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Originally Posted by Malaki86
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Originally Posted by Kevinz
Thanks for your reply. Could you please list some part of road we need to pay extra caution,Please.
Pretty much the entire length of I68 from Morgantown, WV to Hancock, MD - there's some really steep grades there, plus the weather changes constantly. Plus, when heading west, there's 13miles of downgrade coming into Cumberland. If you don't gear it proper, you'll smoke your brakes long before you get to the bottom (in a 40mph turn). Best bet there, ignore the trucks flying past you and do the posted limits (45mph from the weigh station until you get through Cumberland).
I live at the bottom of that 90 degree turns
Its actually an S turn, and slightly off camber. Headed eastbound is the worst tho, you have that 40mph turn with the wall (a.k.a. "moose curve" to us locals because of the moose lodge behind the wall... the wall was built to funnel trucks around the turn after several trucks ran off the road and into the houses that used to be there.). Westbound on I68 thru Cumberland isn't bad tho because you come across the cross town bridge before hitting the turns.
If you're headed eastbound just after exit 40 in I68 there is a brake check area... please check your brakes there... ALOT of people don't but you need to its about 6-7 miles downgrade ending with that 90 degree lefthander right after the steepest part of the downgrade. I for one know I'll stop there EVERYTIME i pass thru it because I've seen what happens first hand (was a volunteer firefighter there growing up).
Rt 128 from TN -> NC isn't pretty either
Someone has gotta have the webpage for pics of it somewhere... I used to but misplaced it. But yeah... you couldn't get me on that road in a car much less a 18wheeler. Maybe on a motorcycle just because the curves would be FUN.
Happy New Year everyone! Be safe!