Repack is the most famous descent in Marin County, but there are others as good that the locals will never tell you about. I've never committed myself to any of the others like I have this one, and I'll never learn every feature of two miles of road like I have here. None of the others changed my life. Okay, so it's a spiritual experience. I'll do the best I can without resorting to grunts and whines.
Some sections are hard enough to ride at all, let alone going fast.
It's steep, and off-camber and the rocks are all loose except for a few that are very solid and the trick is to know which are the ones that won't move, or to ride so aggressively that it doesn't matter. I have nothing to gain by hitting the road here as hard as I did when I raced, and it seems easier to ride conservatively on a new, light, suspended bike than it did riding out of control on fifty pounds of flying iron. It all unfolds like the song you know by heart. I follow a six-inch wide track. Plenty of others know that you have to get to one side or the other for the ditch around this curve, or the change in camber that's coming up.