Sports Hotel offers onsite services for bike rental, MTB, road , city or ebikes with year round guided tours for groups, semi private or private packages. Rent the latest equipment, Garmin cameras, GPS and kids chariots or use the specialist equipment services including the fully equipped bike repair shop on site.
 

Open  All year.


Location
The centre is located just outside of the historic town of Viana do Castelo, just under an hour from Porto airport and located within the 4* FeelViana Sports Hotel. It a short walk and ferry ride to Viana do Castello in the summer months, or you can cycle in around 15 minutes. Cabedello beach is a short 300m walk along the boardwalk from the centre. It opens out on a crescent shaped, sandy beach with break water at the northern end, fringed by sand dunes and pine forest. This is a stunning location to enjoy biking, surfing, yoga and stand up paddleaboarding (SUP) year round with windsurfing and kitesurfing in the windier summer months.

Facilities
The centre is run by experienced, professional staff with relevent qualifications for teaching. There is a snack bar on the beach from May to September in front of the hotel open during the day. From October to April, meals and refreshments are available at the Hotel. The Center support area, at the other end of the building to the rental and instruction base, has fully equipped shower rooms, with 48 ventilated lockers with padlocks to store  your own equipment and dry suits, boards and other equipment, at an additional charge. (This is required to be booked in advance to guarantee availability.) A short walk from the centre is the kids club with adjacent pump track - ideal for practising on skateboards or bike. The Kid's club is required to be booked in advance and there is a charge by the hour.

Sports and Activities
The centre offers rental and instruction for MTB and road cycling at the specialist bike centre plus surfing, stand up paddle boarding (SUP), windsurfing and kitesurfing. Other activities available also include hiking, trail running, trekking and sailing. Private excursions and tours for boating, sailing and SUP along the river and to nearby surf spots are available locally.

Kit Range

MTB / Bike equipment 60 new high-quality Scott equipment, Garmin GPS and onsite repair shop. Rental equipment available includes: Mountain Bikes - Spark, Big Jon, Scale, Contessa; Road bikes - CR110; E-bikes: E-Scale Plus and E-Contessa Scale 730; City Bikes -Sub Comfort 20 Unisex and Kids Mountain Bikes -Scaler JR 20, 24, 26 Plus.

Sailing from Cabedelo beach or River Lima just behind the hotel: Seascape 18 single handed sailing boat, Optimists and Class 420 yachts. The centre can offer sailing trips with local experience skipper.

Windsurf equipment from JP and NeilPryde and Junior equipment available.

Kitesurf range of the latest equipment from Cabrinha.

Surf Equipment  and Stand Up Paddle Barding (SUP) Equpment.

Rental


MTB Bike Rental

The centre offers the latest Scott bike rental in the following categories:

MTB/City Bikes (Scale, Contessa Scale, Sub Comfort); Cross/Trail (Spark, E Scale Plus E Contessa Scale); Road (CR1 + Big Jon): Junior/Trailer (Scale 26:24:20).

The center also offer detailed information on self guided or guided tours with over 400km of tracks through mountains, river, roads, shore and beach with 21 routes from 22.5km to 164km for different ability levels. Garmin GPS available to hire or you can join guided tours. There is an integrated cycle service and repair shop available for those with their own equipment for washing, assembling, adjusting and technical support.