down hill scardy pants

[Reesha]

I LOVE flying down hills, and I think it's because I had a big hill I used to fly down as a kid on my wee 1 speed.

I get out of the saddle, stretch my legs so that my rear end is out over the back of the saddle, my arms are long, my head is kind of between my shoulders, and I look where I want the bike to go.

It also helps to say, "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

I third this!!!!

The first big hills I ever went down brakeless I was instructed to go "waaaahoooooooooo!" and it totally worked as if screaming was the fear being squeezed out of me as I breezed downward.

I'm still afraid though, particularly when it's an unfamiliar hill, oddly textured asphalt, busy with cars or particularly curvy and I can't see the bottom.