Loic Bruni Takes the French Junior Downhill Title!

Team Lapierre International took young Loic Bruni under their wing for 2011 and have recently seen him well and truly come into form.

A 14th place at the UCI Mountainbike World Cup at Windham is surely the shape of things to come and his result at the French National Downhill Champs in Meribel is another solid result.

Loic was the fastest Junior and 5th fastest time of the day. The Meribel track is, by all accounts, difficult enough in the dry, but mother nature conspired against the riders and World War One conditions were produced for race runs.

In the XC Champtionships, Alexis Vuillermoz, still recovering from a pre-season injury finished 5th while Lapierre's new R&D rider, Pierre-Geoffrey Plantet came in right behind him in 6th.