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"but you will be very unpopular if your attention wanders, you clip a wheel and go down taking four others with you."
this actually happened a month ago ...
I usually get worried about two types of riders - either the tyros who think that they know it all after 0.1 second and then charge around until at some point they learn, maybe after taking out people around them *, or the second very nervous, unsure or unfit riders who don't know how to work with the experience and fitness they have.
HH works along the lines of people taking a lot of responsibility for assessing their own fitness and experience. Other tracks use more formal systems of 'tickets' and the like though this puts a pressure on coaches who at HH are already overworked and underpaid. Keeping the informal vibe at the track probably also means keeping the sense of riders taking responsibility for themselves, maybe more so than other similar sports venues.