You are in freefall, discombobulated by a kaleidoscope of unfathomable spatial awareness before a violent meeting with the ground. Your sympathetic nervous system has been rapidly shunted into fight or flight; you are now bathed in adrenaline, all rational thought suspended. You have just crashed.
But let’s just back up a little bit to your first ever ride, the one with your mum or dad hanging onto the back of your saddle. This was not so much you learning to ride as a lesson in trusting the
