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Your best video yet, we are all supporting you
You’re still very young. Keep riding, your body will bounce back in no time. All the best! 🚵🏻♀️
After my first big crash, I definitely backed off. I ride more carefully and can appreciate what I’m doing. I got to stay safe out there don’t overdo it.
Hmm, I guess your crash was a wakeup call. It’s good sometimes to stop and reassess. It’s balance isn’t it between the buzz and the risks. Your “wild boar” confidence will come back, it might just take a while 😊
I broke my neck in 2010, and vowed to never ride again. 12 years later I’m going strong, just maybe a little slower and more cautious.
This sport is the best, even if it’s just XC riding.
You’re an inspiration Yuka! Thanks for sharing your journey with us with the authentic emotions of vulnerability and uncertainty. I tore my ACL and lateral meniscus last year, and the recovery was worsened by a post surgical DVT, and then months later, I too caught COVID, which ironically made my knee pain a lot worse. Getting back on a bike has been difficult for me as well, but it’s worth it. I feel your pain too. Not being able to clean technical features that used to be a breeze, or only being able to ride half the distance at a much decreased speed has been frustrating and left me feeling defeated more than once, but I’m keeping at it. After many months of internal debate, I finally decided to pick up an ebike (gasp!) , albeit a low powered lighter ebike (Spec. Kenevo SL) that feels more like a normal bike. I don’t like riding ebikes with the weight, and pushy torque, but this one feels a little more natural, and it gives me just a bit of assist to take the edge off. I’m not concerned with Strava times, or being competitive with other riders on the trail, I just want to ride and enjoy the woods again like you, and this “rehab” bike has really helped. However you decide to get back to the trails, what’ important is you follow your heart. I love mountain biking like you, and Yukan Doit!!
I think one needs to take time to apuse, reflect, perhaps rethink priorities. Mountain biking should be fun above all else. At 68, it is no longer fun. I’ve lost my passion for MTB. So I’m calling it quits–sort’a–selling off the hard core bikes and gear–going full circle– back to a basic XCish hardtail so I can ride nearby greens and blues, and fire roads for exercise– when I want to, not because I feel obligated to. So Yuka, perhaps for now, ride within in your boundaries, consider pushing them once again when the heart and mind have healed. Until then…,平和になり、静けさを楽しみ、山の静けさを楽しみ、幸せになり、心と心が続きます。
I think ultimately we all end up questioning if something we love, that is inherently risky is worth doing any more. I used to road race motorcycles and after my first big wreck at over 100mph, I spent months rehabilitating and thinking it was not worth they risk. But I gave it another try and raced happily for another 5 years after and only quitting after my first child was born. MTB has given me a second life on two wheels and while sometimes dangerous and accidents can happen at any time, I at least can control my risk and levels of fun. The beautiful thing is that while jumps and progressing is fun, so is just getting out in the trees, breathing fresh air and meandering down some simple flowy singletrack. I enjoy jumps and drops, but I’d happily give most them up and ride around them if it meant I could keep riding the other stuff.
My last crash 6 years ago, has left me with a brain injury which affects my day to day life, although is much improved from the early days when things were quite bad. That crash also resulted in broken bones, torn ligaments, ruptured muscles, and, I later found out, a bit of PTSD. Getting back on my bike was not easy that time. I had crashed many times before, and some were seriously, but this time, the very sound of wheels on gravel made me spontaneously burst into tears and my body to freeze, the bike just dropping away beneath my body. It took a long time to reintroduce myself to riding again, but because of the brain injury, and just not wanting to get hurt again, I don’t ride technical trails anymore. I ride where my mind can be relaxed, and if I come across something that is stressful, I get off and walk. I have no ego attached to my riding. I’m just doing it for fun, for freedom, for enjoyment, to be in nature. I’m leaving the adventurous stuff to those who don’t mind getting hurt, as I used to be, but after you’ve damaged your brain, you just don’t want to put yourself in further harm’s way by engaging in higher risk riding anymore.
ah good. I was fearing this would be another video like paul the punter. phew, crisis averted.
俺も今年、白馬で肋骨を折ってしまいました。年齢と共にスキルが落ちてきている感じもあるし……バイクそろそろかな?って思うんですが……。山が好きだし、バイクもダウンヒルも大好きなので辞めれない
Don’t quit it’s all a mental hurdle when I broke my collar bone and wrist it took me months before I was even game to look at my bike IV now gone from downhill/freeride to road and xc
I’ve been thinking about this too but I’m trying to use it as a learning experience.. get a back protector and be more patient about how my skills progress. I love it too much to quit, but injuries are very trying on your soul
Maybe stop jumping and ride trails 😂
Actually no need to be hitting jumps or doing Double blacks to enjoy MTB
I guess many guys think similar and being sympathetic.
Not great as you but I got my important thumb broken, never be good as was.
But mtb has many faces and the journey like you did is a shinny side making us glorious again. Thanks for this great movie. BTW I think you do jump again.
A-LOT of bike trails that dont require mtb.✌
I know exactly where you’re coming from. It takes time. Let this situation evolve and redefine your riding into something diff than it was before. Diff is ok, it doesn’t imply failure. Try not to let lingering fear keep you from doing something you enjoy. 😎
Glad you’re back! Keep with it. Even little crashes can set your confidence back a bit.
Stuff like this is why I keep to single track. I’m older now, 37, and just don’t have fun hitting jumps. Risk and reward is just not there.