Far better to treat them as a collective set and be grateful at how lucky we are.

It is self-defeating to try and liken Blue Derby's lush beauty with the sweeping sands of St Helens or the genteel Latrobe to Railton cruise of Wild Mersey with the terrifying descents of Maydena.

Like the components of a Rolls Royce, each brings their individuality to create a desirable overall product.

Furthermore, that product is constantly evolving and introducing new features to remain a market leader.

The latest of which are the developments to the network of trails at Penguin.

The North-West tourist hotspot was among the first to the Tasmanian mountain bike party but has recently returned to the dance floor with some eye-catching moves.

Formed in 2009, Cradle Coast Mountain Bike Club leased the disused Penguin Speedway from Central Coast Council, tidied it up and started building trails. More than a decade later, it hasn't stopped.

CCMBC is justifiably proud of the result which offers riders the same thrill as anything previously experienced in motorised transport at the venue.

Paid for either by club fund-raising or Tas Community Fund grants, the trails have hosted the Australian Masters Games, Tasmanian Cross-Country Championships, Tas Gravity Enduro Series, Cranky Penguin marathon and many club races.

But the story doesn't end there, and it's the latest chapter that had me heading north-west to explore new trails in the Dial Range, which conveniently sits just south of the park, begging to be explored.

Club president Chris Stredwick explained: "Unlike the Penguin MTB Park where the club holds the lease on the grounds, so we can build pretty much what we want, construction in the Dial Range means working with Parks and Wildlife and conforming to all the requirements of building in a Parks reserve.

"It has been a long process, but in December 2018 the club opened the first official MTB trail in the Dial Range, the Montgomery Loop."

This was funded by the club, Central Coast Council and the Department of State Growth's Tasmanian Cycle Tourism Strategy.

A second stage, comprising a 6.2km Iron Tor loop and dual-direction Ironcliffe Ridge covering the last 1.4km to the summit of Mount Dial, has been calling my name since opening in September.

It did not disappoint and firmly places Penguin among Tasmania's must-visit mountain bike destinations, if it wasn't already.

The park is easy to reach off the Bass Highway via Dial Road, the accurately-named Sports Complex Road and Ironcliffe Road.

Start 'Em Up (300m), Easy Peasy (800m) and Stalking Rooster (1.2km) are all rated easy and serve the purpose of delivering riders to Montgomery Road and the start of the Dial Range trails.

The next hour is spent in granny gears accumulating altitude as the first half of the 6km Montgomery Loop and Iron Tor Climb (3km) weave their way alongside walking tracks to surrounding peaks and the famed Penguin Cradle Trail which links Bass Strait with the Overland Track.

The trail construction is excellent. In contrast to the traditional approach of periodic ridges for rainwater run-off, drainage ditches achieve the same purpose. Having a permanent half-metre drop for company also serves to keep riders attentive.

The gradient is fairly constant but achievable for those of reasonable fitness, with occasional berms and rocky sections no harder than similarly-graded trails at Derby - not that I'm comparing them of course.

Ironcliffe Ridge is a superb feat of engineering, meandering around rock and tree obstacles via two viewpoints delivering splendid westerly panoramas across rich green paddocks towards Table Cape. In contrast, the 482m Mount Dial summit lookout, reached via a final circuitous technical challenge, faces an easterly horizon dominated by the Triple Top Challenge peaks of Mount Roland, Van Dyke and Claude.

Retracing the ridge - and tackling some tempting B-lines - delivers riders onto the 3.3km Iron Tor Descent, complete with one more breath-taking lookout. Its "more difficult" grading was apt with some sections on the blacker shade of blue and too much for this boy. I'm not embarrassed to admit that a Penguin met a chicken a few times.

But there was much to love as the altitude reading fell and speed rose.

The aptly-named Return of the Penguin (1.5km), Ringtail (400m) and Prehistoric Park (600m) returned us to base where we couldn't resist a circuit of Flying in a Blue Dream (2km) to complete the network.

Our total distance was 21.66km (although it felt longer) with 726m elevation, a moving time of 2.34:35 and average speed of just 8.4km/h (a result of all that climbing and some timid descending).

Where the Dial Range trails score highly on adrenaline, they fall down on access. The need for emergency services to reach injured riders is an issue all mountain bike locations face. Derby has largely tackled the matter retrospectively while St Helens was more proactive. Penguin appears to have taken the approach to leave the onus of responsibility on the rider.

Maps carry warnings of the trails' remote and exposed nature, saying riders "should be prepared to deal with an accident" and "are encouraged to use an emergency app to communicate their location to emergency services if required".

This should not deter keen riders and, after financing and building such a superb two-wheel theme park, CCMBC cannot be responsible for those who get carried away on the rides.

Club members are delighted with the fruits of their labours, which are free to access and enjoy.

There is also a significant difference from other Tasmanian destinations.

"We are very proud of what a very small club has been able to achieve, especially when compared to council-run and managed trail areas like Blue Derby, Wild Mersey and St Helens," Stredwick said.

"We do all the planning, mapping, ground truthing, environmental surveys, project management, fund-raising and grant proposals to make these trails happen with a group of about eight volunteer committee members that all have full-time jobs and families."

The result has to be seen, and ridden, to be believed.