Okay, i wanted to carry this discussion further from the 'times are a changing post'. We were talking about what makes riding 'difficult', and ways in which organized places such as trail centers do to have harder/easier sections of a trail.
So for the record I'll start on a few ideas for now and see where it takes us:
Rock gardens; is the idea of riding on a rock hard per se, or is the the hard part picking a line or at least picking the fastest line that makes it difficult?
Corners; flat, bermed, loose, the surface, camber, roots, rocks. I guess for me riding a flat corner fast is the key to be a fast rider, its easy to pootle round, put to actually pin it, stay on the bike and not blow through the corner is hard/difficult. Then I have my weakness', like right handers are worse for me than left handers, i tend to have an itchy left index finger when it comes to right handers.
Sections; what i mean by this is say a right hander into off camber followed by a drop into an opposite camber section....the idea that your bike and body has to be in two balance points at any one time, and to achieve this seems impossible.
More later I sure...but I think this will get the ball rolling.
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