Anyone know where this is?
Edit: Found it! It’s Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.
This is so strange. I have almost been there… on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there…
What did you do there?
Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.
Sounds like a nice trip!
I took a bus from Mendoza to Santiago that went down this road. Was pretty crazy at the time but still way less sketchy than the buses going through Bolivia.
I was just going to post the same thing. I took the same bus route and man that was scary at some points looking out the window, over the edge.
lots of serpentine roads like that in South America’s Andes, we even have a train that moves back and forth as it sigsags up the mountain
Yep, took one like that going to a ski station in Chile, was mega sick when I arrived
Los Caracoles?
It’s Spanish for “The Caracoles”.
it looks at Lombard St. in SF
“Pathetic”
Honestly that is probably less dangerous than the regular streets of SF. Never felt more like I was about to die in a cab than I did riding in SF. Dude seemed to know what he was doing but it felt like a roller coaster.
Now imagine the actual Steve McQueen driving at top Mustang speed up and down those streets in Bullitt. Absolute legend.
Do you guys think it would be a good idea if more US residential streets were made into this?
even better would be making it a sheer cliff with an elevator and a staircase.
I want to coast down that in neutral so bad.
Coast down it in first so you don’t fade your brakes to uselessness (even automatics have a first-second for engine braking downhill like this).
Not mine. I think it has automatic engine braking or something since I don’t drift downhill as soon as I let off the brake though.
That’s beautiful!
I thought it’s only exist in GTA San Andreas, but it’s real now
And Midtown Madness 2
Might’ve even been real a few decades before San Andreas 😉
That’s a fun discovery!
That parking space for the white car in the first photo looks like it sucks.
Surprised it’s still the whole car and not just the front.
I wonder if that is actually an allowed space.
Agreed.
I’m feeling anxiety just imagining backing out of that.
That car parked in that not really a parking spot is just asking to have their bumper ripped off.
I guess SF lied when they said Lombard was the crookedest street in the world. The one from the meme is clearly more crooked. Also, when was that picture taken? There’s usually a huge line of tourist cars driving down that street. I’ve never seen it with only 2 cars.
I thought they blocked it to only local traffic after residents complained?
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Deja Vu, I’ve seen this comment before.
(Higher in the thread)🎵
And I know it’s my time to go
GAS! GAS! GAS!
I’m gonna step on the gas
That was not the song that came to mind for me.
This road was so much fun I rode up it twice in 2012. You can see this section starting at 1m30sec. https://youtu.be/za0mQFl-4jI?si=rYq6qbP8caSD_bIQ
You really should think about not crossing over into the opposite lane, especially on blind turns on a switchback.
None of it was blind. You can see through every one. Also, the camera didn’t have the contrast ability to show that I could see deep into the tunnel. Why do to think the corners were blind? Did you see some trees or berms that werent there?
Yeeeeeehaw!
Road bike line vs downhill mtb line.
I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.
Just don’t use it! 😁
Speed shifting ftw!
Eurobeat intensifies
rip to your transmission
I never use my clutch and I usually get 10,000 miles to the transmission.
Put it in second and keep it there.
China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km
🤢 That sounds amazingly nauseating.
Poor humans
Make it straight, and put a ramp on the bottom for epic jumps.
Weeeeeeeeeeee
No guardrail that I can see.
Street view confirms no guardrail
So OP motivated enough they could do exactly as it’s drawn
So you can take the straight path if you choose!
You only need one lane going up, and a jump off ramp at the top
Unedited photo: how to make Jeremy Clarkson have an aneurysm from orgasming too hard.
Edited photo: how to make Jeremy Clarkson have a rage aneurysm.
Edited photo: how to kill Richard Hammond.
He’s an ass. I’ve still never forgiven them for their Mexico special
True, he is and that was awful.
Never watched specifically because he gave me douchebag vibes from the start, what was so bad about the Mexico special?
Severe racism including calling Mexicans
“lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf(s)”, and described in detail how horrible it must be to be [wake] up and [remember] you’re Mexican"
Straight from their own Fandom wiki https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Mexican_Comments_Controversy
Swiss would drill a tunnel.
So they’d make it a holey site?
I’m sensing a pattern with the swiss. 👀
They are themselves a hole in the EU
Darn, i had the same idea 😂
How that proposal looks in winterOoh, now I want to see sb drive up that
