Grading
Level Five:
Black Route, over 50km
- Includes extreme terrain
- Some sections can be considered totally unrideable for the majority of people
Level Four:
Red Route, 30-40km
- Steep terrain
- Larger Obstacles - requiring a high level of riding expertise
- Greater range of bodily movements is required to ride this terrain/larger boulders
- Deep narrow ruts
- Very slippery terrain
- Terrain where very good control of brakes is required
- Bike itself needs to be in very good condition
- Bike must be equipped appropriately ie good tyres, suspension, mud guards
Level Three:
Blue Route, 8-25km
- Moderately steep inclines requiring reasonable amount of effort on the climbs
- Greater degree of technical expertise needed on the descents
- Terrain may demand that riders pick a line through
- Obstacles on the terrain
Level Two:
Green Route 8-20km
- Moderate climbs
- Moderate descents
- Rougher or slightly slippery ground surface
- Picking a line will or should not be necessary
- Any line on the track should be rideable but may include; small stones, shallow broad ruts, slightly slippery terrain
Level One:
Yellow route 8km or less
- Fairly flat terrain
- Even surface over whole width of track
- Track being at least 6ft wide
- No big climbs
- No big descents
