If someone is riding for the past a decade without having a spill, I would consider him/her better.
I personally would not go to a race track to race, not for me, I would go to [further] hone my skills. On a road, the more you ride, the more you read about other's experience would make you a better rider.
Every one is a different rider out there, the way one would brake/accelerate and think about an obstacle are different, this is where the gifted part comes.
Feel free to disagree but serves no purpose really and I believe we would be [further] going OT.




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