Lapierre Gravity Collective 2025

Team Lapierre Gravity Collective has found its 3 musketeers for the 2025 season: Louis Jeandel, Lisandru Bertini and Elise Porta.

At Alberabike we are particularly happy to share this news, which Louis came to tell us a few weeks ago... Indeed, we have known Louis (and his parents) for many years, because Louis used to spend his holidays with his grandmother in Argelès-sur-Mer!

This young fourteen-year-old teenager has done a few supervised outings with Bikehorizon on real enduro courses and we had of course noticed the potential of this youngster who, having passed through the excellent TRJV and TFJV school, had combined trial and downhill riding skills and had the pedaling physique of an adult trained in XC.

All this added to an unfailing passion and an angelic smile, there was never any doubt for us that he had the potential to go far, and we are very happy that all his qualities have brought him to where he is today, that is to say among the best enduro riders in the world. This place within the Lapierre team rewards his commitment and his work, and we are sure that the quality of the new Spicy and Zesty 2025 bikes that we know well will make sparks fly in the hands of such a rider... He has already told us that in the first test without any preparation, he had improved his times on his usual tracks...

All three are ready to take up the challenge of Enduro/DH racing and to shine, well beyond the national scene, the Lapierre badge embroidered in large letters on their outfit. It is a breath of fresh air that will therefore splash the competition. With an average age of just over 21, our fiery riders - foot soldiers of their dreams - will challenge the best in their respective categories to prove to the world the immensity of their talent. And so that at the end of the season, they touch the hearts of all gravity enthusiasts!

Louis Jeandel – La Creuse d’argent
With Louis Jeandel, France can count on a legitimate pretender to the throne of Enduro mountain biking. And by ricochet, the Team Lapierre Gravity Collective too. For the 2nd of the first enduro world championships in history in 2024, we can say that the young 25-year-old from Creuse will forever be the first vice-world champion of the discipline. A half-victory that opens up enormous prospects, at the height of his riding power: on the World Cup rounds but also on all the races in which he will take part, he will now be feared by the competition. This smiling and muscular athlete is counting on his new stature to impose his law and extend his regularity seen in recent years (7th in Peyragudes, 14th in the world in 2024 in particular). With the ultimate goal of finally entering the world top 10 of the discipline. The season promises to be great!

Lisandru Bertini - A Corsican on the rise

He is already a name in world MTB Enduro. And will probably continue to engrave it in gold letters or - mountain bike metaphor obliges - in gold records on the tablets of the discipline. U21 Enduro World Champion in 2023, the fiery Corsican is coming off a (nearly) blank 2024 season due to injury, far from his usual ambitions and standards. Because Lisandru is a great Enduro prodigy: slender, alert and precise, he already steers his machine with the serenity of the champion and the ardor of his youth. Eager to take his revenge this year, he will be keen to win again, after 2023, his 3 U21 victories, his consecration among the hopefuls and his honorary title of "Corsican sportsman" of the year.

Elise Porta – A Provençal who wastes no time

Alert, prodigy. If you are in the Provence mountains and see a young mountain biker - wrapped in red pants - furiously hurtling down slopes that would scare the best trail runners, it is probably Elise Porta. Because the future of women's gravity lies under her wheels, which she places with rare finesse: at only 18 years old, Elise Porta is the reigning French Enduro Junior champion and French DH vice-champion, no less. Above all, she already commands a certain respect among the elites with choice places: 8th in the French DH Elite championship and several top 15s in French Cup rounds. 2025 is proving to be as radiant as the Aix-en-Provence sun!

2024 was a difficult season for me, to forget. That's the game, you can't always be at the top. Everything will be different in 2025, I can't wait to get going!
Lisandru Bertini

Main dates of the MTB Enduro World Cup

• May 10/11 : WC EDR Finale Ligure, Italy
• May 16/18 : WC EDR Belsko Biala, Pologne
• May 31/June 1st : WC EDR Loudenvielle, France  
• June 07/08 : WC EDR Leogang, Austria
• June 28/29 : WC EDR Val di Sole, Italy
• July 04/06 : WC EDR La Thuile, Italy
• August 26/27 : WC EDR Haute Savoie, France 
• September 05/07 : Worlds Champs UCI – Aletsch, Valais, Swiss
• October 23-26 : Enduro French Championship