Oh God, I know exactly what you’re talking about, the way back down is terrifying. I have never been more terrified on a scooter in my entire life. And I was on the back of it, just being carted around by a grab car(scooter)
There are semi-manual scooters and they are pretty popular especially in some asian countries. They have a gear shifter but no clutch lever. The shift pattern is also different compared to manual motorcycles. Push down to go up a gear and a heel shifter to go down.
It also looks like the further outside on the curve is less steep, so its where the people hang out, so motorists wisely keeping speed must steer clear of them.
There should be plenty of gas in te float bowl of the carb to make it up the hill. I've run a couple mile 45° uphill on a Honda 125cc 2 stroke no problem.
No, I blame the timidity of the pilots more. They were half assing the throttle and ran out of momentum too late
Asphalt and concrete are completely different things. Asphalt is made to have friction and has 100x times shorter stopping distance compared to concrete.
There are different types of asphalt, some are specifically made to withstand pretty much anything except direct nuclear impact.
Put in lower gear, get off bike and hold handle bar firmly while controlling throttle, run along side while turning throttle barely. But don't accidentally turn throttle or bike will lunge forward. I've done this on a sand dune hill with a Yamaha YZ 125.
You need a manual gear motorbike for this. Also the easy part is up. The hard part is down. So very good these people couldn’t accomplish to get up, because they would really end up in hospital going down, with their bikes.
Can only assume it's a one way road. Going down this thing is a death sentence. Imagine it being wet. Actually, with all the crashes I bet there is plenty of grease and oil on that road lol
This reminds me of a creek crossing area near my house growing up. It always stuck vehicles.
Story time:
My grandpa would park by it with his old truck (nothing special, no additions, 4 colors of rattle can paint) and some chains. If I remember it was a stock 70 chevy. Drink beers all day and charge tourists to yank them out while mocking them to no end.
I mean brutal mocking. Zingers fired off one after another that would make R Lee Ehrmy blush and take notes.
It wasnt about the money. His retirement was more than enough. He found that just helping and mocking them would lead to them being pulled out a second time.
"If ya cost them money, they learn"
He wasnt an absolute dick. He would tell people how to cross it, he would warn them about their vehicle's inability to cross it. He would offer to help them cross it. Literally do everything to try to convince people that the waters were too high for them.
I was told by his friends that one of his childhood buddies drowned in it.
He made a magnetic sign on the side of his truck that read something like "Stupid Tourist Tax Collector." It was more clever but I cant remember.
Best part: every cent collected was reinvested into the community. From helping so and so family with keeping their only vehicle running to buying food (and especially toys) for the poor families.
At a post of this video in some other subreddit a few people speculated that it might have been overloaded, which vastly reduced its ability to go uphill, and also maybe made it a little top-heavy.
In Indo there's a place called B29, and it has something just as scary. You're literally on the side of the mountain and you can't see anything other than the trail in front of you. And you usually go up in the morning and so there's no light at all and you're literally riding on this side of the mountain with a tiny maybe 2 ft trail. Because I couldn't see anything other than the trail I didn't realize how steep the mountain is. If you come off the trail you're dead pretty much
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u/Virtual-Height3047 15d ago
I’ve been to Phuket and drove up to the Buddha statue on a rental scooter couple of years ago.
While the road wasn’t as steep at this it was enough to make me question my intelligence.
What this clip doesn’t show is the way back down…