Meet Ben Stock, 2009 Backbone Team Mechanic

Meet Ben Stock. Ben is a professional bike mechanic. He works on everything from SRAM RED to your crack-head neighbor's stolen TEAM MURRAY from 1986. He is a hell of a nice guy, and is the Service Manager at the New Albany TSC store. You will get to meet Ben Stock if you attend Interbike with Roger, Vanessa, Bert, Ming, and I in a couple of weeks. Why is he coming to Interbike? Ben Stock is your new team mechanic for 2009, THAT'S WHY! Ben will be traveling to the NMBS races and Sea Otter (assuming there will be NMBS races, if not I'll ship to Cali full time). It will be like having James, only without the agony! Sorry man, that was just a cheap shot, my bad! Ben can fix a broken heart, and even the break of day..so with him at events, Roger can actually almost have a beer, and almost get some sleep! Ben will now subjected to the same blog abuse that the rest of you are, so let's leather him up early. Start the nasty comments now, and we'll break him in!


Thanks to Ben for coming to the show to meet the sponsors and riders. He will be there Wednesday through Friday, so bring your beer goggles!








Ben, Amanda, Lyd and Joe at the Thirsty Ear.












Ben getting all chummy with Travis Brown. Travis bought the beer, but I think Ben probably put out for it.