Richard Rude Jr. of Santa Cruz – All Ride Academy rails a berm at an earlier Gravity East race (Highland MTB) (Image credit: Shanti Colangelo-Curran)
The Gravity East Series will finish out its sophomore season of downhill racing with events on each of the next three weekends. This weekend, September 26-27, Gravity East will open as the first major racing event hosted at the brand-new Vertical Earth Gravity Park at Pennsylvania's Blue Mountain.
The following weekend, October 3-4, will again see a new track as Mount Snow, Vermont, will use the Gravity East Series to unveil the recently constructed "Trail 13".
Then, on October 10-11, the top downhillers in the East, and from throughout North America, will compete in the Gravity East Finals at Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury, New York.
All three venues will also host rounds of the 2009 Gravity East e.thirteen Dual Slalom Series.
Sue George is an editor at Cyclingnews. She coordinates all of the site's mountain bike race coverage and assists with the road, 'cross and track coverage.
