View Full Version : Have you driven your bike into a lake or canal?
kurtis.randle
26-03-09, 11:22 PM
Has anybody driven into a lake or canal on their motorbike and why ?
jamesterror
26-03-09, 11:29 PM
thats a different one? I know somebody who's mirror dropped off his ped, he leant down to pick it up, throttled still on (idiot) and it went off into a bush, hilarious.
kurtis.randle
26-03-09, 11:33 PM
thats a different one? I know somebody who's mirror dropped off his ped, he leant down to pick it up, throttled still on (idiot) and it went off into a bush, hilarious.
haha
Sid Squid
26-03-09, 11:34 PM
:confused:
kurtis.randle
26-03-09, 11:34 PM
:confused:
whats this?
Sid Squid
26-03-09, 11:39 PM
An expression of my utter speechless puzzlement at your most bizarre and dumbfounding question.
kurtis.randle
26-03-09, 11:52 PM
An expression of my utter speechless puzzlement at your most bizarre and dumbfounding question.
Well nothing better to talk about ,better than some lol
I was following a tipper truck once, on an A road, doing just shy of 60. Then the guy went plunging into a huuuuge puddle (from a flooded ditch) that spanned both sides at a dip in the road. He then proceeded to slam on the anchors.
I braked as hard as I dared but couldn't stop before the burst ditch. The engine almost instantly stalled and locked the rear wheel. It got a bit out of shape but then straightend up and i stopped. It was so deep it was above the top of my boot when I put my foot down. 40 miles from home with a boot full of manky water. Niiiice! :smt091
I have no intentions to try riding into a canal just to answer your question tho. :rolleyes:
kurtis.randle
26-03-09, 11:55 PM
i was following a tipper truck once, on an a road, doing just shy of 60. Then the guy went plunging into a huuuuge puddle (from a flooded ditch) that spanned both sides at a dip in the road. He then proceeded to slam on the anchors.
I braked as hard as i dared but couldn't stop before the burst ditch. The engine almost instantly stalled and locked the rear wheel. It got a bit out of shape but then straightend up and i stopped. It was so deep it was above the top of my boot when i put my foot down. 40 miles from home with a boot full of manky water. Niiiice! :smt091
i have no intentions to try riding into a canal just to answer your question tho. :rolleyes:
why not haha
Has anybody driven into a lake or canal on their motorbike and why ?
Are you Blue without the polls?
the_lone_wolf
27-03-09, 12:38 AM
:confused:
+1
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot over...
Ridden my SV through a Ford on purpose - was soaking wet from rain and had recently been driven through it in a CRV so I thought I would give it a go.
Also rode through deep flooding on my ZX7R that was under a railway bridge - didn't see the extent of the flooding in the dark.
Survived both encounters.
Was that what you were after OP?
Mighty Boosh
27-03-09, 01:21 AM
Here is one i crashed earlier..
Mighty Boosh
27-03-09, 01:25 AM
+++
No but I once made an egg explode.
Bluepete
27-03-09, 09:45 AM
We used to do lake leaping on mountain bikes.
Have you ever ridden your bike into a lake or canal, and if not, why not? You should lead by example and make sure to post pics and or vids of the event.
Pete
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp169/J2UK/Russian.jpg
Russian federal freeway goes from Moscow to Yakutsk in Siberia.
Has anybody driven into a lake or canal on their motorbike and why ?
No. Because I'd end up wet and the bike wouldn't work any more.](*,)
Well nothing better to talk about ,better than some lol
Quality makes more interesting reading that plain random quantity..
Strangest post i've ever seen here......
fizzwheel
27-03-09, 11:40 AM
No, but I have driven a rolls royce into a swiming pool and thrown TV's out of hotel rooms
I am that Rock n Roll...
Nobbylad
27-03-09, 11:43 AM
Ridden my SV through a Ford on purpose -
I rode my SV through a Ford, although it was by accident.
You see, he did a right turn across the front of me from the middle lane without indicating. Bloody students! :rolleyes:
Bluepete
27-03-09, 11:44 AM
I am that Rock n Roll...
No you're not Fizz, that's just in your mind! ;)
Pete
No, but I have driven a rolls royce into a swiming pool and thrown TV's out of hotel rooms
I am that Rock n Roll...
+1
I once threw a piano on to a fire and ride my push bike through puddles often!!!
BORN TO BE WILD!!!!!!
I was on a rideout maybe last year some time, following Pete & Lissa. It'd been raining pretty heavily, and there was a dip in the road ahead that had filled with water.
Pete didn't slow down, so I consciously opened the throttle a little.
The water was deep enough to be above the pegs if we were slower, but made a nice impressive bow wave, and with my high level can & increased revs I wasn't worried about water down the exhaust.
Test the brakes afterwards & carry on.
Does that count? I'm sure a number of folks on the .Org did exactly the same on the same rideout.
vardypeeps
27-03-09, 01:08 PM
I'v ridden through smoke twice.
The first time it was just smoke covering the road and a fire going in a dried up field.
Second time was not fun and I will never do it again. I thought it will only be as bad as before due to it being a fire on the moores in the same area. Set off through the smoke and it was like 2mtr visablity with flames flicking up across the road.
Nearly binned it cos I get disorented and lost my balance.
I had to stop in the road and set off again!
I got to the other side and all I could feel was relief. There was a copper on the other side
'Have you just ridden through there?'
'Erm yes, I didn't realise it was that bad'
'Get out of my sight before I arrest you'
'Bye'
So in other words no mate but DO NOT RIDE THROUGH SMOKE lol
Has anybody driven into a lake or canal on their motorbike i did it on a BMX
and why ?
i was drunk, and thought it would be a laugh.......... i was right
'Get out of my sight before I arrest you'
hope you disappeared back into the smoke?
:-dd
the_lone_wolf
27-03-09, 01:16 PM
hope you disappeared back into the smoke?
:-dd
he's got a curvey, probably disappeared in a cloud of smoke;)
dizzyblonde
27-03-09, 01:24 PM
I was on a rideout maybe last year some time, following Pete & Lissa. It'd been raining pretty heavily, and there was a dip in the road ahead that had filled with water.
Pete didn't slow down, so I consciously opened the throttle a little.
The water was deep enough to be above the pegs if we were slower, but made a nice impressive bow wave, and with my high level can & increased revs I wasn't worried about water down the exhaust.
Test the brakes afterwards & carry on.
Does that count? I'm sure a number of folks on the .Org did exactly the same on the same rideout.
haahaa I did that on a rideout up pately bridge last year. It was when there had been a lot of floods and a lot of roads were closed. On the way back there was a huge puddle(read small pond) off a sliproad onto the dual carriage way, and I rode through it like a bat out of hell. Had to lift my feet up onto the mtosliders to no get wet. Having that nice tail tidy made a giant plume onto SV-GXR's (lukes) head.:smt098
He said it was the last time he was riding behind me in the rain again.
dizzyblonde
27-03-09, 01:26 PM
. I thought it will only be as bad as before due to it being a fire on the moores in the same area.
wasn't up Saddleworth was it? You daft git!!!
could see that up Highroadwell moor. Looked rather good did the fire at night on the opposite hill.
Alpinestarhero
27-03-09, 01:26 PM
this thread is great, i am wetting myself!
I rode my SV through a deep puddle. I was worried more about the water soaking the front plug, so i pulled the clutch in and kept the throttle open, yum yum
northwind
27-03-09, 01:30 PM
I rode my mountain bike into a reservoir... It didn't look deep, but it turned out it was, shame it was in the days before youtube :D Diving back in to get the bike back was the worst part.
gettin2dizzy
27-03-09, 01:30 PM
I rode through the massive floods, and going through an underpass on the motorway, the water went over my ankles! Hehe. All the cars went off at the slipway before it ;)
gettin2dizzy
27-03-09, 01:31 PM
i did it on a BMX
i was drunk, and thought it would be a laugh.......... i was right
Don't give me ideas!
cb5_keith
27-03-09, 01:37 PM
me and my mate made a smaller, but just as decent version of jackass lake (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2LTrwZftI) in his back garden leading into a lake...some good summer days...
I've ridden my mountain bike over a frozen lake before.
I fell over 3 times, then on the 4th time, the ice gave way. :(
Was a good laugh though. :lol: I did it because someone said "I bet you daren't..." and I was young...
vardypeeps
27-03-09, 01:40 PM
wasn't up Saddleworth was it? You daft git!!!
could see that up Highroadwell moor. Looked rather good did the fire at night on the opposite hill.
Eh em, might have been lol. It was so scary never taking the chance again. I will go the long way around if it happens. As if you could see it from there more impressive from 3/4ft away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaMiD5T_kU Not sure how good this video is as I can not go on Youtube at work.
cb5_keith
27-03-09, 01:42 PM
"I bet you daren't..."
always followed by "I bet you I fu**ing would"
errr ....I may have actually done it once................
yorkie_chris
27-03-09, 03:18 PM
I've parked my trials bike in a pond and in a ditch.
I once rode through a puddle, my bike got dirty so i turned home to clean it.
teenage yrs ,3 up on an old bogseat(c90)and riding round the football field in the fog ,so the old bill didnt see us.
teenage yrs ,3 up
back in the day this was also somehting i frequented on my ped. gotta laugh
BanditPat
27-03-09, 09:00 PM
Never i sat on the tank with some one on the back seat on my old bike....it wasnt so much a tank but a plastic cover for a storage compartment....needless to say it imploded and i looked like an idiot and my dad had to fix it i fishtailed doing it past the cop shop before as well good thing no one saw ;-)
LOL wtf were you thinking making this thread?!
Edit: in answer to your question, no i havnt driven my bike into a lake or canal. A river? yes, but to explain would be going off topic
One of my favorite childhood memories is reversing a pedal go-kart at high speed into a canal. Fortunately it had water in it at the time, or I would have made a right fool of myself.
LOL wtf were you thinking making this thread?!
Edit: in answer to your question, no i havnt driven my bike into a lake or canal. A river? yes, but to explain would be going off topic
I don't think it can be that off topic?!!!!
Isn't this thread counted as off topic anyways?
hence, you're posts can't be off topic, as there is no topic..
Kind of.. :)
injury_ian
27-03-09, 10:29 PM
A river once rode through my bike......
kurtis.randle
27-03-09, 10:36 PM
errr ....I may have actually done it once................
thought youd know
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070808/gallery/cuckoo2_l.jpg
Say's it all me thinks :confused: :geek:
I was on a rideout maybe last year some time, following Pete & Lissa. It'd been raining pretty heavily, and there was a dip in the road ahead that had filled with water.
Pete didn't slow down, so I consciously opened the throttle a little.
The water was deep enough to be above the pegs if we were slower, but made a nice impressive bow wave, and with my high level can & increased revs I wasn't worried about water down the exhaust.
Test the brakes afterwards & carry on.
Does that count? I'm sure a number of folks on the .Org did exactly the same on the same rideout.
Yep, that was deeper than it looked. I just went for it as nobody else seemed that concerned about it.....wet feet for the rest of the day lol
Has anybody driven into a lake or canal on their motorbike and why ?
Not yet, but its getting more and more tempting by the day for insurance purposes...:mad:
Edit: Paws, im only kidding...although I may turn left, heading west down Embankment....
An ex of mine has! His lodger had a cruiser (dunno what it was, it was in the 80's) and for a laugh they thought they'd ride 3 up along the canal tow path. Well his lodger lost control and all three plus bike ended up in the canal. Bike was never to be seen again as his lodger was too embarrassed to report it to the police or his insurance company!
It took me months to find out why his bike was missing from my ex's garage!
dizzyblonde
29-03-09, 06:48 PM
best place for a cruiser if you ask me....lol.
Amplimator
29-03-09, 07:05 PM
thas nothing, did you not see wot that kid did on his BMX back in the 80's???
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8689/et5w434hq80.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=et5w434hq80.jpg)
Ceri JC
30-03-09, 10:28 AM
I've ridden both bikes and cars through floods and deep fords. Never driven one into a lake though. :)
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