LAPIERRE NEWS

Last week the New Zealand National Championship for gravity mountainbiking took place in the wonderful location of Long Gulley, near Wellington. Wyn Masters – the new rider of team Kenda-Playbiker...

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Urge Nepal is a race, but most of all an adventure for charity…The auction aimed at helping Nepalese children is now on the Urge Nepal website and on Ebay...

Kiwi rider Wyn Masters signs for team Kenda-Playbiker, joining the gravity icon Nathan Rankin and  2009 worlds jr silver medal Shaun O’Connor...

The FDJ riders can be proud of their start to the new season: they won 3 out of the 5 stages of the Mediterrannean Tour!

Last week, Sam (Blenkinsop) and Sam (Flockhart), our two new riders from Team Lapierre International DH, visited us in our factory in Dijon....

Teenage DH prodigy, Manon Carpenter will ride a Lapierre DH 920 for the 2010 season, supplied by Hotlines Europe Ltd on a supported rider program...

Lapierre has been an active member of the international race circuit for many years now. For 2010 the French company has decided to take their sponsoring activities to the next level in order to reflect their export ambitions by creating a new “Team Lapierre International”, composed of the world’s best DH, enduro and XC riders...

Nicolas Vouilloz from Team Lapierre will not be able to participate in the Megavalanche at Reunion Island November 28-29 as planned.  The rider from Team Lapierre injured his knee during a training session this week....

A race in which the two contenders are a pro cyclist and a motorcyclist seems crazy, doesn’t it? Well not that much! Hutchinson decided to create an urban race: The “Across the Town” challenge will take place on September, 24th, in Paris’ streets...

Anthony Roux is much more than the French revelation of the year. Nicknamed “The Machine” by his team mates, he’s proven he’s able to get the job done, winning yesterday for the first time a stage of the Spanish Vuelta!

Jakub Riha, a seventeen year-old fourcross rider from Pisek, Czech Republic who rides a Lapierre Airzone, experienced a fairylike dream in the UCI Fourcross World Championship 2009 in Australia, when he stood on the bronze podium!

It all started with a bronze medal after the relay race. Then Alexis Vuillermoz (Team Lapierre International XC) and Danny Hart (Team Lapierre powered by Saab Salomon ) finished 2nd and 3rd of their respective races. And finally, Cédric and Cécile , who finished respectively 6th and 7th, have shown they were in great form too!

Our Lapierre Froggy 318 bike was tested by German website Bike TV. If you would like to see the video...

Last week end 13-14 June the MTB Downhill European Championship took place in the infamous track of Kranjska Gora, in Slovenja. In Master class the challenge was very tough...

La Bresse, yesterday...2nd round of the UCI World Cup… it is probably one of the best MTB events of the year, and certainly the best in France...

Just like last year, the first race of the Saab Salomon Avalanche Trophy took place last weekend in Kielder (Scotland)...

Alexis Vuillermoz and Danny Hart are both young (they’re respectively 20 and 17 years old) and talented…as shown by their awesome results last weekend during the 1st round of the World Cup, in South Africa.

The FDJ team has enjoyed a string of victories lately. Only 5 days after Antony Geslin won the Flèche Brabançonne, Jérôme Coppel won the Route Adélie in Brittany - his 1st victory as a professional rider...