Little anecdote:
I thought it was easy to not go down too. Then one night in my second season I made a little mistake, lowsided, and went home with a bloody elbow and a turn signal in my pocket. A guy who apparently was also a rider was walking with his family nearby and came running over. Once he made sure I was OK he shook my hand and said “There are only two kinds of riders: Those who have gone down and those who are going to go down. Be glad your no longer part of the latter.”