World's Steepest Street - Canton Ave, Pittsburgh - Bikes Crash
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This is Canton Ave in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the specialty of this street is that it is the steepest street in the world with a grade of 37 percent. If you are wondering why so many people have gathered here, they are all waiting to see a bike race called dirty dozen where the riders have to climb this road. Let’s see if they can. As you can see, many of the professional cyclists do make it to the top, while some of them cannot do it. A few of them have even tried twice and failed and many people do fall. Canton Avenue simply defeats them and if it starts snowing, it is impossible to drive up even with your car. There is a lot of debate if Canton Ave is the steepest street in the world because according to Guinness book of world records, Baldwin Street in New Zealand is listed as the steepest one. But Baldwin Street has a grade of just 35 percent while Canton ave is in fact steeper than that with a grade of 37 percent. It is so steep that even snowplows don’t drive through to clean the street during winter. You can see that there are quite a few houses on this street. Guess what they do during winter? They all park their cars on the street below and walk up the steps on the side. This would be especially hard when they have to carry groceries and other items to their homes. Canton Ave is located in Beechview neighborhood in Pittsburgh and the GPS coordinates are Latitude: 40.4104043 and Longitude -80.0301259. So, if you live in Pittsburgh do check it out. It is quite a challenge to drive through this street and if you ride a bike, it gets a lot tougher. Please visit http://www.phenomenalplace.com for interesting and intriguing places on the planet. Follow at: https://twitter.com/phenomenalplace
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Insider tip: Try a lower gear. Lower.
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Fantastic superb interesting marvellous
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Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand is the world's steepest residential street, according to the Guinness World Records, .Canton is the steepest in the US, the 20 ft section of 37% on canton st isn't long enough to change the overall grade of canton and the grade of Baldwin St is consistent.
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Thompson Street in Troy, NY is 28% (that's a 16 degree pitch) and people always slide off it when it snows. So 37% is way too steep in an area that gets snow and ice. Ridiculously unsafe.
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baldwin street in nz is the steepest street in the world
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Seems like a lot of fun!
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Also, I could walk up that easily. I know, because I once climbed up a very steep hill with only roots to hang onto.
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Im sorry, but New Zealand has taken the prize.
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These are not professional cyclists
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Good for them, and the girls!!!!!
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Oh hell no.
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i live 2 blocks away and never knew
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that's not the steepest street in the world
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I'm so out of shape If I tried doing this my heart would literally explode. Man my chest hurts even watching it.
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3:53 amazing girl makes it with a fat surly bike!
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2:36 it's like a fucking scene
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1:45 please call them a taxi
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that's me in the blue gloves at 4:28 cool!
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I like the video but its raining and that has an unfair advantage to the push to start. i always support Pittsburgh though!
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your not right the steeepest street in the world is in NZ
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