most dangerous path
 

hey what street,intersection, or block do u pass everyday that is dangerous as hell to ride through yet though u still kinda like it?

i concur

Thats a great ride. Although I usually find myself on the other side of the circle.

My route which I've taken to school a few times has been a little rough - you Chicagoans might know what I'm talking about. I take Damen from 87th to 55th (Garfield), then 55th to Halsted, Halsted north to Taylor. That can get a little hairy. I've ridden 71st from the lake to Damen as well, near the lake it was OK, over west not so much. Some kid yelled "Yo! Gimme yo bike!" Obviously I kept going (quickly), without giving him so much as a glance.
Most life threatening ride ever: Taking Ogden from Taylor southwest to Pulaski - I had to get from UIC to 4200 S. Pulaski or thereabouts. Riding to school I always knew I was cutting through a couple not-so-good areas, but that was the first time I was actually quite scared on my bike. It was already dark out, broken glass everywhere, possible crackhoes and unfriendly faces.

i was on damen with my friend when we heard shots
and saw CPD running away.

otherwise anywhere in the 'burbs
jeff

2nd avenue from uptown to Houston
5th avenue from uptown to washington square park

I'm usually on the inside lane of logan circle, trying to get to the outside of BFP.

different type of danger is Haddon ave in Camden after midnight.

6th avenue from 23rd up to rockefeller center

Crossing the bottleneck at Hennepin Avenue at Vineland in Minneapolis. Going towards downtown it isn't so hard to just merge into traffic, but heading out of downtown is another story. The shortest route is through Loring Park. But when you exit the park at Hennepin & Vineland, there's no way to join traffic because there are two lanes of right turning traffic. So you pretty much have to cross at the ped-Xing. On or off the bike, it's just a deathtrap--westbound traffic doesn't look before turning or charging ahead, and eastbound traffic can't see you until they're on top of you because the intersection crosses so many lanes of traffic. All the drivers are in a hurry to get on one of the many nearby freeway entrance ramps. I hate it, but any other route home is very much out of the way.

I would have thought for Gilby it would be the woods of Wisconson.

Godspeed.

oh yeah! that IS dangerously fun.

Eek, that is scary too! The woods during deer hunting season are a place I've always tried to avoid. Especially now.

NYC: houston going east from 6th ave to essex..

i have to do that route all the damn time and with all the construction (what is it - up to 5 projects right now?) it's hellish. three lanes, a ton of gucky tar & asphalt, being driven into the barricades, dirty gutters, past mountains of sand, double-parked vans, cabs cutting me off letting the yupppies from the upper east side onto orchard & ludlow to drink their sorry lives away...

= ICK.

Kapiolani blvd. Anywhere in between Ward ave and McCully. I know most of you don't know where that is, but is a six lane road that passes both entrance streets to waikiki, the ala moana shopping mall (Biggest mall here), a walmart, and Ward (the sceond biggest shopping area thats home to like 200 stores and one of the largest movie theaters here). Its also a major buss route and full of taxi's due to tourists. The speed limit is only 35, but the road is pothole'd to death and people here drive like idiots.

yeah, that road suuuuuuuuuuuuuuux... with the construction, i'm pretty sure it's not even fun anymore - i take a different route crosstown.

9th avenue going downtown from the 40's is a good time - not so dangerous, but the downhill is pretty sweet; you get really get the legs spinning.

oh, and delancey can be fun too: cruising into the left most lane straight from the bridge, or outrunning cars to get back on it...

It sounds like it's the Minnesotans that are doing all the shooting :eek:

delancey eastbound is way fun, heading towards the wb bridge in the left lane. it's the fastest way onto the bridge, though it CAN get hectic sometimes.

The gun the guy used (Chinese SKS) is the very same model my dad bought me for my 12th birthday. When I got it, the fact that I was carrying an assault rifle (with optional bayonet clip!) made me too freaked out by to deer hunt again.

"It sounds like it's the Minnesotans that are doing all the shooting "

all the more reason for gilby to stay outta the woods.

I take that route to school everyday and it sucks but is fun as you can build up a lot of speed coming of the bridge. I usually get by by just taking the lane and sitting in the middle past the 8-lane death trap section. Sometimes you get lucky with the lights and you can sprint through the death trap while it is empty.

going down a steep hill with lots of traffic lights in the rain during rush hour.

Gilby, you are right about that section of mpls. Sometimes I'll just stay on the sidewalk 'til I get to Franklin if I'm going up Lyndale. Trying to get over to henny pin is too nerve-wrecking for me. Another danger spot is heading south on Cedar right past Franklin and the highway, is that 94? Anyway, cars just have no respect for anything else on that particular slice of road, it's actually really scary.

i agree that cedar is exceptionally hairy south of franklin...that's actually what i was going to post. and it's really the only way to get from the west bank to phillips or powderhorn, unless you go west on franklin to bloomington, but that route is scary for its own reasons. it's awesome how the bike lane slowly disappears right as you go downhill and around a curve for maximum invisibility to motorists. i remember a woman getting hit there a few years back while riding. i usually just bomb it and hope for the best, and try to make that right turn on 24th as fast as i can, but just about every time i feel more tired than i feel like the incline warrants.