French mountain biker Kilian Bron captivates us with his video shot in the beautiful region of Cappadocia in Turkey, between fairy chimneys and hot air balloons.
"It's like riding on meringue. Kilian Bron has already set his mountain bike wheels on thousands of trails around the world, but the new Private Sport Shop got a taste of an unlikely spot in Turkey during the shooting of his latest video entitled "Follow the light".
Accompanied by director Pierre Henni, photographer JB Liautard and drone pilot Pierre Dupont, the 29-year-old French mountain biker takes us on a four-minute hypnotic journey through the heart of Cappadocia. A region with atypical scenery, whose sky is regularly filled with hot air balloons, carrying on board tourists who come to admire these lunar landscapes.
On the ashen earth of this semi-arid region of central Turkey, the Commencal rider plays with the fairy chimneys, the cone-shaped rock formations found in the Valley of the Monks in Göreme. In this landscape forged by volcanic eruptions and erosion, the play of light in the early morning and at nightfall is one more opportunity for Pierre Henni and Kilian Bron to deliver sublime images.
If the final result of these two weeks of filming seems clear and makes you want to put your bike's wheels down, Kilian tempers those who would like to do the same. "These canyons stretch as far as the eye can see, but the real dilemma was to find a line that was passable by bike," he explains. "From a distance, everything looks doable...but things get tricky once you get there. "But things get tricky once you get there, especially when you have to shoot at a specific time of day to hope to play with the daylight.
"We attended all the sunrises and sunsets. These slots were important for the realization of images, which allowed to bring out the reliefs and the colors, as we had imagined. No matter where we were, we experienced magical moments, full of emotion.
And for those who missed them, here are two of Kilian's latest videos, including his famous Tour de France of the most beautiful spots, shot on the cliffs of Étretat, the Dune du Pilat, in front of the Chambord castle, the Mont-Saint-Michel or the Pont du Gard.
Another rather unstable ground for mountain biking is the dusty slopes of a volcano that the mountain biker from La Clusaz has ridden in his video "Chasing Volcanoes". A 12-day trip during which Kilian and the film crew left on a sailboat and landed on the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily, some of which are home to still active volcanoes. Between lava eruptions, sea sickness and sulphur smokes...