It takes BALLS OF STEEL to take on Pikes Peak. All I need is one video showing what happens to the fuck-ups that makes me change my mind from "I wanna do that" to "Maybe not".
You go off the edge in some of those spots you are dead.
When I was in Colorado we drove up Mt Evans which is almost as tall as Pikes Peak (Evans is some 14,000ft). And some of those roads are SUPER narrow. It was freaky enough navigating them at 5mph with opposing traffic.