Neko Mulally on Designing His Own World Cup DH Race Bike - a podcast by BLISTER
from 2022-01-13T15:30:25
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Neko Mulally has had a very successful career racing for some of the biggest teams on the World Cup circuit, so we were surprised — and excited — when he announced that he was launching his own team for the 2022 season, and racing a bike that he designed himself. So we had to get Neko on Bikes & Big Ideas to talk about how he decided to take on such an ambitious project; designing the bike(s) and working with Frank The Welder to build them; starting his own team; and a whole lot more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Project origins & initial concepts (1:31)
- Making the leap & leaving Intense (16:00)
- Working with Frank the Welder (19:00)
- Design goals & tradeoffs (28:09)
- Going from kinematics & geometry to a real bike design (35:07)
- Testing & refining the design (48:37)
- Sponsorship & starting a team (59:00)
- Neko’s Big Idea (1:06:17)
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- Neko's video series, FRAMEWORKS
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