Mountain Biking down Bolivia's Death Road as seen on ABC

This is the full footage from a recent TV show filmed with Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking on the World's Most Dangerous Road (also known as the Death Road) and shown on television in New Zealand. The show gives a great idea of the ride, the road, the legend and the drama. Enjoy!

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Adventure
• Death
• Road
• Mountain
• Biking
• Downhill
• Travel
• Bolivia
• South
• America
• World's
• Most
• Dangerous
• Gravity

[GravityBolivia]

Gravity commercialized the road in mid-'98 and were riding every day except Monday's from '99. During all of '98 and all of '99 we never saw any other business riding the road. We have heard claims of people saying they were the first as early as '80. The reality is that WE were the 1st to turn this ride into a real business. Just because someone else rode a few times a year with a few customers doesn't make them "first"... at anything other than NOT making a full success of this opportunity.

[GravityBolivia]

besamemucho5 ... don't knock it until you've tried it. Funnily enough the whole ride is on A ROAD... as such most serious mountain bikers do not consider this ride challenging enough. However for the backpacker or adventure traveler it is GREAT FUN, not at all akin to chopping ones balls off ...

[shankholio]

I would love to do this on my dirtbike

[djinnov8]

I always wondered what Wolverine did to pay his rent...

[lynnthomas23]

one of the best things i ve ever done, flying down the road with 500ft cliff edges right next to you, hell of a buzz

[bajista007]

I have to add that a new road has been added more secure and quicker, however the bike tours are still going on the old "Ruta de La Muerte" with less much car traffic.

[elmarcianodenny]

How many lives do you start with? Seems real dangerous for cars but for a good MTB ride... not so much. At least from the cam view.

[yesroh]

This would be a real blast, but not worth dying for

[Varaxis]

Needs more dramatization. This seems like a walk in the park compared to other stuff.

[yesroh]

Oh, well that makes a lot more sense. I read an article on it about a month ago where they had autos on there still (and I don't think they mentioned that on the video). I might run it---biking it is another thing.