http://www.vimeo.com/2111159John Lawlor kindly threw together some clips of Ben riding St Annes dirt jumps in Dublin. Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.vimeo.com/2099835Ben sums up his season and tells us how it went.

http://www.vimeo.com/2030633On Tuesday 21st Oct we had just heard the boil of the kettle in the Baltic household as Honcho and Sharon turned up at the door to do some shooting around the house and hopefully up the road at the local training grounds. Read the rest of this entry »

This day had been talked about for a few weeks, and very quickly it was time to meet up with Lawlor and help him lose hiis Zip Line virginity.

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After leaving Keswick at lunch time on friday, the journey should have been a simple cruise up the road for an hour or so to the town of peebles, but in true Ben Reid style, things just could not go to plan. Read the rest of this entry »

After the party in Schladming, like most people we spent the majority of Sunday morning trying to catch up on the sleep that was lost throughout the night. Read the rest of this entry »

Schladming – Coordinates 47°23’39”N 13°41’21”E. This was to be the destination for the final round of the UCI mountain bike world cup 2008. After a busy season that saw the thunder truck clock up a total of 13’447 miles throughout the various countries in Europe, we were more than happy to have arrived in the small Austrian town on Monday evening. Read the rest of this entry »

After leaving sunny Ireland on Tuesday 2nd, we were headed for Germany to visit Eurobike for the day. After spending a day there clocking up a serious stitch from excess walking, we shot off to meet up with Victor and Rowan who were in Italy for some more photos for the European Bike park article that will be in Dirt mag hopefully very soon. Read the rest of this entry »

Ben has just arrived back from 2 weeks in whistler Canada after attending the Crankworx festival, rather than write a long boring story, I’m going to ask him a few questions instead and have a laugh at his vocabulary. 

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Preston manning once said – “An optimist in Canada is someone who thinks things could be worse!” Read the rest of this entry »