Steepest stree tin the world

**Jemwielder** · 05-09-2007 04:19 PM

Damn.... I really want to ride that. Helmet and full pads without question though.

**Arbor11** · 05-09-2007 06:51 PM

wow that hill is hugeeee!

**Dash** · 05-09-2007 06:54 PM

Now think of what its like when it rains.

**Dizi** · 05-09-2007 06:56 PM

Haha.. Been to Fargo Street when I lived near there. I seriously would not wanna watch someone attempt to skate it.

I didn't even want to walk it.

**Vic** · 05-09-2007 07:08 PM

When I read about a steep street in LA, I was thinking of the hills around silver lake. Sure enough Fargo St is there. Those hills around the resevoir are insane.

**Brian Holden** · 05-09-2007 07:11 PM

I am definitely going to slide the 2nd steepest hill in world in San Fransico...who is with me!

**Arbor11** · 05-09-2007 07:38 PM

im down!!!

**Brian Holden** · 05-09-2007 07:58 PM

Yea, I really think there needs to be a HUGE slidecomp held in the middle of San Fransisco, 33% grade hill, tons of specators, great weather, what else could you ask for?

**Daniel M.** · 05-09-2007 08:31 PM

i wanna make a suit of UHMW, put on a helmet, and throw myself down a hill like that in a full body slide

**RobotKid** · 05-09-2007 08:39 PM

I don't got a pic, but the steepest hill ever is definitely in my hometown. It's easily in the 60s, but it's not paved and I doubt anyone will ever pave it. It's mainly just used for hill training for cross country, it's the most painful run ever.

**NBtodd** · 05-09-2007 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by msk

A few miles from my house, in L.A. is Fargo Street, which is a 33% grade. Every year the LA Wheelmen put on an event there, the Fargo Street Hillclimb:.

Looks to be just about as steep as Baldwin St.

Fargo St also has the ridges for traction. I've heard stories that the USPS vehicles can't make it up the street...

I can see that street from my apt. as I write this.

**wakeup** · 05-09-2007 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Cpt Planet18

I am definitely going to slide the 2nd steepest hill in world in San Fransico...who is with me!

Its also the least straight road in the world. I guess you could drift the whole thing.

**nicotine** · 05-09-2007 09:19 PM

In 2001 a 19-year-old University of Otago student was killed when she and another student attempted to travel down the street inside a wheeled rubbish bin. The bin collided with a parked trailer, killing one of the occupants instantly, and causing serious head injuries for the second.

Who in their right mind would do that?

**revelation2** · 05-09-2007 09:58 PM

Funny...my sister lives in Dunedin, she works at a hostel there.

**wakeup** · 05-09-2007 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by nicotine

Who in their right mind would do that?

Not many people would, but they were drunk, so they weren't in their right mind.

**msk** · 05-09-2007 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Cpt Planet18

I am definitely going to slide the 2nd steepest hill in world in San Fransico...who is with me!

According to SF's Bureau of Engineering, nothing there would qualify as "2nd steepest hill in world":

Here, according to the city Bureau of Engineering, are the steepest of the steep in descending order:

1. & 2. Filbert between Leavenworth and Hyde; 22nd Street between Church and Vicksburg, both 31.5 percent gradient.
3. Jones between Union and Filbert, 29 percent.
4. Duboce between Buena Vista and Alpine, 27.9 percent.
5. & 6. Jones between Green and Union; Webster between Vallejo and Broadway, both 26 percent.
7. & 8. Duboce between Divisadero and Alpine; Duboce between Castro and Divisadero, both 25 percent.
9. Jones between Pine and California, 24.8 percent.
10. Fillmore between Vallejo and Broadway, 24 percent.

There are 3 streets in Los Angeles area that are steeper (33%), and I believe there's one in San Pedro that's even steeper than that...

**Steve D.** · 05-09-2007 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by msk

According to SF's Bureau of Engineering, nothing there would qualify as "2nd steepest hill in world":

There are 3 streets in Los Angeles area that are steeper (33%), and I believe there's one in San Pedro that's even steeper than that...

24% grade in Fillmore! thats 10 minutes from my house!

**melifont monk** · 05-10-2007 01:16 AM

i still reckon at that point, you should REALLY want to live/skate/walk/drive/ roll/ fall down ANY of those hills!

**oregoncoast** · 05-10-2007 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by pyrate

Baldwin St. in Dunedin, New Zealand holds the Guiness record
i got these pis and info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street,_Dunedin

so steep that the upper part is surfaced with concrete as tar would run downhill in the sun.

it's record is under challenge from a street in san francisco, which is where i would have thought the steepest street was.

anyway... slide hill pr0n.

i would freebord the life out of that beast, and if any of you knew what was best you would freebord down it too, you can skate anything, ive hit #### that gnar, not that long bet definatly as gnarly