Maelstrom: I doubt I go as fast as you since I'm on a Hardrock but still, I'll have to rethink it then. What exactly do you mean by losing parts? Losing them in crashes, them simply coming off or...?
mcoine: No offense taken and don't worry, I've already replaced pretty much everything that was prone to breaking so no worrying about me breaking my bike.
Pheard: The thing is, I only take the funicular (in this case acts as a shuttle) up the mountain when I'm doing a second or even third run of the mountain, apart from that I usually pedal up from my house and that's a good 1 hour climb, non-stop gradient upwards. Even if I take the shuttle I still have to pedal 30 or so minutes from my house so it's not just DH. One run usually is 2-3 trails (depends on how you link them up) and even then I have to pedal a few minutes from DH trail to DH trail.
By the way, yeah I just realised that about the current speed.
OK, there's no need for current speed.
