What Tradies Want — August-September 2017

10 WHAT TRADIES WANT.

F

ruity French downhill racer Loïc

Bruni had a bit of a brainstorm

and decided to bolt down a nasty-

bastard downhill in the middle of the

night. The gold medallist at the 2015 UCI

Mountain Bike World Championships

decided not to go crazy, though. He waited

until it was a full moon and had a mate fly

a drone with a couple of LED lights in front

of him. So he could see an’ that.

Starting at 3.00am – probably so he’d

be home in time for a brekky of snails or

some other Gallic delight – over the course

of three nights, the 23-year-old cut sick

on the slopes while another camera drone

filmed from behind. Visibility was about 15

metres, but Monsieur Loïc didn’t let that

bother him.

“It was a leettle beet dan-jher-oos

sometimes,” he gargled in his charming

Frenchie accent. “Eet ees really ’ard

nowadays to innovate when you do

videos.”

The video and images are amazing, no

doubt about that, and Bruni did the scary

downhill bizzo, no worries.

Sack-ray bluey!

10 WHAT TRADIES WANT.

Image: Hadrien Picard/Red Bull Content Pool

Flat-stick downhill under a drone light and a full moon? No wukkas.

Lightin’ up

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