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Shaikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Sharjah, inaugurated the Arab Cycling Championship at the newly-built track, Zayed Velodrome, near Sharjah International Airport on Monday. The nine-day championship moved to the track on Sunday after the event had been held at the Sharjah corniche over the past six days. The inauguration of the championship also marked the official opening of the track.Shaikh Faisal bin Humaid Al Qasimi, president of the UAE Cycling Association, in a short address, thanked Shaikh Sultan for gracing the occasion. He said the track marked a new era in cycling in UAE. He expressed the hope that the track would help the development of the sport, not only UAE, but in the Arab world and Asia.Shaikh Sultan, speaking to the media later, said the velodrome would go a long way to raise the standard of the sport in the country. He called on the youth to make good use of the facility to improve on their standard.

Duratec company supplied for new track Zayed Velodrome the quality czech track bikes. Bikes will use by national team of UAE for scoring discipline and purchasing discipline. Duratec delivered the bikes in very small time – during one month ! It was completely about 20 special bikes with specific parameters. HAND MADE CUSTOMER’S FRAMES – it is the reason why you must have DURATEC, frames exactly according your wish.

Jan Kopka was on mtb race La Ruta Costa Rica in last days (12.th – 15.th Nov.2008) where racers go through Costa Rica from Pacific Ocean to Karibic. It is most difficult extreme mountain bike race on the World. Complete race is devided into 4 stages/days. Jan is generally on 6.th place in his cathegory Master B Men (40–49) with delay 1:31:37 on the winner Mike Charuka (CAN /Whistler/Ryders). His result is fantastic and we hope, Jan is satisfied with so nice position. Our gratulation and we wish good condition in other racers.

Basic information about La Ruta The racers mounted up 12000 meters during the whole race (4stages). This extrem race finished 23 women from Costa Rica, the USA and Canada in year 2008. Places with buffet are in distance 20–25 km. The most important reasons for demission from race are dehydration and hunger.

Stages Day 1: Jacó – Ciudad Colón: start time: 5 a.m. , distance 110 km, time to finish: 12 hours – 30 minutes at 8,8 km/h; Climate: Tropical Rain Forest, Sub-Tropical Rain Forest and Tropical Dry Forest. The opening stage is traditionally the most difficult of La Ruta, with over 4400 meters of vertical climbing (14,500 feet), plus a trek through slippery and sticky mud, and multiple river crossings. The organizers now ‚take it easy‘ on competitors by making the final climb on pavement, rather than the previous extremely steep gravel climb, but former world marathon champion Thomas Frischknecht (2005 La Ruta champion) still calls Day One the „the toughest single day of racing I have ever done“.

Day 2: Cuidad Colón – Tres Ríos; start time: 7 a.m. , distance 76 km, time to finish: 10 hours – 30 minutes at 7,2 km/h; Climate: Sub-Tropical Rain Forest, Template. Stage 2, while not the monster like stage 1, which often decimates the field, with over 20% of competitors missing the time cut, is still a hard, hard day of racing. Starting from Ciudad Colon west of San Jose, the 75.2 kilometer stage takes the riders in a long southerly loop around to the east of the capital. The opening three-kilometer dirt climb merely softens up the field, with a sketchy dirt descent taking riders to the base of the main climb, at 25 kilometers.

Day 3: Tres Ríos – Turrialba, start time: 7 a.m. , distance 66,7 km, time to finish: 10 hours – 30 minutes at 6,35 km/h; Climate: Cloud Forest and Rain Forest. Wind and rain. Drastic climatic changes. Day three is when La Ruta hit its highest point, at 3010 meters above sea level on the slopes of the Irazú volcano. The mud quotient also decreases significantly from the first two stages. The stage starts on the outskirts of San Jose and immediately begins to climb. After rolling through crowded city streets, the field stretches out quickly as the pavement tilts up. Eight kilometers into the climb, riders entered a narrow green tunnel between three meters tall, moss covered dirt embankments topped by huge ferns and trees.

Day 4: Turrialba – Bonita Beach start time: 7 a.m. , distance 125 km, time to finish: 10 hours – 30 minutes at 11,9 km/h; Climate: Sub-Tropical Rain Forest, Montano Rain Forest and Tropical Forest. The final day is the longest in distance, but possibly the easiest in terrain. Except for the opening five kilometers climb through the coffee plantation into which they descended the day before, there is only one other short climb in the 125 kilometers stage. The rest is gravel and paved descending for the first 55 kilometers, and then flat ground to the Gulf coast, where the riders turn south to head to the finish on the beach in Playa Bonita.

Fashion show of bicycle was exhibition Sport Life in the Czech Republic. There were introduced models 2009 and the fantastic hand made work fullcarbon CULT CR3 AND CAPPEL CR2. First fullcarbon frame that is possible to produce with customized geometry! Very nice racing athmosphere was on expo thanks paralympic winner Jiri Jezek from Beijing 2008. If you did not visited expo, please see our picture report …