That sounds even worse than a yoshi. What do you have to ride? [she doesn't recognize Niles' face, but admittedly she's too caught up in the race at the moment to immediately start asking general questions]

[and she chuckles at that] I hope not for your sake. Honestly, it's not that it threw me so much as...it's kind of a mini-dinosaur with a really vertical back, and it likes to jump. [she wrinkles her nose. so far, the jumping is having the immediate effect of causing her to fall right off]