Ah geez. There goes the neighborhood.
It hasn't been a 'secret' for a long time now.
I rode Skaggs a couple of weeks ago. The road is wonderful, but the scene SUCKS!! Never have I wanted to get off a road so badly. We saw everything -- a rider blowing the DY and crashing (almost taking Michael Moore out head-on in the process), riders with trackbikes and slicks doing laps, crashed bikes just sitting on the side of the road, dudes with mohawks, cars coming into blind turns in our lane, bike clubs, car clubs, every biker with his wheels on the DY and his bike and body over. I just stayed on the outside of every turn and did everything I could to avoid the apex cuz of the number of idiots out there. The next day, a rider died when he plowed into a car.
The road is great, but there's no run-off, a lot of guardrails and a lot of triple digit corners (if you're railing). There's a reason that so many Skaggs crashes end up with someone hurt. Guardrails aren't soft. If I need track time, there's Sears Point or Laguna or Thunderhill. If I want to ride the street, there are too many good roads around that area to bother with Skaggs.
That said, I'd be happy to ride it on a Tuesday in winter. [moto]
