The attitude that I either have to be there to shoot the best pictures that have ever been taken in that spot, or I have to be there to ride faster than anyone's ever ridden before, is really ridiculous. You guys are living unfulfilling lives if you think that your experience is invalidated if it resembles someone else's.

When I ride as fast as I can, as far as I can, and break my P.R's and achieve an awesome physical feat for myself, I feel amazing. It's a natural high.

When I am careful and I compose a shot in my mind and I sit and wait an hour for the sun to set a bit farther just so I can get that composition that I was looking for, and I get it, and it looks amazing, I'm the happiest I can be.

Can't really even comprehend why you think that's a waste of my time just because Ansel Adams took a nicer picture and Tommy Godwin rode farther.