- If you're going to crash, aim for a small tree or bush. Big trees will hurt you worse, or kill you.
- If you and a small tree are being inexorably drawn together by the charisma of your careening bike, put your head down and let your helmet take the brunt of it (learnt from experience).
- When riding through a sandy, twisty trail lined with thorny bushes and/or whippy plants, lean forward and keep pedalling to prevent the bike from swerving.
- In the kilometer 30 under the unmerciful blaze of the afternoon sun and with lunch another 15 km away, use your damn gears and keep pedalling.
- Visualize that cool drink and keep going.
- A warning shout to the stray dog(s) napping in the middle of the road is always good.
- When keeping clear of a larger, faster vehicle, it's better to just ride through the muddy puddle than steer along the extreme edge of the track. Dirt washes off (a very good mantra for everything); broken bones don't.
- Use rear brakes more than front brakes to avoid flying over the handlebars.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Things learnt from mountain biking
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