I REALLY love the upper section of Latigo...the roads are well paved...not to many cars...just watch out for the driveways and unexpected cars pulling out....but other then that its pretty solid IMO but yes as you get lower the road gets a little crappy...but its not all at once...you will begin to see the chopped up road and will realize that its time to chill out a little for the remainder of the road....but its not UN-rideable by any means....just requires a little more attention to detail in the bottom 1/4 of the rode...but its definitely a nice canyon!