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. And 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)

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