Along the way, we found a couple more drops, both natural and man-made, a hairpin turn and a short yet nasty rock garden. The final highlight of the track is near the foot of the hill behind Ban Huai Nam Khem primary school. It’s a rocky section where the fastest line is in the air. During the recent National Games, some of the top racers launched themselves off a rock and literally flew over the others. None of us three dared to do that though. The landing was strewn with large protruding rocks, some of them sharp-edged. If anything goes wrong, which for me was likely to be the case, one of us could end up going home with broken bones. So we skipped that and rode on the safe, normal line between the rocks instead.