robinwallner

Fort william…well might have been one of the tougher races for a while for me.

I had some wounds in my hands that was just healing up before going there but i then managed to have a big crash in my second training run on friday.

I did a small gap over some stumps but didn't notice a girl turning into the track just after the jump. Had to try & switch line but caught my pedal on a stump & got sent over the bars pretty hard!

I bent my stem, fork; bars & trashed a saddle but i also messed up my hands pretty bad.

Was off to the sickbay for a bit for me to get the hands looked at but i was able to ride the afternoon practice anyway.

Felt alright during practice but it was just hard for me to try to push being afraid of crashing again with my body being fu- ed…and i might not have been in the best mindset:

Anyway my racerun started out good but i did some pretty stupid mistakes in the middle-section that i couldn't afford so i kinda knew coming into to the finnish that i wasn`t going to be "up there"…

Finnished 35th so it wasn`t really that bad. Just once again not what i`m after but i hope to be back fresh for Leogang and put in a decent result there.

Next up i will be riding the Wheels of speed in Willingen this weekend. Hope hands  are healing fast!

R.

Anyway. Today i´m heading for Scottland and the almighty Fort-bill.

I´m flying out (hopefully) at 5 o clock so i´ve got all day in a sunny stockholm.

Hopefully i can make something happen this weekend!

//R

Well since i got stuck back home for the weekend i decided to go & race the 4X national-champs in vansbro.

Got my bike built up last week so i was looking forward to go & try it out!

I went there mostly for fun but i just got pissed of on how things were from start.

-National champs-first actual 4x race in sweden. Strange timing to crown who is the best rider of 2010...?

-New rules for the first race of the year, would have been smart to start with a national round first to try thing out maybe...?

-The course-fun to ride also with a bmx-bike. Biggest jump is maybe 4metres and it has a total of 4 corners wide enough for two people at a maximum. I knew the course before i went there but i still get pissed of when things are going the WRONG direction...

I don´t have much to say about my race. I sucked. Mostly because i didn´t quite enjoy it.

In sweden we don´t (for some reason) use the UCI-format of 4x. We first do a time-qualifyer, then bmx qualifying (3heats with the same guys) & then finals.

Stupid thing now was that they came up with a new system for this race wich was bmx-qualifying 3 riders in each heat wich then went straight to A-B & C-finals. So they have created a system of their own...

I didn´t understand that there would not be any semi-finals or anything. Just 3 heats and the best rider went to final.

So i was kind of playing it safe in my heats with a 2^nd a 1^st and a 2^nd. When i got down on the last one my dad asked why i didn´t try to pass for the win. I was like “i didn´t need to so i didn´t bother”.

Well i needed to. Then i got explained that i would now be riding Small final.

How wank is that?

Well i felt like not even bother to ride it, but i did and got 5^th.  Not to stoked about that.

I think there are some serious issues in Swedish 4x-racing right now and i hope they can get it sorted out. I know the organisers are trying so i´m sure they will get it to work well.

After the race i went for a small session at some jumps on the way home with Martin, Niklas & John wich was pretty fun so it made up for the day.

PreShow Tibro 2010 from Racelife.se on Vimeo.

Well it´s been a week since i actually wrote something…again…

Last weekend i rode the first swedish cup in a place called Vallåsen out in thewoods a long way down south in sweden.

Didn´t have any expectations on the track since we all kind of knew that it would be short we figured it could be pretty shiet.

Anyway i think everyone was real impressed with the track and that it had pretty much a section of everything. Rock-gardens, of-cambers, woodsections with some roots to slip & slide on and a short sprint to the finnish.

Only shame was that it was only 1.35 long so it was obvious it was going to be a tight race.

My weekend kinda went bad from start when i decided to try & gap the 2^nd rock-section and failed.

I smashed my face in the ground pretty hard, destroyed my helmet & put my front teeth through my upper-lip.

After that i sat around at the car for a while but decided that i could still ride since i wasn´t bleeding and felt pretty clear inmy head.

Did qualifying mellow just to get down and not crash. Was in 2^nd with my brother in first. Pretty sick.

Only shitty thing was that old-man Herman in veterans beat us both and had the best time in qualifying.

Anyway i felt a lot better on sunday just a bit sore in my neck & back.

My racerun went pretty smooth only did one misstake in the first woods where i “stalled it” in one of the corners but apart from that it was allright.

Got the win by a bit over a second wich was a lot on a short course like that.

Kim Petersson was 2^nd Aleander Kangas 3^rd Dennis Dertell 4^th & Niklas Wallner 5^th

Sunn bikes in 1,2, 3!

Think Niklas got pretty nervous being the first time he was the last rider to come down the hill...toughen the fuck up man!

Been taking it a bit easy for a few days done 2 xc-rides and just trying to get everything sorted

out to leave for a tour de france!

Washed my moto-bike yesterday and wanted to go & ride it today but i think i will leave it untill i get back home.

This weekend i´m racing the first french cup, weekend after is Fort william, then doing wheels of speed in Willingen (hopefully bring home some cash!) then Leogang & back to Sweden. And oh there is a swedish cup first weekend back home...One-life...

//R

It´s over first worldcup is done & it didn´t go bad nor very good just an average result.

However i´m pretty happy to get a couple of good points & start of the season in a better place then i did last year.

It was a tough race with super-demanding conditions at the fastest track on the circuit and also the first race of the season after a long winter so i´m happy with the result even though i have bigger plans.

My run was a mix of some smooth riding & some "all over the place"-riding with shitty misstakes that cost a lot of time. But my biggest problem was that i hit a tree in training this morning & probobly fractured or broke a finger. It´s fare to say i struggled to hold on.

Video will be out tomorrow!

Next up i was planning on racing the first swedish cup (if my finger is ok) next wc-round is Fort William. Look forward to that and i think i can do pretty well there...

//R

Qualifying-done.

It has been pissing down real hard all day long so i kinda knew the qualifying was going to be rough as hell and staying on the bike was real important to me since i was outside the top 20 from last year and HAD to make the top 80.

Practice in the morning went good and a lot of places had better traction in the rain.

Had lunch back at the apartment, mechanic-Ben fixed my bike up so it looked like brand new, put a new kit on and went of to the start.

Felt pretty nervous before my run since the conditions were obviously pretty sketchy and it´s the first race of the year.

Anyway i rode allright kinda just focusing on not doing anything stupid (so i might have been a bit slow in sections) but all & all i am pretty happy to still qualify in 25th.

Outside it´s pissing rain at the moment and weather-forecast is more rain tomorrow so i guess it will be slip & slide for the finals aswell!

Over & out!

//R

Whats up in Maribor?

Practice has been pretty good only problem is that the conditions are changing constantly.

This morning was super-slippery and then in the afternoon the track was prettymuch dry wich made it super-rough.

Did 7 runs today in total. Felt pretty good in the morning but when i did timing in the afternoon nothing seemed to click. Had 15th time but it don´t really say much...tommorrow is a different story & i actually hope it rains it suits me better.

Pin it 2 win it.

/R

Untitled from Niklas on Vimeo.