Did he or didn't he?
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by Off the grid » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:53 pm
Gonna go with no. I wouldn't do that on my KTM.
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by Jim » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:17 pm
I wouldn't have - unless I knew that little stretch of road better than the back of my hand and knew the deepest point wasn't up to the bottom of the oil pan.
I'm going to say he did...
I'm going to say he did...
Jim 
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I'll stick with "the brick"
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by old guy old bike » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:46 pm
From the angle of the guard rail I would say no way.
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by skdonlan » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:48 pm
No, no, no! That most beautiful of the K11' s ( 
) deserves better than that. I might have taken my lifted Tacoma 4x4 across that, but not the K!
) deserves better than that. I might have taken my lifted Tacoma 4x4 across that, but not the K!Steve
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by drmalacarne » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:53 pm
Go, Forest, Go!
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by SugarHillCTD » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:39 pm
Jim wrote:I wouldn't have - unless I knew that little stretch of road better than the back of my hand and knew the deepest point wasn't up to the bottom of the oil pan....
That looks like oil pan would be well submerged and the water could be over the air intake
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by LordGondor » Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:04 pm
The guard rails definitely threw me!
Being a complete wimp I had turned the bike around, when I saw a bicyclist approaching. He went right through it, down the center with the water just an inch over his rim, smirking as he passed me. Easy on the throttle I made it right through. I didn't get soaked until the second run!
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by robleyd » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:57 am
Having had to cross a lot of water like that in the Northern Territory years ago to get somewhere I needed to be, I became quite adept at walking through the water to determine the best way through. Although it is probable the temperature of the water I walked in (tropical or just sub-tropical areas) was much more comfortable than what I see in the pic.
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Taking off the fanbelt in a car was often required!
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by Shoganai » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:29 pm
SugarHillCTD wrote:That looks like oil pan would be well submerged and the water could be over the air intake
Not if you semi-gun-it say at about 35-45 mph standing on the pegs. The bow-wake would keep the water out of the air intake.
I would have ridden across it :shrug
But to each his own.
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The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies there.
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by ChrisWeeK1100RS » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:46 pm
With the kind of rain we have, we get small floods here all the time, so I'm quite familiar with riding thru areas like this, in short, I don't! I did once on a previous bike and yeah, it was an expensive lesson on the benefits of finding an alternate route
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by Off the grid » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:48 pm
I wouldn't do it simply because of the bees nest hanging there.
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by Shoganai » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:00 pm
ChrisWeeK1100RS wrote:Famous last words..
"Nehhh....ridden thru it several times, it's never that deep....."
Chris, you're a man after my own heart with this pic!
Totally AWSOME shot and adventure!
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So slip the chain and I'm off again,
You'll find me everywhere. I'm a Rover. - JT
Nana korobi ya oki
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