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[QUOTE="duncanstives, post: 1418958, member: 110498"] 12 miles? Yikes... Presumably you brought your bike on a truck... If it was a gravel road why not just walk out and get the truck? As for not being able to judge the risks: I've crashed enough to know the risk is pretty high but I also know that I crash when I'm doing something more difficult then I've tried before or find myself in terrain that is more than I can handle. In the case of this trip I didn't try anything risky and I had travelled the trail many times so I knew it was a cake walk (relatively speaking). I will say its impressive how much you can gain skill and how rewarding those gains are in how confident and effective a rider you are. Just when I think I'm getting decent at biking I get even better and look back on just a couple days ago and realize how far I've come. So far I find that its a game of confidence: The more confident you are the better you are... I am getting to the point where I TRUST that (for example) the back tire will slide out if I gas it around a corner... It messes with your head because you know if something doesn't work that way you intend then all that throttle will have made it too late to slow down and try it at a lower speed... The thing is that the only reason it WOULDN'T work the way you intended is if you didn't gas it hard enough... Same with jumps: NOT hitting it hard enough is the primary way to fail... The one thing thats helped me most is learning to just gas it and trust in the princible of the thing... I still remember the moment I started to grasp that: Toward the end of my very first ride I was exausted (heat exaustion) and beat after spending the day picking my way around carefully in first gear... One of the last big hills had a bunch of huge bolder filled ruts all the way up... To tired to even consider picking my way up carefully with many stops and backing up and CAREFULLY trying not to wheelie while starting again I just gunned it and hoped for the best: I missed every single line I tried to take... No matter what I tried doing I was ALWAYS in the exact place I didn't want to be but I just kept on the throttle and hung on for dear life and was astounded when I found myself at the top still on the bike... It was one of those light bulb moments... I actually stopped for like a full minute to consider the implications. [/QUOTE]
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