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What's the curviest road you can find on google maps?

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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 02:01 PM
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What's the curviest road you can find on google maps?

I JUST found this road in Finland surfing around on google, and I dare you to find a curvier one.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...3302&z=15&om=1
 
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 02:28 PM
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Couldn't find it on google maps, but I dare say the section of road in Custer State Park in South Dakota where the pigtail bridges might be a nominee.
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 09:06 AM
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Crazy - switchback in a tunnel??
 
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 10:32 AM
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man.... would love to drive that road
 
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 11:36 AM
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Hmmm... does it average over 28 turns per mile... for 11 miles straight?
 
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 02:53 PM
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I believe these are pictures of that road
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/200...ds-part-2.html

the ones at the bottom of the page
 

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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 03:58 PM
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Ah yes, the Stelvio pass... anotehr road i need to go on before I die.
 
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 03:11 AM
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Ok, so it's on google earth, but it works right?

This is just one small area of Japan's many mountain roads.



Every yellow line is a road btw.
 
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 05:52 AM
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I want my driveway to look like one of those roads...
 
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by nabeshin
This is just one small area of Japan's many mountain roads.
Japan's mountain roads are unfrigginbelievable

Owned a motorcycle in Tokyo a couple of years and 40 mins West of the city (Hajioji & Okutuma ?spell?) there were superbly maintained roads that had extra textured surfaces (like sand paper), and mirrors showing the opposing traffic, on the hairier/blinder corners. Also the double yellow widened, sometimes with pylons, on these corners. Best yet was that you never saw a cop and any slower traffic you came up on would simply pull over at the first opportunity!
 
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 07:04 AM
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Mmmmm.... 318 curves in 11.5 miles.....( Mouth watering ) 13 days until our Fall Dragon run...... Twisties are your friend! (But, the THP ain't.)
 
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Edge
Hmmm... does it average over 28 turns per mile... for 11 miles straight?


Give me a constant pace twisty like Deals Gap any day. Perhaps it's just me, but these famous European mountain switchbacks look like nothing more than a bunch of straight-aways connected by 1st gear U-turns. And I doubt anyone would dare push it because an error would result in certain death .

Sure, great sightseeing road.... but NOT a fun drive (IMHO).

Stelvio Pass Italy:
 
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 07:19 AM
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That's where Top Gear went and tested the Auston Martin Vanquish 8 Race car, the Lamborghini Gallardo, and the Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

It's episode 10x1 I believe...they went on a search for the "World's Best Road."

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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 07:42 AM
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yep finding tons all over the world LOL... it's crazy! Of course I am finding the most I am interested in in Italy!
 
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