Mulally and Borque Take Gravity East Season DH Titles

Neko Mulally, Specialized Team America’s 16-year-old phenom, is Gravity East’s 2009 Professional Men’s Champion in both the downhill and the dual slalom divisions.

Mulally and women’s downhill champ Dawn Bourque of Rhino Bike Works took home their titles following this past weekend’s Gravity East Finals at Plattekill Mountain  New York.

“We have seen the future, and it’s scary fast,” Gravity East publicist Ken Getchell said  of Mulally.  “He’s fast and smooth and picks uncanny lines. Just think what’s he’s going to be like as his body physically matures over the next couple of years.”

Jason Memmelaar (Hayes/5 ten/Manitou/Smith), the winner of the Seven Springs round, was runner-up in the season standings.  Alejandro Ortiz (Nema/Morpheous – Ecuador) finished the year on two podiums, as runner-up to Mulally in the e.thirteen Dual Slalom points championship and as third place overall in the Downhill standings.

Bourque, meanwhile, dominanted in winning the women’s Gravity East Downhill Series. The 44-year-old phenom won seven of the Gravity East downhills, including five in a row. After missing the first three races, Bourque went on to win every other downhill on the Gravity East Schedule, with the exception of the new venue at Eastern Pennsylvania’s Vertical Earth Mountain Bike Park at Blue Mountain, where Karen Eagan of Samuel Adams Brewery took the victory.

Eagan had what many riders would consider a dream year in the Gravity East this year, winning the e.thirteen dual slalom title and finishing second in the Downhill standings. Overall, Eagan won three times in Gravity East competition this year; twice in dual slalom and once in downhill.

Mulally finished the season with five Gravity East downhill victories and never finished lower than fifth (one race). On the dual slalom side, he finished with a perfect score of five victories after dropped races were calculated. Only a crash in the semi-finals of Saturday’s e.thirteen dual slalom kept him from sweeping every race.

In on-track action, 208 entries — 174 in downhill alone — signed into Plattekill despite rainy conditions.

Homepage photo of Plattekill racer by Matthew DeLorme

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