Grade Needed for Decent Freeride Trail

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Grade Needed for Decent Freeride Trail
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flag Justin678
Posted: Apr 5, 2020 at 10:10 Quote
I'm thinking about building a freeride style trail. I want to incorporate wooden drops, step downs, step ups, and some tables. When I'm surveying the purposed trail on Google Earth I'm getting an average grade of 7-8%. Do you believe this is steep enough for a decent freeride trail or should I focus on making it an XC trail?

Thanks for your input.
flag bulletbassman
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Posted: Apr 12, 2020 at 17:33 Quote
Free ride is just being creative with the terrain at hand so I don’t see why not
flag d-man
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Posted: Apr 14, 2020 at 16:48 Quote
Suit the trail to the terrain, imo wood features should be to enhance the natural terrain.
flag bigburd
Posted: Apr 16, 2020 at 12:14 Quote
Like others have said, build it to suit the hill, as it's not steep avoid corners you need to brake for to keep flow up, look for natural lumps and bumps you can craft into lips or landings.

I don't know the gradient but my closest local is pretty flat, and I have made freeride/dh style trails that work on DH bikes, short sprint at the top and off the brakes all the way down, jumps range from bike length to 35ft range.

Got vids and pics of it in my albums if it helps.
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