Lacondeguy and Pardal Smash the Lousã Bike Park
Located in central Portugal, Lousã Bike Park features over 25 downhill and all-mountain trails including no fewer than three Portuguese national-level DH tracks. Who better to show us around then than Portugal’s top DH rider, Francisco Pardal? Oh, and we sent Andreu Lacondeguy along for the ride too.
The tracks in Lousã were wild and rough! The week I was there was really hot and the dirt was dry so it made everything even more wild and hard to follow! But the tracks were amazing, steep, fast, tech… They had everything
I can say that I have been a fan of Andreu for some time now. He has his very own style of riding, really fast and loose. His flow and style on the jumps is unbelievable.
I always had this idea of inviting a Red Bull rider to come film with me in my tracks and some other ones in Lousã, Portugal. Fortunately, Andreu accepted the invitation, which was incredible. I knew right away that the video we were going to make would be wild, fast and loose, with myself being a downhill rider and himself a freeride one. A few days later I was told Rupert Walker was going to be filming the project and he is one of the most bad-ass filmmakers there is in downhill and freeride.
Lousã and Louzanpark are like my second home. I have a lot of friends there and it’s where I started doing downhill back in 2005. We try and up the level of Louzanpark every year! Plenty of athletes from abroad enjoy our tracks and way of living.
