Hello everyone and welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast. My name is Henry and a couple of weeks ago I packed up my meagre belongings into a suitcase and headed to MSA to record as many podcasts as possible.

I managed to sit down with TJ from Owlands to talk about life at the Swedish brand, how mountain bike differs for motocross and where the sport could be going.

I hope you enjoy it.

TJ, thank you very much for coming on the Pink Bike podcast.

So for those of you that don't know, well, in fact can you explain your own words what is you do for Olens?

Because I see all the races, you were really important in terms of

helping support Pink Bike Racing last year,

but at the same time you're kind of more behind the scenes than some other people.

Can you just explain what you do?

Yeah, I will try. In my position, I have many

different hats, but my main title is Mountain Bike Racing Manager. And plus I also have some

sort of performance role manager at Lins, making sure that the products that we're releasing

are up to speed and on point and have the lean standard to it.

But most likely I can say I'm running the daily business when it comes to all racing.

We have a director, Torkel, which is my closest boss, but he's more on a director level, of course, but I'm running the daily business,

having all the contacts with the teams, organizing the technician, so he's on point when he's

going to the races and so on as well, which is new to us for this year, which is great, a great

asset. So basically dealing with all the daily racing business as far as parts, I have a great

engineering team back home that I can rely on for a lot of those things as well and

so on. But yeah, making sure is sort of this spider in the net kind of thing.

It feels like when Owlins came into mountain biking, maybe, I suppose, 2017, 2018?

2017 was our first year of racing.

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