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Route Grading
Our route gradings are simply an indication of difficulty and suggested fitness level of the suggested route.
Off-road cycling is a hazardous activity carrying some inherent risks. Please consider your skills, abilities and fitness carefully.
Green
- Green grade trails are suitable for: Novice cyclists
- Skills needed: You will need to have ridden a mountain bike before and have basic bike and cycling proficiency skills for this grade.
- Suggested fitness level: suitable for most people in good health.
- Beginner/novice cyclists. Basic Bike Skills required. Most bikes and hybrids. Some green routes can take trailers
- Expect: Relatively flat, wide and smooth trails and riding on the public highway. Gentle climbs, descents, rollers and berms, with easy to avoid features such as rocks and potholes. Surface might be loose, uneven or muddy at times in nautual terrain.
Blue - Intermediate
- Blue grade trails are suitable for: intermediate cyclists or mountain bikers with basic off-road riding skills.
- Skills needed: basic off-road riding skills to cope with uneven surfaces and small obstacles.
- Suggested fitness level: a good standard of fitness can help.
- Expect: A mixture of climbs and descents with moderate gradients, riding on the public highway, technical features like tree roots and rock steps; loose decents and ascents in natural terrain. Rollable features at controlled speed. Variable surfaces.
Red - Difficult
- Red grade trails are suitable for: proficient mountain bikers with good off-roading skills.
- Skills needed: good off-roading skills and techniques to cope with technical trail features.
- Trail and surface types: steeper and tougher, mostly singletrack with technical sections. Expect very variable surface types.
- Gradients or technical trail features: a wide range of climbs and descents of a challenging nature will be present. Expect boardwalks, berms, large rocks, medium steps, drop-offs, cambers and water crossings.
- Suggested fitness level: a higher level of fitness and stamina is required.
Black - Severe
- Black grade trails are suitable for: expert mountain bike users, used to physically demanding routes.
- Skills needed: advanced level off-roading skills and technical ability.
- Trail and surface types: as for ‘red’, but with an expectation of greater challenge and continuous difficulty. Can include any useable trail and might include exposed open hill sections.
- Gradients or technical trail features: expect large, committing and unavoidable technical trail features. Sections will be challenging and variable. Might also have ‘downhill’ style sections.
- Suggested fitness level: suitable for very active people used to prolonged effort.
- Expect: Long, steep technical rocky climbs, various descents with varying surface types. Numerous hazards including drop-offs, sharp corners and difficult features. Rapid rate of surface change and riding on public highway.
