The world premier of Irish downhill mountain bike film ‘Break the Cycle’ is to be held at Movie House Cinema, Dublin Road, Belfast, on the 6th November 2009 at 6.30pm. The red carpet will be out, and Irelands best downhill mountain bikers in attendance. This will definitely will be one of the off-season highlights of the 2009 mountain bike scene so make sure you put a note in your diary. Some of Irelands top musicians who contributed to the soundtrack will also be in attendance.

For those of you who want to continue the buzz after the screening, hip Belfast restaurant/bar AM:PM will be hosting an after party event with courtesy hot tapas and DJ.

Everyone is welcome so whether you are a veteran to the race scene, or want to see what the sport is all about, or just want to have a good night out get cracking and book your ticket now. RedBull will be there to welcome you with free product sampling at reception. There are only 320 seats available so make sure you book early on this website to avoid disappointment. Tickets are £10 for over 16 and £5 for under 16.

Click here to buy tickets now – 30/10/09 – 100 more tickets now available

Friday 6th November 2009

Redbull Reception at Movie House Cinema 18:30-19:30
Screening: 19:30pm sharp

Movie House Cinema
14-16 Dublin Road
Belfast BT2 7HN
028 90245700 ‎

AM:PM
Upper Arthur Street
Belfast
BT1 4GH

Dress Code: Black Tie / Dress to impress

***UPDATE***: I have just confirmed that Mountain Bike legend Glyn O’Brien will be bringing a bus load of the Newry gang to Belfast for the premier and they are all Tuxing it up, so this is now a Black Tie Event!  Dress code is optional of course, but it is highly recommend you go with the flow for a night that will go down in history of the Irish downhill scene.

Well, BTC has been edited, colour corrected, and the DVD cover artwork has just been finished off today! A few deals are to be made with distributers, then all of you should be able to get your hands on a copy either through this website, or at your local bike shop soon! European release is expected first, then other parts of the world to follow.

A world premier in Ireland is also in the works, with world tour packages also planned for people who want to hold their own screening events.

Other news… BTC Director Andy Yoong made an amazing return back to the race scene in the Masters category taking a Gold at the 2009 Irish National Champs and Bronze at the Masters Worlds. Glyn O’Brien has just returned home from the World Police and Firefighter games taking the Gold medal in both Dual Slalom and Downhill. International pro Ben Reid took first place in Irish Championships in Elite, with Colin Ross coming in at a close second. 2009 European Champion Meave Baxter took first place in the women’s category for the third year running. She has also just won a Silver at the Masters Worlds in France!

Keep your eyes peeled to the website over the next few weeks for news on release dates!

The Calgary Freeride Mountainbike film festival is taking place this year on 10th – 11th June.  The film festival will screen four of this years hottest releases including a pre-release version of Break the Cycle.  Other films include Barred for Life, Freedom Riders, and Clay Porter’s Tipping Point.

Half of the profits from the film festival will go towards the Right to Play charity, selected by the event organiser Andrel Reid.  Tickets are $10 at The Bike Shop and Ridleys, or $12 at the door.

Doors open at 6:30 and the movies start at 7:00 p.m.

Tons of amazing doorprizes, great cinematography, and amazing soundtracks.

For the rest of you who can’t attend, work on the full version of the film is coming on well, so hopefully you won’t have to wait too much longer to see it!  The sections put together so far look amazing and will definitely help raise the profile of the sport in Ireland.  Make sure you have subscribed on this site to be informed of release dates.

http://www.vimeo.com/3524339After months of waiting for new sponsors to come on board for his 2009 team, we finally got a session with Ben Reid on his downhill bike.  We hit the trails near Rostrevor in County Down to soak up the action.

Ben just recently built up his new 09 Iron Horse with all the latest kit that you can see in the teaser video.  It’s a pretty sweet set-up, and the bike is really quiet on the trail.

Ben was actually great to work with.  We started at about 10:30 in the morning and filmed through to 18:00.  He only had a small bottle of water and a couple of chocolate biscuits to keep him going, but he had no complaints at all!  All that pre season training must be paying off.

http://www.vimeo.com/3166859After having to put this shoot off a few times due to snow we decided we couldn’t wait any longer and met up with Irish pro Ben Reid and his rather high profile MotoX training partner Gordon Crockard for a session somewhere close to Londonderry this afternoon.

When we arrived on location we were all pretty surprised at how much snow there was still lying, it was about a foot deep and unfortunately unrideable, didn’t stop them having a go but we soon realised if we were going to get any decent footage we would have to go elsewhere and fast, before we lost the daylight!

A few phone calls were made and we headed to another location close by. The track was in much better condition, still not great but we got some pretty good shots just as the sun was going down.

Music Credits: Lily-Jean Lonely, Hell Fire Club