Death road...

[Gooby]

Am I nuts?
This looks great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUaherTC50

[RacingPete]

That looks awesome... I'm in, when are we organising a trip!

[croyde]

The video next to it has an awful accident on that road at 5 mins in. Lorry is stuck and guy gets into it to move it and it goes over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3VfV6UVJs

[Chris71]

croyde said:

The video next to it has an awful accident on that road at 5 mins in. Lorry is stuck and guy gets into it to move it and it goes over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3VfV6UVJs

Yep, based on that and Top Gear's recent trip I'm fairly sure I'd rather do it on a 2ft wide mountain bike than an 8ft wide truck.

[zapbrannigan]

Gooby said:

Am I nuts?
This looks great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUaherTC50

Excellent - I'm there!

[shakotan]

croyde said:

The video next to it has an awful accident on that road at 5 mins in. Lorry is stuck and guy gets into it to move it and it goes over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3VfV6UVJs

The 30 secs or so of images before the accident - showing a road cut into/through the rock - are not the same road, that one is in China.

[mickymellon]

I've done that in a group of about 10 people and was 1st down - great fun

In hindsight, 2 people died the previous fortnight and the bike sliding on slippery corners could have ment certain death (still good fun)

[Mandog]

Would it help to grow a beard like the guide has?

[B52er]

Yeah, I did it a couple of years ago in a group... pretty nuts doing 64k of continuous downhill starting at about 4900m altitude, quite short on oxygen and pretty cold, finishing at around 1000m in a hot and humid jungle!

Defo worth doing if you are over there but if you are expecting a fast white knuckle decent you might be disappointed.... Whilst it seems pretty dangerous i found it quite sanitised, The companies doing it understandably like to keep a good safety record!!

Saying that taking a corner close to the edge and looking straight down over a 400m vertical cliff, riding through waterfalls and some amazing scenery do make up for it.