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Yeah, it's not like any of my riding is "fast" (avg 15kph, max 50kph). Only on the big fire road stuff when I let it go is it approaching anything speedy. Most of the time pain is from awkward movements that I'm doing to prevent a crash that cause body parts to hurt. Twisting and pulling on the bars or putting out big power to clamber up something or having to jump off the bike because I fucked a steep climb and landing funny.
hippy-
Yeah. Lots of awkward last moment unclips for me lately as well, usually getting stuck on super tight switchback climbs. Shortly after i fell on my bars i also had one of them and went actually down a ravine. Landed ok-ish though, luckily. I hike a biked the rest of that shitty trail from thereon. As soon as we hit wider stuff again i was fine, this was just too tech for me.
pascalo
Good fun though, until it isn't. The trail i was doing was above my pay grade, and i was already devoid of confidence and calm when i lost the front wheel on that techy climb. Even when you're not riding fast, the ground still comes at you at some tempo ...