Welcome to Ben Bikes - So who am I?
Cappadocia - along some epic singletrack on a spectacular ride I've been biking longer than I can remember and these days it has developed from a hobby into a passion, a job and hopefully a career, but it's not always been like that... While I was growing up we were not well off, every bike I had during my earlier years was built from what we recovered from the local tip. (To this day, I've not owned a 'new' bike) I can remember spending hours outside with my dad while he built bikes for friends and he was constantly fixing or tinkering with own bikes. In those days I wasn't so hot on the maintenance side of things, it wasn't as interesting as actually riding the bike! Fortunately things have changed and all my bikes are built by myself, although only my road bike is a genuine scrapyard bitser. While I was 13 or 14 we joined a local MTB club called the Chiltern First 15, or C1XV - I was by far the youngest and most fearless but I loved being out r...