Some of you may remember Honcho Designs first video release back in 2001 ‘Heavy metal’. Heavy Meatal II was in development in 2002 but never happened… until now! Video clips have been pulled from the archive and uploaded to the Break the Cycle YouTube channel. They feature riding from Irish riders back in 2002 at Bromont and Whistler. There is also coverage of the Canadian downhill and 4x would cup rounds from 2002.

Bromont Trails

Way back in 2002 John Lawlor, Dale McMullen, Andy Smith, Richard Smith and myself were over in canada to race a couple of rounds of the downhill mountain bike world cup.  We were lucky enough to be able to stop off at a couple of amazing riding spots between races, one of which was Bromont.  For those of you who don’t know, Bromont ihas an amazing network of trails.  I havn’t been there in a while but I have heard that they have developed the area for bikes much more since we were over in 2002.

Grouse Mountain World Cup

Grouse Mountain was one of the world cup rounds we raced at when we were over there.  The track at Grouse Mountain is located in Vancouver on the west coast of Canada.  It was a strange track because it finished half way up the mountain.  For the race runs the weather turned really bad really quickly.  As you can see in the video visibility was not the best!

Whistler

Whistler, what can i say… an amazing place to ride.  I had never seen another place more geared towards mountain bikers in my life.  Back then in 2002 there were a load of Irish riders out there.  Check out the video of everyone doing a train down A-Line.  I remember Andy and Richard Smith loving the wall ride at the bottom section of the track.  I think things are a bit crazier there now.

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Whats Next? The trailer for break the cycle is almost finished and will be on here soon!

MTBMovies.com have entered a ‘Break the Cycle’ test video of current Irish downhill champion Colin Ross at Cave Hill, Belfast, into their monthly video contest.  Show your support by voting here.

http://www.vimeo.com/1657999I’m still doing some testing with the camera set-up that I will use so I hooked up with Colin Ross to see how footage would turn out in low light.  The weather could not have been worse.  We started off at 8.30am with clear skies but the rain came in quickly.

As you can see from the video the footage is on the edge of being useable.  It was then that I realised that I have lots of work ahead over the next few months to try to get the time shoot all the riders in good condidtions.

Most of the best downhill riders lives revolve around their bikes – their friends, their family, even their jobs.  Break the cycle aims to get an insight into the lives of those top Irish mountain bike riders, to show their individuality.  Shooting them at the places they ride, train, work and live while showing off the amazing landscapes on this Island.  It will look into how these riders have used their bikes to ‘break the cycle’ of everyday life.

Expect to see updates to this site with behind the scenes photographs, and rider profiles.