Worst/ Dangerous roads to ride

[Ladymx]

What are the worst roads or most dangerous roads to ride, and why? Give the name and location of the roads.

[keysman]

I think those Southern California riders could come up with a few Freeways down there that are pretty bad.

[Chick]

There is a road between Santa Maria and Lompoc, Called Harris Grade. Great twisties, but between squids and idiots in their hopped up encon boxes going a lot faster than the road and their skills allow, there are a lot of head on fatals up there. Not a good place for bikes.

[totalmotorcycle]

For those of us in Calgary, I have to say our #1 most dangerous road to ride would be Hwy #2 (Deerfoot).

100km/h limit in the city, 110km/h limit outside the city, but the speed limits only seem like guidelines to the majority of drivers on the Deerfoot. 10-20km over the speed limit is required just to stay with traffic and some drivers are going 30+km/h over.

Also it doesn't help the cagers drive like madmen on the Deerfoot and that the pavement badly needs replacing to boot!

Mike.

[the_first_lonewolf]

Never been there yet but the road up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire is so windy, steep and narrow that they close it to bikes quite often. It holds the record for hardest wind gust on land at 231 mph granted this was back in 1934 .

Lonewolf

[Tarzan]

A272 in Hampshire UK. Always makes me nervous when you see signs up along the road that say "93 casualties in 3 years..."

[mswarrior]

SASKATCHEWAN, I cannot say it any louder. The #1 is bad enough but if you dare trek off it while in Saskatchewan your in for a horrible ride. I've seen pot holes bigger than my bike, and being a farming province I was constantly trying to aviod all the mud and crops they dump on the roads.

[zarakand]

Near Des Plaines suburb of Chicago on Route 58 (extremely busy) in the middle of nowhere is the only roundabout for miles. It's nickname is Suicide Circle. Almost everytime I go past there I see a crash....Don't think I'm ever going to go that route on my bike.

Though I love to encourage my favorite cagers to go that route!

[calif562]

The Long Beach frwy. gets my vote. A zillion trucks make their rounds to the port of Long Beach. It's scary enough in my big Dodge Ram p/u. Pot holes as big as moon craters are everywhere after a good rain. Stay off at all cost. Unless of course, you like the challenge.

[Nibblet99]

A272 in Hampshire UK. Always makes me nervous when you see signs up along the road that say "93 casualties in 3 years..."

Not as bad as the A14 in cambridgeshire, which boast "294 casualties in 2004" (9 times the amount of the A272)

It's a dual carriageway, in a good state of repair, and no blind bends or dodgy junctions. But becuase theres quite a few lorries on it, the cagers get wound up, and drive like psychos.
A lot of the crashes are even people who instead of going straight on, or taking the sliproad off at a junction, don't seem to be able to make their minds up, trying to go through the barrier where they divide

There really is no reason for ANY crashes on that road, but they happen with alarming regularity. Oh well, it gave me enough excuse to avoid it, and take the marvellously twisty backroads that run parallel with it instead