The WMDR (World's Most Dangerous Road)

I went on a mountain bike ride over the weekend down "The World's Most Dangerous Road" - as proclaimed by the U.S. Department of Transportation because there are more deaths per year (180) than any other road. [I also found out that I had traveled down the 2nd most dangerous road in the world while traveling down the mountains from Lesotho to South Africa 4 years ago.] The bike ride starts at an altitude of 4,680m and ends at 1,400m after only 63km. It took about 4.5 hours, because we had to pull over several times to avoid the occasional truck coming up the road, but we could have down it much faster otherwise. The first 20km were paved and of the guides and I got up to 90kph (54mph)! It was totally fog-covered when we were riding down, so we couldn't see the 600-1,000m cliffs that we were riding on, but at one stop I threw a couple big rocks off the side of the road and couldn't hear them hit anything so suffice it to say it was steep! On the way back up the next day we could see the view and it was marvelous, but we all agreed the drive up was actually scarier than the ride down.