Steepest stree tin the world

**gurglechunks** · 05-10-2007 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by RobotKid

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.

60 degrees?

you would fall down

**large goat** · 05-10-2007 08:29 PM

i think he means 60 milhes per hour

**Ky Boy** · 05-10-2007 09:51 PM

I've rode a paved road on a luge before that was about as steep as the NZ one and it was the toughest road that I have ever ridden. It was only a half mile but under full braking I was still cruising about 10-15 mph and at the end I had to go under a cable and run off into the grass to stop. If only there wasn't a 90* turn at the bottom it would be awesome to break a world record at since I estimate luge speed would be 110+ mph.

**HerBDerb** · 05-10-2007 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by pyrate

I'd imagine that when you hit that sudden drop, you'd be airborne throughout the rest of the run.

**Zatchmo** · 05-10-2007 10:35 PM

I actually walked up Baldwin St while in Dunedin a few years ago - no way in hell would I skate down it.

**large goat** · 05-10-2007 10:39 PM

Id slide down that, it seems like any road no matter how steep can be ridden down safely if you just slide. Once you get going fast, just keep pulling pendys to control your speed.

**wakeup** · 05-10-2007 11:06 PM

It would be interesting to have a competition as to who could destroy either the most or the least of their wheel while sliding down it. Would be awesome to see someone pull a layback down the whole thing.

**funkyphreakout** · 05-10-2007 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by large goat

Id slide down that, it seems like any road no matter how steep can be ridden down safely if you just slide. Once you get going fast, just keep pulling pendys to control your speed.

I don't know, that one looks like one of those "accelerate as you slide" kind of hills.

And yeah, I think that hump would result in the kind of airtime that would be like those dreams you have when you're young and gravity reverses and you plummet away from the earth in this horrible vertigo inducing lurch.

(Maybe I'm the only one who had dreams like that.)

**Brian Holden** · 05-10-2007 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by wakeup

Would be awesome to see someone pull a layback down the whole thing.

Sounds like a sweet Sergio Yuppie / Gravity Ad

**carve&slide007** · 05-13-2007 08:39 AM

True. It'd be steep. but look at all those cracks in the road. definitely not fun to ride down. I'd take an average steep hill with awsome pavement over that any day.

**Ogre** · 05-13-2007 08:55 AM

In my opinion..skating that, would be a very long and fast "controlled fall"

**longboardorific** · 05-13-2007 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by WillJ

but, i'd be willing to put alot of money on the steepest street being in TJ(tijuana, mehico). rode some that were concrete with 1" ridges in it so cars could actually grip it. scary to slide down, even more scary to drive down......

a ton of hills in mexico have that grip. its supposed to act like speed bumps.

**Crappysurfer** · 05-13-2007 12:50 PM

those hills would not be pleasant to skate down

**Basch** · 05-13-2007 01:14 PM

Damn, I skated a 22% one way one lane road a while back and thought THAT was scarry. But this is just awfull.

But seriously, I want to see someone slide down it

**jessicacorchia** · 05-13-2007 02:02 PM

ah sliding through rohan. that looks like fuuuun

**nocturnal.nz** · 05-13-2007 08:34 PM

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.

this street is nuts!

i've visited dunedin a few times and have always wanted to give it a go...

until i heard about a bunch of university students who died on it.

sliding downhill in wheely bins (trash cans)... losing control... crashing... ouch... pain...

but of course a skateboard would be much safer.

anyway - its a perfect reason for you guys to come to new zealand for a bit, there's a severe shortage of kiwi skaters about!

**Metallic Scribbler** · 05-13-2007 09:31 PM

Fair play that monster is well steep. dont think i woul skate and or slide down it. Would just get a motobike and tow into the bottom of it and use it as a giant bank! now that would be fun. See who can slide the furthest up it!......just to be different.

**isahackjob** · 05-13-2007 09:56 PM

ide get in a roled up matrass, and roll down that thing.

be so fun/reatarded.

if u used a wrestling mat, rolled up and all, you could fit like 10 peole in it!!

**nocturnal.nz** · 05-13-2007 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by isahackjob

ide get in a roled up matrass, and roll down that thing.

be so fun/reatarded.

if u used a wrestling mat, rolled up and all, you could fit like 10 peole in it!!

i'd make sure i picked 9 very beautiful people to go in the matress with me - you'd get mighty cosy/squashed with whoever was in there with you, so you'd want to pick carefully!

**melifont monk** · 05-14-2007 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by large goat

Id slide down that, it seems like any road no matter how steep can be ridden down safely if you just slide. Once you get going fast, just keep pulling pendys to control your speed.

thats a pretty big call until you've done it....

i mean, LOOK AT THAT MONSTER!

CRACKS in the road....no where to go...driveways, people, dogs...cars...not a fun spot; it'd be a run you would do just to get the rep for having done it in my opinion...i don't think you could get stoked on that hill....too too much...