Fun, honest video. Thanks! At 65 years, my days of attempting some of those rock and drop features are behind me but I still find lots of good riding in Pisgah and DuPont, also Occoee? At GA border.
Thanks! New stuff is smooth and flowy. Next time we are down there we are going to ride from Turkey Creek Rd to Clawhammer. Plenty of chunky goodness there!
I had to subscribe bc I like how you keep it real w/ the hike a bike, lol, and that podcast you were joking about actually ended up being helpful, since I live close to Pisgah. Also, appreciate the dark humor. Sucks abt the food. I don’t usually make comments or subscribe. But this shit made me laugh.
I wish they would open some of the trails in the GSMNP to bikes. Like Cooper road trail and Rabbit Creek. Hell they let horses go through there why not some bike traffic. Great video man. Nice to see some different areas like that.
Im not familiar with “GSMNP”? Pisgah is such an amazing place for mountain biking! I haven’t found anywhere else on the east coast that compares to it! Thanks brother 🙏
4:55 the old sections weren’t really fun tech in my opinion. Mostly erosion paths and water bar drops into more erosion. There’s still plenty of gnarly natural tech on other trails in Pisgah, but with better erosion control on most of it. The rebuilt section is vastly more fun now
Shouldn't a full black video include the interminable hikeabike over upper black (in local parlance the reroute is called middle and lower black)? I've done it a couple times (2x too many), and want to show my wife what she's missing.
@@BrandonLittle Fair, you can't include everything obv, and you did include much of the un-ridable portions of Upper Black. I hiked it this past Wednesday as part of PSR and I was looking for some of the more ridiculous rock features you had to climb up and around. So crazy. Nice video. Thanks.
@@alexkirby5553 I think I remember the suffer-fest section you are referring to? Sometimes when I'm just climbing in complete pain and agony I tend to forget I'm trying to capture footage for a RUclips video! lol
Good content guys. No music, just trail chatter and tidbits of humor. It just doesn’t get any better than Pisgah. I just rode all of Black,Avery,Bennett and the other shorter trails like upper and lower Sycamore. All are amazing, except that crazy hike-a-bike on upper black. Which are your favorites? What hotel did y’all stay at? That breakfast looked great. Keep up the good work and yes you were robbed on those wings!
Thanks, really appreciate it! We like staying at that Davidson River Campground when we can find any availability. All the primitive campsites are nice and secluded and the bathhouses aren’t bad at all (for a campground). We’ve stayed at the Hampton Inn up the road but it’s nice being to ride your bike right off the campsite to the trailhead!
Hi. Loved your video. I'm going to be in NC and want to ride this trail; can you tell me what's the most technical feature on this trail and how fast you're going down?
Thanks! Glad you like the video. You can get by any feature on this trail by foot if you’re not comfortable riding it, nothing is mandatory. (We had to get off our bikes a couple times.) Hopefully this answers your question. We enjoyed just doing the bottom half of black mtn, where Turkey Creek rd connects to it!
I just rode Black Mountain from the top of Clawhammer 2 days ago. We kept saying on the hike a bike, "Not much farther. All we see is sky all around us." Yet there was STILL more hike a bike to go!! 🤣
Yep that’s rt. 33, we are from SE Ohio! It’s about a 7-8 hour drive to get down to Brevard NC. Also we feel your pain on that hike a bike section of Black Mtn. It’s pretty brutal, especially after spinning all the way up clawhammer!
Strava has our “moving time” at 4.5 hours but with breaks I’m sure it was at least 5-6 hours? It was alot for us, but luckily we had plenty of food/water 😅
I saw you said 4.5 moving time. Thats insane! How many miles was this ride? Its a great video and yall had me laughing the entire time. I just hit Bennett Gap today and it was freaking awesone! I parked at the stables and rode up Avery Creek Road and thought I might die before reaching Bennett. It wasnt bad till near the top but I made it. I ate some food and relaxed for a bit then blasted down! First time riding in North Carolina. I recently bought an ebike and also live on the Gulf coast near Pensacola florida. Not too many mountains down there😂 Anyway, I am going to check out some more videos when I get some time to do so. Loved this one! Refreshing and pure…. Thanks! Oh, Kanuga tomorrow mofo kers!!
Haha thanks man! Really appreciate your comment!! That ride was about 23-24 miles and turned into a real suffer fest at the end. Still so much fun though, there’s nothing like Pisgah right?! Kanuga is on our to-do list! I’ve heard alot of good about that place. Rip it dude and be safe out there!!
It’s funny that after finding that beer koozie in Pisgah we started noticing their stickers/logo all over the east coast! I will have to tune in sometime 👍
@@clickoutdoors they are on Spotify side RUclips. I actually heard their podcast on the way down from NC to Florida on Friday. Listened to about 7 of them (45 minutes a listen). It's cool cause they topic new trail opening up, interview locals from around the area who contribute with Mount biking in the area, conservation, the history of bike trails, and many other. I loved em. But maybe cause I now live in Brevard at the entrance of Pisgah Ranger District.
Holy shit! You can just walk out your door and access that entire amazing trail system. Your a lucky guy lol. We are gonna be back to ride/stay at Davidson Campground at the end of May. I might save this podcast for our drive down from Ohio. (It’s about 7-8hrs)
Fun, honest video. Thanks! At 65 years, my days of attempting some of those rock and drop features are behind me but I still find lots of good riding in Pisgah and DuPont, also Occoee? At GA border.
Thanks really appreciate it! We have not ridden Occoee yet but I’ve heard good things about it!
Nice to see the new stuff, I'll be down there in a couple weeks!
Thanks! New stuff is smooth and flowy. Next time we are down there we are going to ride from Turkey Creek Rd to Clawhammer. Plenty of chunky goodness there!
I had to subscribe bc I like how you keep it real w/ the hike a bike, lol, and that podcast you were joking about actually ended up being helpful, since I live close to Pisgah. Also, appreciate the dark humor. Sucks abt the food. I don’t usually make comments or subscribe. But this shit made me laugh.
Thanks man! Really appreciate the nice comment. You’re lucky to live close to such a beautiful area!
I wish they would open some of the trails in the GSMNP to bikes. Like Cooper road trail and Rabbit Creek. Hell they let horses go through there why not some bike traffic. Great video man. Nice to see some different areas like that.
Im not familiar with “GSMNP”? Pisgah is such an amazing place for mountain biking! I haven’t found anywhere else on the east coast that compares to it! Thanks brother 🙏
@@clickoutdoors Great Smoky Mountain National Park in TN.
That hike a bike is brutal. I was toast after that.
100% I should have packed two lunches… 😅
4:55 the old sections weren’t really fun tech in my opinion. Mostly erosion paths and water bar drops into more erosion. There’s still plenty of gnarly natural tech on other trails in Pisgah, but with better erosion control on most of it. The rebuilt section is vastly more fun now
Best full black run on RUclips!
Thanks man! Appreciate it!
Shouldn't a full black video include the interminable hikeabike over upper black (in local parlance the reroute is called middle and lower black)? I've done it a couple times (2x too many), and want to show my wife what she's missing.
@@alexkirby5553 I don't see anything missing
@@BrandonLittle Fair, you can't include everything obv, and you did include much of the un-ridable portions of Upper Black. I hiked it this past Wednesday as part of PSR and I was looking for some of the more ridiculous rock features you had to climb up and around. So crazy. Nice video. Thanks.
@@alexkirby5553 I think I remember the suffer-fest section you are referring to? Sometimes when I'm just climbing in complete pain and agony I tend to forget I'm trying to capture footage for a RUclips video! lol
Good content guys. No music, just trail chatter and tidbits of humor. It just doesn’t get any better than Pisgah. I just rode all of Black,Avery,Bennett and the other shorter trails like upper and lower Sycamore. All are amazing, except that crazy hike-a-bike on upper black. Which are your favorites? What hotel did y’all stay at? That breakfast looked great. Keep up the good work and yes you were robbed on those wings!
Thanks, really appreciate it! We like staying at that Davidson River Campground when we can find any availability. All the primitive campsites are nice and secluded and the bathhouses aren’t bad at all (for a campground). We’ve stayed at the Hampton Inn up the road but it’s nice being to ride your bike right off the campsite to the trailhead!
Also the end of Black Mountain south of Turkey “something” road I believe is amazing! It starts following that creek and gets super flowy!
@@clickoutdoors cool. I’ll check that one out too! I plan on going again this weekend. Yeah that Davidson Campground is a perfect location.
Hi. Loved your video. I'm going to be in NC and want to ride this trail; can you tell me what's the most technical feature on this trail and how fast you're going down?
Thanks! Glad you like the video. You can get by any feature on this trail by foot if you’re not comfortable riding it, nothing is mandatory. (We had to get off our bikes a couple times.) Hopefully this answers your question. We enjoyed just doing the bottom half of black mtn, where Turkey Creek rd connects to it!
What hotel did y’all stay at that allowed y’all to bring the bikes in?
I just rode Black Mountain from the top of Clawhammer 2 days ago. We kept saying on the hike a bike, "Not much farther. All we see is sky all around us." Yet there was STILL more hike a bike to go!! 🤣
Yep that’s rt. 33, we are from SE Ohio! It’s about a 7-8 hour drive to get down to Brevard NC. Also we feel your pain on that hike a bike section of Black Mtn. It’s pretty brutal, especially after spinning all the way up clawhammer!
@@clickoutdoors Small world! I grew up in Bremen, which is near Lancaster. I graduated from Ohio U.
Have you ridden the Bailey trails in Chauncey yet?
That’s a LOT of climbing.
It hurt…..
The blue bridge at the video start?? Is that at the Ravenswood exit? That bridge always says I'm 2 hours from my parents house. 😁
What bikes are those that you are riding ? How much travel ?
Awesome video btw 🤘
Thanks! The blue bike is a Stumpjumper with 150mm front/rear and my brother’s bike is a YT Jeffsy 150 rear and 160 front.
What a savage climb! $40 for those wings was almost as painful as the climb lmao.
You have a really good point there! 🤣
That 2 mile hike-a-bike at the top of Black MTN hurts don't it? lol.
Hurts so good! (not really though lol) Next time we’re out there we want to try and come down that way, without dying!
Parts of it looks more like Brazil than NC.
About how long did this ride take ya?
Strava has our “moving time” at 4.5 hours but with breaks I’m sure it was at least 5-6 hours? It was alot for us, but luckily we had plenty of food/water 😅
I saw you said 4.5 moving time. Thats insane! How many miles was this ride? Its a great video and yall had me laughing the entire time.
I just hit Bennett Gap today and it was freaking awesone! I parked at the stables and rode up Avery Creek Road and thought I might die before reaching Bennett. It wasnt bad till near the top but I made it. I ate some food and relaxed for a bit then blasted down! First time riding in North Carolina. I recently bought an ebike and also live on the Gulf coast near Pensacola florida. Not too many mountains down there😂
Anyway, I am going to check out some more videos when I get some time to do so. Loved this one! Refreshing and pure…. Thanks!
Oh, Kanuga tomorrow mofo kers!!
Haha thanks man! Really appreciate your comment!! That ride was about 23-24 miles and turned into a real suffer fest at the end. Still so much fun though, there’s nothing like Pisgah right?!
Kanuga is on our to-do list! I’ve heard alot of good about that place. Rip it dude and be safe out there!!
Pisgah podcast is the shit. Go have a listen.
It’s funny that after finding that beer koozie in Pisgah we started noticing their stickers/logo all over the east coast! I will have to tune in sometime 👍
@@clickoutdoors they are on Spotify side RUclips. I actually heard their podcast on the way down from NC to Florida on Friday. Listened to about 7 of them (45 minutes a listen). It's cool cause they topic new trail opening up, interview locals from around the area who contribute with Mount biking in the area, conservation, the history of bike trails, and many other. I loved em. But maybe cause I now live in Brevard at the entrance of Pisgah Ranger District.
Holy shit! You can just walk out your door and access that entire amazing trail system. Your a lucky guy lol. We are gonna be back to ride/stay at Davidson Campground at the end of May. I might save this podcast for our drive down from Ohio. (It’s about 7-8hrs)
No Bear 🐻 bells needed for this one huh ? 👍
We normally just keep some human seasoning with us (bear spray) 😅
Dont forget your wallet LOL