What are racer's thoughts about crashing ?
How often is too little or too much ?
I know what Drew and Mr Shirriff's thoughts are on the matter......ya carnts !!
I mean, I try pretty damn hard and get some good results.....better than average anyway.
But I haven't crashed in the whole time I've been racing (4 years). I've had a few bins riding on the road (no major's - very badly sprained/bruised foot was the worst)
Oh hang on - I crashed a bucket (AJ's Christine) at the slipway......doing all of about 20kph. Does that count ? "Everyone" crashed Christine.
I've run off the race track 3 times at high speed. Two of those I could have seriously farked myself up, and I've had a lot of other small moments.
I never used to buy into the "you need to crash to find the bikes limits", or "if you're not crashing, you're not pushing hard enough".
I prefered to find the limits at a slightly slower rate and rely on feedback from the bike to let me know when its about to let go. But I have been recently reassessing that philosophy.
So what are your thoughts ?
p.s. This is a bit of a larf really so don't take any of it too seriously.
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