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Re: Riding through Flood water - OMG

Sorry about the rain yesterday guys, it was all my fault. I washed the car and the bike so a downpour was inevitable.

2mths: that sounds bloomin' scary, you did well to keep it pointing the right way!

Re: Riding through Flood water - OMG

If it makes you feel any better, Andy, we had a 230 mile day yesterday...................and didn't get rained on once:p

Re: Riding through Flood water - OMG

I was on the way back from "breaking" in my new tyres up the A3 and all of a sudden the sky just turned black and it started pelting down .... it was so hard i thought it might have been hail at one point.
Then all of a sudden it stopped, i didn't actually end up getting very wet.

:cool:

Re: Riding through Flood water - OMG

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Originally Posted by 2mths (Post 1203251)

Where's that K? Sounds like it might have been where I was? On the stretch between the Bedford roundabout and err 'town' (car garages on right - waste ground then Becketts park? on left)

Nah, it's up by Abingdon Park (the name escaped me when I first posted) just opposite the church. Handily enough there's also a pedestrian crossing as well just where the road dips and collects water! :twisted:

The worst part used to be on the underpass from Weston Favell Tescos (if you head out for the dual carrageway towards Spinny Hill) - the slightest shadow of a rain cloud and that used to have a puddle in it a foot deep.
Any actual rain and it turned into a flooded runway in a tunnel where, if i hit it just right, I could get the bowwave from the 4x4 to hit the ceiling of the underpass!
Ahh, happy days.
Almost a shame they fixed the drainage there. ;)