Originally Posted by
ThermionicScott
If nothing else, it seems that you're not afraid of crashing.
Sometimes I wonder if I don't crash enough to be comfortable pushing my bike-handling limits. So I rarely try new things.
Well I don't particularly like crashing, and I am afraid of it if I think about it, but I don't usually think about it. Back when I started road riding, I took a corner too fast (or wrong line too fast more likely) on my first big mountain descent trying to keep up with the fastest guy on the college race team. I feel like that helped me learn my cornering limits quick and I've been one of the faster guys at descending ever since. I'm hoping something good comes from a few beginner crashes on trail features. At least these are all low speed.