Most dangerous roads in the world?

[thehollowmen]

http://www.dirjournal.com/info/most-dangerous-roads-in-the-world/ lists our own "Skipper's Canyon" as one of the most dangerous roads in the world.

I'd never heard of it. Nice scenery though, but I thought state highway one might have made it on the list.

Any of you adventure bikers been down it?

[Maha]

It was on TV the other weekend....stock trucks wont use it and rentals are not allowed on it either.

[Switch]

I'd love to travel on some of those roads, the scenery looks spectacular :D

[Blatman]

I get vertigo looking at them, butthole is going 5c.....50c....5c....50c....

[jonbuoy]

Yeah its stunning mate, I hired a DR in Queenstown. Well worth the effort to go see it.

[Dave Lobster]

They're not wrong about the Croatia coastal road. From Split to Dubrovnic, it's twisty as fuck.. with big drop offs that you wouldn't wake up from. The only place I had my Land Rover overtaken by a (full) bus. The locals have no brains at all.

[tigertim20]

not so many years ago the road that goes over from Queenstown to Wanaka (the Crown Range) used to be REALLY bad. Rental cars were not allowed to go on it (said the rental company, but people did anyway) and insurance companies wouldnt insure you if you had a mishap on it. Its better now that its sealed and all. Its a good road, so is the devils staircase!

[Headbanger]

If I won Lotto I'd ride/drive all those roads. well apart from the Pakistan ones, Fuck Pakistan.

More of them here, Check out the chinks and their army trucks.some crazy NZ shit as well.



http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/12/worlds-most-dangerous-roads-part-5.html

[FJRider]

This is the road in the Skippers Canyon... does it really look that dangerous... ??? :innocent:

[smoky]

I've done 2 of the others plus a large chunk of the Pan American, Skippers Canyon is not all that bad, don't know how it got on the list
Grimsel Pass in the Swiss Alps was a piece of piss too, awesome views

[Laxi]

don't have a prob with the road at skippers, getting arround the big ass tour busses however:shit:

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[DIN PELENDA]

They're not wrong about the Croatia coastal road. From Split to Dubrovnic, it's twisty as fuck.. with big drop offs that you wouldn't wake up from. The only place I had my Land Rover overtaken by a (full) bus. The locals have no brains at all.

I have to agree with you on that one, even that I was local:weird:, before moving to NZ . In ex Yugoslavian army I was truck driver and I flip truck with 12 solders on those roads between Split and Dubrovnik. No casualties just scrapes and broken bones.

[LBD]

Some pretty impressive roads there...The attached does not show the road well but it is part of the old silk road that runs between Barskoon/Volna and Kara Say. While technically a public road, it is maintained by the mining company. It climbs from 1600 m at the lake to 3800 m at the pass. Then to 4000 at the mine. 47 switch backs, 5 000 000L diesel, 160 000l oil, (tonnes of cyanide) per month, and thousands of tonnes of mining equipment per year travel up the road.

Subject to wash outs, snow avalanches, ice, wandereing stock and Kyrgyz drivers, place this road up with the worst. We dont lose many because every driver knows the risks...

I travel up this road one week and down the next....as I have done the last 3 years.

Have some better pics at site I will post...

[James Deuce]

Anywhere near any KB group ride.

[jono035]

The Guoliang tunnel in China is pretty breathtaking.

[Jantar]

What makes Skipper's so dangerous is that is too narrow. There isn't enough room for a bus and a car to pass safely. One or the other has to pull right over and stop. Also only short wheel base busses can negotiate the tight bends safely.

If we could stop the busses from using the road then it would be much safer.

[James Deuce]

What makes Skipper's so dangerous is that is too narrow. There isn't enough room for a bus and a car to pass safely. One or the other has to pull right over and stop. Also only short wheel base busses can negotiate the tight bends safely.


There's a series of bends on the Rimutakas like that that are finally getting sorted out.

[GaZBur]

They're not wrong about the Croatia coastal road. From Split to Dubrovnic, it's twisty as fuck.. with big drop offs that you wouldn't wake up from. The only place I had my Land Rover overtaken by a (full) bus. The locals have no brains at all.
Hell yeah I agree. Was there when a car chocked full of locals went over a cliff. Each corner you can look down and see shiny new wrecks on top of older wrecks on top of even older wrecks on top of WW2 tanks etc, probablly find old carts and horse bones under them too. I driven lots of places in the world and I race bikes and its hard to scare me - but that road was the only place I was truely scared for my life just by driving.

[CookMySock]

The Guoliang tunnel in China is pretty breathtaking.Farrrrrrrrrken arrrrrrrrrrrrrse thats mad. What a story behind it though.

Steve

[SMOKEU]

Anywhere near any KB group ride.

I'd have to agree with that.

[jono035]

Farrrrrrrrrken arrrrrrrrrrrrrse thats mad. What a story behind it though.

Steve

Yeah, that's for sure. 5 years in the making, all done by hand... Wow.

[cheshirecat]

The Arc d'Triumph is reasonably interesting two wheels or four. There was a time insurance companies didn't insure there.
Next the Severn Bridge in a crosswind gale,

[Badjelly]

I rode the North Yungas Rd, Bolivia--the first on the list--in January 2008 on a mountain bike. Faaark! There's a group photo showing 5 blokes standing with their bikes looking over the edge of a 500 m drop and one (me) standing on the other side of the road next to the bank. ("Look guys, I know there's a 500 m drop there, I don't have to torture myself by looking at it.") I was a bit worried sheer terror would cause me to freeze up and go off the road, but I survived and really enjoyed it.