I’ve been watching a lot of the MUni vids recently, and seen some pretty death-defying ridding, but what about cycling the worlds most dangerous road? I think this has now made my “things to do before I die” list. Of course, everything on the list should be something that could be on the “may get me killed but I wanna do it anyway” list.
Sure that road would be dangerous on a bike because you can freewheel and build up a lot of speed, but I’d predict it would be dull on a unicycle. Dull in terms of danger anyways. Since its a road that trucks can drive up then the gradient wouldn’t be anything to get excited about.
Yer, the tram and lines could make things a little more interesting.
As for the dangerous road, in some places, there is hardly enough room for the lorries by themselves, yet they try pushing past the cyclists. Imagine that on a unicycle?!
Plus, if you still think it isn’t enough, then put a slip wheel on, with a brake, and have your fun
I think it won’t be that dangerous apart from trucks and cyclist bombing the trail… but anyway it would be exciting to ride with such cliffs and views.
And I think it would be really impressive to all of the cyclists out there
It’s wide enough and smooth enough for a bus. It drops 3600 meters over 64 km (average grade 5.6%) How bad could it really be? It’s long and it probably has some amazing views, but I can’t imagine it being a really extreme descent on a unicycle.
I think what attracts people to that road (apart from the scenery obviously) is not that it’s hard to ride, but the risk factor of falling over the edge if you crash. It’ll attract the sort of people who like taking pictures of themselves standing (or stillstanding) on the edge of cliffs (of whom there are quite a few on this forum). Not for me though - cliffs freak me out, I’d be crawling along the inside edge of the road against the wall hoping nobody came the other way :o
I’m guessing you have never been on buses in some third world countries. Granted, this isn’t a third-world country, but the road is no better than roads in third-world countries.