3,934 ft
Distance
9 ft
Climb
-124 ft
Descent
00:07:05
Avg time

Grinder Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
    • E-Bike
  • Riding Area
    Whakarewarewa Forest
    Rotorua
  • Difficulty Rating
    Blue rate
  • Voted Difficulty
    Blue (2 votes)
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Direction
    Downhill Only
    Popular direction shown
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • eBike Allowed
    Yes up to Class 1
  • Global Ranking
    #2492 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • #872 in E-Biking
  • Local Popularity
    65 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • 60 in E-Biking

Downhill rolling old school track, moderately fast flowing singletrack with some small berms and jumps. Dense forest canopy keeps a lot of the rain off, so this is a good trail to ride when trails are wet elsewhere.

There is the old line at the top that starts at the Double Down entrance and contours along to join where the main entrance now is, not used very much, but is a not little addition to the start of the tail

source: Ride Rotorua
Access Info

Starts from Katore Rd, a short distance up from the intersection with Nursery Rd.

Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Grinder mountain bike trail trail
  • Altitude change
    -117 ft
  • Altitude min
    1,176 ft
  • Altitude max
    1,293 ft
  • Altitude start
    1,293 ft
  • Altitude end
    1,175 ft
  • Grade
    -3%
  • Grade max
    -15.3%
  • Grade min
    7.4%
  • Distance climb
    328 ft
  • Distance down
    3,307 ft
  • Distance flat
    302 ft
  • Avg time
    00:07:05
  • Avg reverse time
    00:15:31
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Status:
on Jan 13, 2022
Ideal
Avg: 3.9 (18 votes)

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  • Icy
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  • Ideal
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      Grinder Trail Reports

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      Jan 13, 2022 @ 12:21pm
      Jan 13, 2022
      		 reporter
      Vegetation Trimmed FRU
      Dec 27, 2021 @ 7:52pm
      Dec 27, 2021
      Oct 19, 2021 @ 8:07pm
      Oct 19, 2021
      		 Dodgy tree
      Aug 18, 2021 @ 5:30pm
      Aug 18, 2021
      Jul 4, 2021 @ 2:18pm
      Jul 4, 2021
      		 reporter
      Working bee completed maintenance on trail. 4 July
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

      Past Week
      • 11 rides
      • 20 miles avg distance
      6 Months
      • 157 rides
      • 18 miles avg distance
      All
      • 2,135 rides
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      Photos

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      38 |
      May 30, 2018 @ 4:36pm
      May 30, 2018
      50 |
      Sep 22, 2017 @ 6:10pm
      Sep 22, 2017
      41 |
      Sep 22, 2017 @ 6:10pm
      Sep 22, 2017
      335 |
      Dec 1, 2013 @ 12:14am
      Dec 1, 2013

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