The 2015 season was undoubtedly the breakthrough year for Frenchman Loïc Bruni on the downhill circuit. After three years riding as a senior, ‘Brownie’ fulfilled his indubitable talent by coming away as the World Champion on an incredible day in Vallnord in September.
Add four second-placed finishes over the course of the World Cup season and a second-place overall on the World Cup than that’s a pretty good return.
We sent our man Rob Warner down to Loïc’s hometown of Cagnes-Sur-Mer in the south of France to hear about the World Champion’s hopes for the 2016 World Cup and reflect on that win in Vallnord.
Combine Josh Bryceland, Phil Atwill, Brendan Fairclough and a bunch of other riders. Add in some wintery British slopes and you’ve got yourself a slice of lunacy, a slice of ‘what the hell just happened’, and A Slice of British Pie.
This 25 minute long nutter fest, brought to you Dirt, celebrates good times on bikes with some of the world’s biggest and most loved mountain bikers. None of that slo-mo, none of that dubstep and nobody is putting their goggles on in this film. Brought to you from the genius mind of Tom Caldwell, prepare to experience an old school insight into the epitome of winter riding in our muddy little corner of the world.
The film unravels as a roadtrip – from Fort William to Surrey, and from Wales to County Durham. We’ve focussed on the loosest riders – the guys you think of when loss of traction is on the mind.
In this episode of Destination Trail, we follow Hannah Barnes and Miranda Miller as the pair ride the scorched wilderness of Stellenbosch, South Africa. A vast network of trails have existed here since the ’90s, but after a massive fire scorched much of the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve in 2015, fresh funding has paved the way for even more singletrack. And today, this lemonade-out-of-lemons approach has rejuvenated existing trails and laid the groundwork for new ones, making the area a true destination for any mountain biker with a love for dusty red earth.