Reviews for Ae Forest Mountain Bike Trails

Summary:
Full Red Route - Wasn't worth the climb

Review:
I visited Ae Forest for the first time yesterday and to make a day of it headed for the full red. I think it was about 15 miles (24km) so expected some exciting stuff. For the most part I felt like I spent most of the time climbing and never really coming back down. There's a lot of switchbacks you find yourself climbing up but when it comes to the DHs they're fairly level and some even have some climbing, I can't say I really understand how they've worked it considering how much you ascend. The terrain is rough in parts, a lot of loose rocks, that doesn't really bother me all that much but I know some aren't keen. You finish the whole trail up by joining the orange jump line where you go from almost no features at all on the red trail to large drop offs. There wasn't really an in between. Overall I found my day pretty boring and though I enjoyed the climbing and the scenery was spectacular, I thought at the end of it I would be rewarded with a few miles of great downhill but I wasn't. If you're visiting I would recommend you give the red route a miss unless you're looking for something easy to just trondle along. If you're looking for fun I'd take the push path up to the top of the shredder or perhaps do some research as I noticed a lot of unofficial trails which looked like theyd be a great amount of fun. Unfortunately for me it was pouring down and due to these trails being completely natural they were totally water bogged.
All in all, I think there is a great amount of potential here. Instead of making the route so long and fairly featureless, I feel as though they should have used the gradient more and madre some shorter but more fun trails!
If you're passing I wouldn't avoid it, I'd definitely try out some of the unofficial stuff, and the coffee is pretty decent too!

Summary:
My intro to MTB'n

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This was my first trail centre and absolutely loved it! Jumped straight into a red, some difficult technical section but worth a visit

Summary:
awsome

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this trail is awsome to learn to learn downhill on. if you go dont ride up fire roads, push up it instead but be careful.

Summary:
great fun and good uplifts

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great track its keeps getting made better too with new bits, some big jumps, good fun, its pretty short tho, about 2 to 2 an half mins but it means it a pretty easy track to push up when the uplift isn't on.

Summary:
SOOO much fun

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probably the best trail to learn new stuff on. This trail has jumps, tables and doubles, step downs, huge berms and a big road gap. It flows realy well and the sufface drains well too!
ONE OF THE MOST FUN TRAILS THAT I HAVE RIDDEN!