Ride Review - Summey Cove

Phew, fuck ass, this is one of those short long pisgah rides. I did this ride 2 weekends ago and am just now gathering the courage to write about it. What it lacks in length, it makes up for in kick your fucking assness.

The first 80 percent of this ride is not really much harder than bent creek, is one of the most scenic rides I've done in many a fort nites, and has a 60+ waterfall on the route with a kick fucking ass swimming hole.

Its after leaving the waterfall that things get innaresting. Unfortunately my C-dale prophet is out of the bizness for awhile waiting on a warranty part replacement(broken cranks), so I decided to go old school and ride a 1990 cannondale fully rigid bike. This baby is old school with canty brakes and skinny tires and not many gears. The last 2 miles of the ride took me right at 1-1/2 hours, no shit jack. After a nice smooth decent your greeted by one of the worst hike a bike or more like crawl a bike's anywhere. After reaching the summit, you have a very nasty decent, very very steep and sketchy. After knocking the snot outta myself 3 times in ten minutes I adopted for a bit of walking and then ended with some nice singletrack at the end.