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In all honesty Claire, no you won’t… Downhill VTT was my scariest experience… You can’t break… Because you can’t sit on the seat, it’s constantly bouncing… No weight over the rear wheel, apply rear brakes and the back end just swings from side-to-side, no traction… Apply front brakes and you go straight over handlebars… staring nearly 2,000m down the mountainside…
Eventually, I learned to lean back over the rear wheel, putting my weight over it, not on it, gently applying rear brakes, then gently (always gently) applying front brakes…
In all honesty Claire, no you won’t… Downhill VTT was my scariest experience… You can’t break… Because you can’t sit on the seat, it’s constantly bouncing… No weight over the rear wheel, apply rear brakes and the back end just swings from side-to-side, no traction… Apply front brakes and you go straight over handlebars… staring nearly 2,000m down the mountainside…
Eventually, I learned to lean back over the rear wheel, putting my weight over it, not on it, gently applying rear brakes, then gently (always gently) applying front brakes…