I am available to take you out if you like to give a few pointers. can also contact Daniel from i-ride africa or Chris Nixon The Fabien Barrel clips are helpful. back to the topic. grading a route is very hard, I have found that even with rock climbing the grading of routes of the same difficulty will be different based on how good the climbers in the area is. for example the cape town routes grading was much lower for the same route in gauteng. if someone complains the route is too technical I have found it is usually riders towards the extended end of the age spectrum. that are truly scared of falling. I rode the de doorn PPA event in May and the triple down arrows was there for every dirt road downhill. It looked like they had a quota to use for the event. I do get why especially for noobs. However by pointing out there might be something dangerous around every corner makes the rider which is scared to fall already, even more nervous on something that's not dangerous and he ends up falling from being nervous and twitchy and bombs out his confidence even more. bottom line you will always have someone that will complain that it is too technical. maybe ask the guy that complains and get him to grade the route.
