Video: Preparing for the EWS Season with Martin Maes, Flo Espiñeira, Vid Persak & Edgar Carballo

Jun 1, 2022
by Orbea  

A new era begins. The Orbea Enduro Team is excited to start the 2022 Enduro World Series by taking a step forward. With the addition of Martin Maes and Flo Espiñeira this year, who join veterans Vid Persak and Edgar Carballo, the quality of the team steps up and the fight for every podium begins.

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Though the season is about to start, the team has been working hard behind the scenes for a long time, every day — and this new film has captured that journey. For these riders, preseason is the time to get in shape for racing, to test their gear and fine-tune their settings for the season, and to spend quality time together.

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Making any equipment or component change means intense, methodical testing to find the perfect position on the bike and adjusting the settings to find the best time on the clock. But it’s not all gear: the human element is just as important in the preseason, which brings the team together for a good time off the bike.

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This season, Martin Maes and Vid Persak will compete in the Enduro World Series on their Rallon and have done plenty of testing during their preseason. This has allowed them to adjust their Rallon to shave as many seconds as possible from the clock in an effort to be the fastest competitors on the course.

EWS-E racers Flo Espiñeira and Edgar Carballo have also been working hard on fine-tuning their Wild FS. They have up to five rounds to give it their best in e-MTB this season and prove to the world what they’ve got.

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20 Comments
  • 62 12
 Poor Flo, she thought she earned a chance to race bikes, and they gave her a moped!
  • 11 2
 Regardless of the category I’m cheering for her!! She got her foot in the door, she’s getting a paycheck, n we’re all confident that she’s gonna kick ass this season. She can make moves at the end of the season.
  • 5 0
 I'm guessing it was a marketing decision and she was "strongly persuaded" to ride the e-bike. No matter. Go Flo!!!
  • 14 4
 When all pro riders are choosing smaller frames, it just tells you how stupid this ever increasing reach trend is....hope it settles down. Bikes been getting longer but seems that companies caught late with the trend and forgot where to stop.
  • 4 0
 I recently see the Jack Moir video which he says is running the new Canyon bike in size small!
  • 6 1
 Probably for us mortals it is safer to have more stable bikes and sacrifice some seconds when turning the cruise ship around. And the avid racers can always size down.
  • 11 0
 I would love to see a pinkbike podcast discussing this topic. I used to ride medium frames, now I'm looking at smalls.
  • 4 0
 @JudgeJor: I'd argue that we also ride slower than pros and with slacker HA's even a shorter reach warrants more stability than the average rider can handle.
  • 4 1
 @dick-pound: The way I see it is that a more stable bike takes more force, from terrain or rider, to move (tilt, rotate, lift) a certain amount. For average skill and athleticism, this might be better (and faster) as it inspires confidence and covers some lack in the rider by filtering the terrain. The pros dont necessarily need as much stability as they have the skill, strength and confidence, more or less on any bike. On the other hand, pros can gain some time if a less stable bike is faster to move around in some sections or do quicker line changes in not-so-well drilled trails (enduro as opposed to DH).

Of course there is a balance and many variables to this. Most people wont ever to back to back timed testing.
  • 2 0
 @trelleder: I also was saw that Jack was running a small on his new bike... He's 6ft 1inch tall!!!
  • 3 0
 Check out behind the scenes vlog from Vid Persak: Vid's Vids
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMwZ8ZDD7_M&t=4s
  • 8 3
 Poor Flo got scammed...
  • 1 0
 Did she have good results in the EWS the last couple of years?
  • 4 1
 Long neck on maes , helps him see around the corners
  • 1 0
 Oh! My hometrails. No motors allowed...
  • 2 1
 Go Martin!
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