Standing water

[Kilted Ginger]

Slow and steady or blast right through?

S&s better control, safer

Blast get really wet, loads of fun

Discuss

[Baph]

In the car, nail it & aqua-plane.

On the bike, depends. Mid corner avoid it like the plague, neutral about everything. On a straight bit? Nail it. :D

I remember on a rideout a while ago, I was behind Pete & Lisa coming up to standing water, it was maybe a foot deep, and I considered the options. Pete nailed it, so I figured heh, what the hell. I didn't get wet, well, my boots a little perhaps, the rest of the water was parted by the front wheel at speed.

[dizzyblonde]

depends, that standing pool of water might get you in some right sh!t..literally. Be a bit smelly getting covered in it on the bike.

However I've waded through some right ponds on the bike in the past, just lift up the legs onto the motosliders so they don't get wet :-)

[Lozzo]

One of the roads through Kempston used to flood really badly, to the extent that the police would divert traffic away and through back streets. On one of these occasions I talked a copper into letting me ride my Kawasaki KE175 trail bike through the flood, knowing it would be about 18" to 2' deep. I started going through fast enough to create a bow-wave and was doing ok til I got about 100 yards in with another 50 to go, when the bike just cut out unexpectedly. It caught me off guard and I toppled of the side and into the water. I felt a right plank pushing the bike the 50 yards to the end of the flood with about 5 coppers laughing like drains at me.

When I got to the end, the bloody bike started first kick as well.

[STRAMASHER]

"If In Doubt, Flat Out."







....cos I have seen the problem too late.

TBH I'll usually head for the pavement/crown/otherside of road.

Plenty of practice last coupla days for the fjording.Was feeling particularly miserable on thursday in torrential rain , high winds and soggy bawz, until I saw a fella on his Divvy600............ in jeans!Haw!:)

[Bluepete]

I did the "If in doubt............" one a few months ago near here. Unfortunatley, the water was from a burst sewer and the bike got decorated with, well, poo and loo roll!

Ho hum!

Pete

[Lissa]

I did the "If in doubt............" one a few months ago near here. Unfortunatley, the water was from a burst sewer and the bike got decorated with, well, poo and loo roll!

Ho hum!

Pete

Hee hee hee hee hee.

Still makes me chuckle:mrgreen:

[Stig]

There is a 'dip' on the countryside road route on my commute. It seems every time it rains if floods. If it rains proper like, it can get two or three feet deep.

I got there one time and cars were turning around stating the road was impassable. Even the 4x4's were turning round. I was on the Dullsville where the exhaust is about six inches off the ground. I reckon I had a good foot to go before the water level would get as high as the airbox. So went for it. Constant throttle all the way through and out the other side. :cool:

[Dangerous Dave]

If you do not the road and can't judge the depth take it slow and steady, try to keep the bike as upright as possible.

[dirtydog]

It depends whether i'm on the bike or ing the car and whether it's my vehicle or not. A few years ago me and a work mate decided that we'd ignore the diversion around Staines and head through the water in our transit, I'm sure the bloody thing was floating at times! The water was deep enough that it came in over the door steps and the front number plate was missing when we got out the other side

[G]

I remember on a rideout a while ago, I was behind Pete & Lisa coming up to standing water, it was maybe a foot deep, and I considered the options. Pete nailed it, so I figured heh, what the hell. I didn't get wet, well, my boots a little perhaps, the rest of the water was parted by the front wheel at speed.

That was a year or so ago if I'm thinking of the same one, started at bassets pole?

Rained on and off allday and there was pretty much a river going across the road near macclesfield lol?

[-Ralph-]

Why do you ask, your lanes flooded again?

[yorkie_chris]

Hehehe. Reminds me of the other year up on a quarry we take trials bikes to, there's some big holes that are full of liquid mud, due to it being -5 ish, these had a skin of ice and snow over them. One lad on a crosser ploughed right into it, up to his nuts in icy mud. Brrrrrr!

I just tend to go steady in deep water, unless you can see the end of it, then you can hit it at speed.

[Kilted Ginger]

Area around here flooded last few days so was trying different techniques and wondered what the legs opinion was

[hovis]

wheelie

[northwind]

If the water across it has been fast flowing, ie, burst river etc, then there can be all sorts of crap on the road... There's an underpass under a railway bridge near my work that often floods, I used to just blast through then one time I saw them draining it, and there was a massive log lying across the road. So be careful!