Cycling from Lisbon

HI all
We are walking the Portuguese Camino from Lisbon starting in early August and, due to injury, one of our party is considering cycling rather than walking. Still very much in the "idea" stage but thought I would ask some questions here to help make our mind up....

I have googled and found a couple of places where we might be able to hire bikes (including bikeiberia.com) and have sent emails to them but does anybody here have any recommendations in Lisbon where we might hire a bike? Probably electric but not necessarily.

Are there any obvious pitfalls that we should be aware of ie the terrain may be too rough, the roads too dangerous etc? We walked the CF in 2019 and there were parts of that I would have hated to have had to cycle!

The thought has occurred to me that it might be easier or cheaper to buy a bike instead of hiring... Is there a place in Santiago that buys bikes?

As always, thank you to each and every one who reads and/or replies

Davybhoy

Corned Beef said:

Bike Iberia - in Lisbon. Used them twice - an eBike (Giant) and non-E (?). Service from Maria excellent both times. Since you'll be in Lisbon you can see the bike before you hire it. I wasn't able to do that but wasn't disappointed with the hires.

I've also purchased bikes from Decathlon rather than hire which again you can do in Lisbon. The advantage of using Decathlon is they have stores with in-house service sections all the way up if you get a problem. This proved useful when I was on the Via Francigena.

As regards selling the bike, don't know of any place that might do it in Santiago as the supply likely exceeds demand. You can donate it.

Your question about difficult sections is probably too broad to be answered except to say not had a problem in Spain or Portugal IF you do a bit of training beforehand to know your cycling limits. It's all down to being able to control the bike - same as a car, or a horse etc,

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Thanks for that. Decathlon sounds like a great alternative - I will check it out. It is great too to have bike Iberia reinforced as a positive recommendation