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!

Thanks to everyone who provided us with music for the film. Here is a full list below of the Artists and their tracks we have used in the final edit. (Album’s in brackets if applicable)

The Frames:
• Rent Day Blues (Set List)
• Mighty Sword (For The Birds)
• Santa Maria (For The Birds)
• In The Deep Shade (For The Birds)

Black Ball Fighter:
• Fever
• Dragon’s Fire

Rigger:
• Brassneck (Ergonomics)
• Don’t Know Why (Ergonomics)

Jaded Sun:
• Crazyman (Gypsy Trip)
• Fever (Gypsy Trip)

Chris Colepaugh And The Cosmic Crew:
• Spotless Mind (in your backyard…)
• California Mountain (in your backyard…)
• Coffee Shop (in your backyard…)

Joe Echo:
• Where we wanna be

SkyPilot:
• Monument (Monument
• Lifter, on (Monument)

Vesta Varro:
• Blue Mirror Boy (Exit Here)

Mannequin Republic:
• Disco (Alpha Arcadia)

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/4217600It finally arrived – Break the Cycle’s final shoot, and we definitely finished off the shooting in style.  Andy and I met up with all the Break The Cycle riders (minus two) this morning bright and early at Moneyscalp forest, Co. Down.   It was an amazing day, one of the best we have had for a while with sunny blue skies.  We were really lucky to have zip line extraordinaire Shane McCauley to come and set up a zip line for us!  It took a little longer to set up than he had hoped, Moneyscalp forest is pretty dense and it was hard finding a spot where Andy would stay clear of nearby trees, but he managed and it turned out really good, the fastest and longest one Andy had experienced yet!

After the riders had a quick warm up , we started filming as Shane got to work with the zip line.  Was a strange but cool day having Irelands top riders all together but not competing against each other, I think everyone enjoyed the experience of riding together and checking out each others lines and riding styles!  Was very chilled out and funny when the riders started trying to overtake each other, there were a few funny falls!  After the zip we had a few interviews to finish off then called it a day.  A few of the riders took the opportunity to spend another few hours out on their bikes together while they were all in the same part of the country and had the chance.

So with shooting finished Andy is now getting stuck into the editing.  We have had requests from people in Canada, America and UK for screening evenings, and are currently checking out some film festivals also.  Subscribe to the site to be the first to hear of screening event details and World Wide dvd release dates.  I am currently trying to organise a launch party in Belfast which should be pretty big with some of the bands involved playing.  Details will be posted here when I have them, don’t miss out!