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[QUOTE="Michelle, post: 92530, member: 16598"] Way to go :) As for riding up the tricky downhill, it's because a) you prefer uphills b) you'd walked down it and had picked a line while doing so (even without realising). I hope the weather was warm enough so you didn't catch cold riding whilst damp. Glad someone knew what to do with a drowned bike :) Anyone get any pictures of the trip? It sounds like fun. As for my ride, what a hoot! We went off (XR200 and me) at some stage, got told that we could do a half loop if we wanted, so thought we'd see how it was going. I really couldn't get into the rhythm, but had moments of inspiration along the way. I think the first problem we came to was a downhill with a root near the top (big root across the trail, just over the brow). Anyway, I saw it, worked out the line I wanted to take and went for it. The hill was sort of two in one, so on the fairly straight bit, I stopped to make sure the XR200 was going to be okay (stuff the bike, but I want my friend to keep riding, but don't want to name her). She struggled a bit with the root, ran off the trail and fell. We got her down to my bike, but the problem was I couldn't really get on the bike at that point, so just walked it down the rest of the hill. After riding about another 1/2 minute, we stopped for a break (I know it seemed pointless, but it was a safer spot than where we'd been). Carried on pretty much without any incidents, until we got to an uphill. I took the wrong line (wide), which left me at a yuck angle to get down the hill on the other side. I looked at the downhill where the XR200 was poised above, and decided, stuff this, I'm not going down that. So we got back down, went to ride around the hill, got hopelessly lost, found the trail we'd been on already, carried on, got further lost, found the trail again and decided to just carry on as we were. All the way along I was thinking, we're going to get to this hill again, there's no way around it that I can see, I've got to get to the bottom of it, preferably in one piece. I can do this, sure I can. Anyway, finally got there, took the line I knew I wanted this time, dropped the front over and down I went, missing the tree on the side, stopping to see how XR200 was going to do it. She yelled at me to come back up & take her bike down, but I needed a pit stop real bad. I also decided if I did take it down, knowing my luck I'd stuff it up, so we just dragged it down. The next downhill we came to we were unaware of until we were over & it was cool (Bbbom, your words came to me about doing something without thinking about it, much easier than if you do stop & think, totally agree). The next downhill I stuffed up big time. My bike stopped before I did, and all both of us could see was me heading straight for a tree head first. I was thinking, ah well, I can buy another helmet, but it's going to look dumb riding without a peak again, and I hope the chin bar stays together. XR200 was thinking, how are we going to explain this to the guys and where do I say Michelle is lying hehehe. Stopped just before the tree after eating heaps of dirt and pine needles. XR200 found another way down the hill, where again we bulldozed the bike down. While sitting there laughing about the incident, a couple of guys came along and asked if we were okay. We told them we were just waiting to see how the good riders did it, so one of them went around again and showed us while the other talked us through about body positioning, standing on the downhills (I'm not confident using the rear brake while standing). We got back, with the ambulance driver telling us "cool, I can go now, did I confuse you taking down the arrows before you'd come back hehe". Ian's real helpful sometimes, actually he often helps out after spending a day looking after us all (organised rides, not general trail riding). We got a lot of flak for taking our time, but it wasn't us that said we'd definitely do the small loop, we'd said we'd see how we felt. The main reason we got in trouble wasn't the time taken, but the fact that XR200's husband's bike had broken down and he wanted the XR to take arrows in - typical for him, even if we came back with a broken something we'd cop abuse if he needed the bike lol. Michelle [/QUOTE]
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