Oi! SPEEDPLAY! And anyone else who does green laning...

Heres a couple to go with the earlier pic:-

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

How well does yours cope with water?

Mines pretty good.

The salisbury plain weekend we did was really wet.

The trails were slippy (yes I did chuck the bike at the ground more than once) and most of the trails had 2 inches or so of really cold and smelly water.

The exhaust stinks if you get too much cack caked onto it but other than that, no problems at all

Originally Posted by speedplay

Heres a couple to go with the earlier pic:-

Yep, some of the lane alongside the field pictured above was like that, very deeply rutted and lots of water, 9 to 12" in places, well up past the foot pegs.

Originally Posted by speedplay

Mines pretty good.

The salisbury plain weekend we did was really wet.

The trails were slippy (yes I did chuck the bike at the ground more than once) and most of the trails had 2 inches or so of really cold and smelly water.

The exhaust stinks if you get too much cack caked onto it but other than that, no problems at all

I've posted on an XT600 forum to see where the weaknesses are in terms of water. The spark plug probably needs some silicone gel around it, and I don't know if there are other connections to and from the CDI that don't like getting wet. The airbox intake is quite low on the XT600, but it wan't that deep. I'll reroute it with a snorkel when I get a chance.

Not nice when it runs down your neck either....

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

The airbox intake is quite low on the XT600, but it wan't that deep. I'll reroute it with a snorkel when I get a chance.

How deep are you looking to go on river crossings?!

Originally Posted by speedplay

How deep are you looking to go on river crossings?!

In the mountains of Spain and Portugal, it could be two feet, depending on the time of year. Did 18 inches in Mexico. More than that and I'll find another crossing point.

I haven't had the seat and side panels off to see if it has a snorkel fitted as standard. There are certainly carb breather pipes that I need to reroute that will be sucking in water and that could be part of my problem today as it was deep enough for them to be submerged and it did feel like a fuel contamination/starvation issue and the exhaust sounded like it may have been spitting, but I was so busy keeping the bike upright I didn't dare look. But it could have been a soaked HT lead as well, or CDI electrics (though the CDI is high up in the tail plastics so that wasn't wet unless water spraying off the rear wheel is getting in). I wonder if there is a cylinder drain hole like on the SV, that was full of mud.

It's not so much depth of water that's an issue with air intakes, it's dropping the bike half way across, you only need to be trying to save the bike from going over, against the current, with the bike at 45 degrees in two feet of water before, you are up to the air intake. Then you have to push the bike across and get the spark plug out before you can start it again.

I also had the chain jump the rear sprocket today and bloody jam itself between wheel hub and swingarm. That took some teasing out by hand. I'm not quote sure that the chain tension is correct as I'm not sure how it should be set on a bike that has long suspension travel.

ralph im still only 19 so not grown up yet and i was even younger when i illegally motox i started doing it legally when i was 16 and did a few 12 hour endurance races but that ended when i totalled my bike and shoulder. now want some more fun off road looking at doing it legally now as most the work i want to do now needs a clean criminal record. but these expenses are high and my income is very low.
when i did it all illegally it was with mates on his bikes (his family was very well off) more thrill in a chase as well.
I did a session on the m54j4 course and there was some police motocross bikers there to catch people like me in my younger days, and i said "try to keep up with me" one was able to get infront of me the rest got bogged down in the wet stuff. they dont understand the term go virgin, i do as much as possible

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Did 18 inches in Mexico.

Originally Posted by sunshine

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