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Break The Cycle - Irish DH DVD release

Sharon Kennedy and Andy Yoong from Northern Ireland Production Company Honcho Designs, have teamed up with 10 of the best Irish Downhill riders including Irish Downhill Champion Colin Ross, Masters World Silver medallist Meave Baxter, and Irish pro Ben Reid to bring you a Downhill film with a difference.

With most downhill Films focusing on racing, Break the Cycle instead aims to give you an insight into the lives of these top riders, while showing off some of the amazing Irish Landscapes.

Most of the best downhill riders lives revolve around their bikes, their friends, their family, even their jobs. By shooting them at the places they ride, train, work and live, it will look into how these riders have used their bikes to break the cycle of everyday life.

Well, this is what the press release says. However, a few salient facts that long time Stopadoodledoo readers* will be able to verify:

• "Amazing Irish Landscapes"? Let me tell you, I've been to Temple Bar in Dublin and I really wasn't impressed. If I wanted to see a bunch of drunk English women with L plates on, throwing up on the pavement I'd go to Estonia, thanks very much


• Jobs? Friends? Family? The best season we ever had was when we spunked a hundred quid on Special Brew every weekend, and at the end of that we placed third in Masters and nobody would talk to us ever again, on account of throwing mud in the uplift truck at the Dragons / throwing up in the back of some bloke's car / getting in a fight with a tent in a field in Thetford. Simply put, we don't agree with the training philosophy these Irish people espouse. But who are we to judge?


• Errrr...


• ... uh ...


• Oh yes, Maeve may be a lot faster than any of us, but I reckon I'm taller. And I'm on the other side of the planet, so if anyone does take umbrage, it's going to be a 12 hour flight before they can even contemplate punching me in the gob

Oh yes, and one last thing:

Come on guys, if you can't even get the camera on the left hand side in focus, what do you think you're doing? In this day and age we DEMAND SATISFACTION, and that means high quality footage of Canon video cameras, not some bloke wearing a motorbike helmet. (If you have footage of somebody riding down steps, we might change our mind)


The site, which is updated regularly, is fully loaded with rider profiles and behind the scenes clips and photos. Check it out and subscribe online for updates at www.breakthecyclefilm.com

* Kent, a bloke in Scotland and that man who got angry about our Intense M6 review

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