Diesel Colorado/Canyon

spoon059 wrote:

I would love to take a poll of people here on RV.net and find out how many of them actually drive up that road. For all the nonsense I hear about that road, I would bet less than 5% of RVer's actually drive that thing. We never did and we went across the country when I was a kid.

Of those 5% that drive up that road, how many tow there with a regularity? Maybe 10% of them? For that miniscule population, perhaps this is a valid concern and something to think about. For the 99% of people that will never drive it or drive it less than once a year... does it really matter if you can drive super fast or if you are cruising along at 45 mph in the right lane with the OTR truck drivers and it takes another 15 minutes to get to the top?

Enough with the freakin Ike Guantlet already...

Spoon, taking the 26 out of Portland, OR towards the coast, you get a 6.5% grade right out of the city. Semi's are always on the far right with hazards on when they are loaded. It may not be a mile or 2 in the air, but I frequent this grade all the time. West coast residents have plenty of big grades whenever they want to go somewhere, skiing in the cascades or rockies, driving out of the valleys to the coast. So it's a big deal over here. The only thing Ike tortures in addition to steep grades are the cooling systems, brakes (because fluids boil at a lower temp when the atmospheric pressure is reduced) and Naturally aspirated engines (modern turbo engines really don't feel much, the turbos will just spin that much faster and the computer will adjust the geometry to ensure it hits its boost targets to maintain the atmosphere it wants). So it will be interesting to see how the minimax does when loaded to the hilt. Peeps is guessing 42 mph, I'm hoping 45mph or greater. I think we almost have a pool going here ha ha.