Racing World Cup DH is hard. So is designing a bike to do it at the top level, and running a team isn’t exactly a cakewalk either. But after a season of doing all three concurrently, Neko Mulally is still having a blast, and is running his Frameworks team and self-designed bike back for a second season. So we sat back down with Neko to catch up on how the 2022 season went, what he learned from year one, what’s changed with the bike (it’s a lot), and a whole lot more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Lessons learned from the Gen 1 bikes (2:48)
- Mid-pivot bike (10:18)
- Neko’s broken finger & the start of the WC season (17:23)
- The mental battles of racing (21:19)
- Regrouping between Lourdes and Fort William (23:18)
- Bike updates & development (25:40)
- Carbon fiber rear triangle (40:59)
- Steel front triangle? (56:16)
- Rock Creek (1:03:41)