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Team W-racing.se Episode 2 2013

Team W-racing.se Episode 2 2013 a Mountain Biking video by lillwallner

The team spent a week in beautiful San Remo training and testing.
The episode is not that long because unfortunately Niklas camera got stolen so this may be our last edit of the season if not somebody can help us out.
Hope you all enjoy the short edit.

Cheers//
Wallner Brothers

First race of the season

Hi everyone!

We have just checked into the hotell here in Malaga and thought we might update everyone on how the first race of the season went.

After a week of hell, with 3 bikes, camera bag, gps etc stolen we didn´t really feel like racing, we just wanted to go back home to Sweden again.

But then the weekend came and our minds changed a bit and both me and Robin were really excited to get the season started.

The track in Sant Andreu is very one line and pretty short so we knew that the times was going to be super close.

We raced in Sant Andreu in 2011 aswell and the track was prettymuch the same except that they had put in a big finish-jump and two berms wich made the finish-area a bit more spectacular.

Practice went well and conditions were super dry and dusty wich isn´t our favourite conditions but we are getting better and better at it.

I was first up in the finals and felt like My run was alright.

I made a small misstake at the top and was a bit to cautious in some sections, you always find things that you should have done better but overall it was a solid run for me just not 110% all the way.

Next up was Robin who was 6^th after qualifying something he was not happy with.

Even if we only had a week on the bikes before the race Robin had his mind set on winning the race.

His thoughts:

-”My run felt good jand relaxed just not as on the edge as i would have needed to be to win but the track was short and not so technical so i am real happy that i have improved a bit on these kind of tracks compared to what i have done in the past.”

-”I am super happy with the result, i for sure wanted a win but at the same time i didn´t expect to be ready to race yet so i have a good vibe heading back to training”

Now we are going to spend another 3 weeks down in Malaga getting some training done and Robin is having a camp with the Swedish MTB-gymnasium between the 17^th and 30^th.

Since the camera is gone we might bring out an I-phone video during our time here...

Hopefully someone will find Robins dh-bike as it looks like inscurance won´t cover it due to the fact that it was stolen from the car. Might need to start a fund-raiser to get him a new one.

Have a great week

// Wallner brothers

Pre-season fun from Åre!

Team W-Racing Winter Biking in Åre from Fotograf Simon Sjörén on Vimeo.

we need everybodys help!!

We need everybodys help right now, Robin Wallner race bike got stolen today in Sant sant andreu de la barca! 
it´s a blue da bomb tsar bomb. 
Robin needs the bike back so he can race this weekend in Barcelona !!

So we have been on the road for 2 weeks now, the van is still pimp and the bikes are getting pretty dialled so i´m looking forward to start of the race-season this weekend in a hopefully sunny Barcelona.

When we arrived in San romolo we got a bit of snow over night and i was just thinking ”this is not happening” but the tracks cleared and dried out pretty quickly so we could ride full on from sunday.

We managed to get a couple of photos done early on so we could get that out of the way and try to just ride and train every day.

I felt quite at home on the bike from the first day. Even though it might look like the exact same frame i rode in 2011 it´s really not quite the same. We made a lot of changes to it during that first year so the bike feels a bit different. The main difference is the linkage wich is way more progressive then before wich i like. I was able to go down in spring rates in the back and i felt like i could move the bike around way easier then before so thumbs up.

Think Marcus & Niklas also adapted pretty quickly to the new bikes even though we all felt like shit after the two first days riding the rough and fast track in S. Romolo.

We got in a bit of training aside of riding downhill aswell. Some sprints, bit of XC and some running mixed with a bit of core-strength so by the end of the week i started to feel it.

I really like to go there and suffer a bit for a week to get the season started, even if it might be nice to start of somewhere with a bit easier and smoother tracks to get used to the bike and riding again i do believe it´s better to just go there and get a bit of a wake-up call.

It´s rough, fast and the tracks have a bit more of a world cup characteristic feel to it then anywhere else you can ride in the off-season so naturally coming from Swedish winter i felt pretty f-cked after day one.

Unfortunatly on the last day Marcus had a big crash and we had to visit the hospital in San remo to get his hand x-rayed. Turned out that he had broken the radius-bone so instead of going with us to Barcelona he jumped on a flight home from Nice on sunday.

After meeting with the doctors back home he will have a cast for 4 weeks and then start rehab so lucky enough the season-starts late this year so he should be ready on time.

Me & Niklas headed to Barcelona where we will ride a bit during the wek and planning to get together with another swedish-crew to hit up some dirt-jumps tomorrow.

Tune in for some video laters!

//Robin

Time to pack up after a packed week in the village. We have been skiing, both on the hill and on the flat, riding downhill, having our own rampage in the park and got a bit of filming & photos done.

It´s become a bit of a annual get-together now to gather up the boys for a bit of pre-season fun and at the same time use it as a deadline to get the bikes & equipment for the season.

This time around was no exception, on monday we drove to arlanda to pick up 15 boxes of frames & spares that had been expressed from Taiwan over the weekend. 




Then put the pedal down and headed to Åre, where we spent tuesday in Klas garage putting bikes together.

On wednesday we finally got going on wheels and got to try out the bikes for a few runs aswell as getting in a couple of turns on the skis.

Check out the photos of it below:

Later in the week it was time to hit the snowpark and get some airtime on the big-jumps!

It´s an amazing feeling to go and ride the ski-jumps on the bikes with big transitions and landings but it´s also very hard to judge speed when everything is snow & white and you never know how well the tires will roll in the snow.

Robin decided that it seemed like a good idea to try the biggest jump he could find in the park and hit it on the bike. The picture speaks for itself but lets just say that even if the kids in the park hit it on the skis, on a bike it´s BOSS!

Next week we head out for a 6 week long trip in Europe to do some proper riding and training and work on the tan for the season so we hope you tune in for some photos & videos in the upcoming weeks!

Video from the week should be out by next weekend so be sure to check in for that aswell!