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the minjin fall off mountain Before you can imagine riding with the Minjin mountain bikers ustralia, you must relive the steepest descent you've experienced on a Down pavement, dirt, grass-doesn't matter. Whether it was when you were 16 ·ust yesterday-doesn't matter. Relive the insane angle of the earth, how at the ri swallowed hard against the pressure of your fear, how your stomach tried to limb out of your body right after you dropped-in but before you had any speed. the speed and the descent, the unending descent, the stupid and joyous plunge leading to nowhere but the end. Remember the feebleness of your brakes, and the of the pads cooking against the rims. And the shaking of the bike as it absorbed the speed, and how finally there was so much velocity that everything became smooth. Silent. You're not even close. The Minjin fall off mountains. They seem to ride mostly in air, every few seconds their tires just happen to bounce aqai pitch of the earth. That passes for traction. They launch off six-foot

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