On Friday 29th December at 12.44am, Annie gave birth to baby Ned - another addition to the Ripe Family.
Ned Richard Penny weighed in at a healthy 8lb 3oz.

Rik and Ned seconds after he was born

Rik and his boys, Max, Ned and Sam

Ned!

Ripe are official print sponsors for Bradley Smith, the 16 year 125cc Moto-GP rider from Oxford. Brad popped into see us as we were printing some ‘Thank You’ cards to send to all his personal sponsors and supporters.

Rik and Bradley

Quite a few of us at ripe are into our bikes, Rik’s got his Ducati, Clive’s got his Zoomer Scooter (is that classed as a bike?) and I’m into my off road bikes. I also run a motocross related website part-time and have sponsored a number of amateur riders over the last four years two of which are now professional. Bradley Smith is one of those riders and after working his way to the top of the youth motocross championships he had an unfortunate incident in early 2004 which put him out of action for the season.

Determined to keep riding, Bradley switched to road bikes and came 4th in the MRO Superteen Championship despite missing several of the rounds due to his motocross commitments. After attracting a huge amount of media attention as the ‘motocrosser turned road racer’ and was given the chance to ride in the MotoGP Academy in Spain for a year at the age of 14.

Bradley finnished 2nd in the CEV Spanish 125cc Championship and 10th in the British 125cc Championship despite missing many rounds due to MotoGP Academy commitments, In 2006, Bradley the hottest young prospect in road racing was signed up by the prestigious Repsol Honda Team to compete in the 125cc Class of the MotoGP and has scored top 10 points.

by George

From Printweek “Fine paper manufacturer Fedrigoni’s UK operation has achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) accreditation.
The award gives full chain-of-custody certification to a range of Fedrigoni products.
These include the recycled, triple-blade coated Symbol Freelife, the extra-smooth digital paper Splendorgel, and Arcolaser HP, the firm’s wove offset grade.
Freelife, the grade which mixes virgin fibre and recycled paper and launched two months ago, is also included in the certification.”

Once your job has been completed and despatched we will be sending you an email with a consignment link on it which, once clicked, will bring up all the despatch information so you can track your delivery online.
Hope you like this new service and any feedback would be much appreciated.

Screen grab of the new tracking page

Ripe Sweden won the Bath Design World Cup on Sunday - well, technically, we won the ‘Least Number of Points’ Award but, to us, that qualifies as a win. We also won the ‘Best Dressed Team’ Award which meant more to us than winning the tournament.
Our team of nine started very poorly by losing the first three games and then, with John (from Orbit Digital) being sick in the bushes and having to retire for the day, we were down to 8. In the next game, Adam (from Ignition) damaged his knee which put him out for the rest of the tournament.
We played the six remaining games with no subsitutes but actually won one of them and drew two.
Click here for pictures of the day.
We would all like to thank Peter at Radio for organising yet another fantastic day.