Playground in the wop wops

[T.W.R]

My uncle snapped these pics on a recent trip overseas, dunno if it was to rub salt in to the wounds :Pokey: this just one small section of the road too :shit:

But :drool: wouldn't it be nice to spend a bit of time playing here :yes: just the big mobile chicanes would be a nuisance :whistle:

[NDORFN]

I could spend days there, just on that one piece of road, going up and down...

[MIXONE]

It would be a slow crawl up there in some of those rigs.
Whereabouts is that great looking piece of race track?

[T.W.R]

Its 'Paso Los Libertadores' the main alpine pass between Chile and Argentina and reaches a height of 3200m at the summit.
That section is 1st gear for trucks & buses and regularly gets snowed under :pinch:

[Laxi]

I know I,ve seen that road in a movie before, might be a bond film cant remember

[aer0]

didnt the top gear boys go there?

[R6_kid]

Would probably be fun the first two times, after that it'd just get boring.

You need roads with a variety of corners, which require different speeds/lean/braking etc to keep it interesting.

[Jizah]

didnt the top gear boys go there?

Pretty sure that's where I've seen it too.

[MIXONE]

Would probably be fun the first two times, after that it'd just get boring.

You need roads with a variety of corners, which require different speeds/lean/braking etc to keep it interesting.

You must find racing on a track boring then!

[Skyryder]

That lake looks like good fishing water:2thumbsup..............there's even a run off into it.


Skyryder

[Mooch]

My uncle snapped these pics on a recent trip overseas, dunno if it was to rub salt in to the wounds :Pokey: this just one small section of the road too :shit:

But :drool: wouldn't it be nice to spend a bit of time playing here :yes: just the big mobile chicanes would be a nuisance :whistle:

With a truck every 30 seconds on average it takes the fun out of this road. Mind you the old Argentina / Chile road at the back of Santago was fun , same sort of thing, without the trucks and on gravel. 3850 meter sumit.

[Gremlin]

Would probably be fun the first two times, after that it'd just get boring.

You need roads with a variety of corners, which require different speeds/lean/braking etc to keep it interesting.
I'm with him... a few hairpins separated by straights? :yawn: Give me waihi to whangamata any day...

Yes... I find tracks boring too :yes:

[Mystic13]

It looks real familiar to me too. Like one I saw in a motorcycle mag recently. After a quick look I found it in Motorcycle Trader, Feb 09, page 23 and 24 is where I saw it. Looks similar but actually different roads.

Feb and March had the Ken McIntosh story. I'd pulled it out in the last couple of weeks to take another look.

[spacemonkey]

There's a heap of roads like that up in the European Alps..... Man I had a blast riding up there. :Punk:


(beer was pretty good too!):yes:

[R6_kid]

You must find racing on a track boring then!

Tracks have variation - sweepers, chicanes, hair pins, etc etc... like Gremlin said, that road is just hairpins separated by straights.