Downhill is the only thing i do where i get to fully focus on the thing I'm doing at that very moment - charging down the hill as fast as possible. Theres no other thing in life you can do that, theres always something running through th back of your mind, something nibbling at you. But when you're mackin' down the hill at roughly 45 k's an hour with a roller set to long tight berm ahead, that's all you've got to focus on, its all you do focus on.
The feeling of freedom in riding downhill is really indescribable to the un-initiated.
I go on a multi hour cross country ride to chill, have a good time.
I go on a road ride if I want to scare myself ****less.