Here are mine and a rider on a CX bike this morning. Peverse fun we had 
I followed suit but my mudguards made it hard work! - stuff now drying on the radiator at work - LOL - prob sewerage laden 
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Flood Pictures with Bikes?
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Christ on a Bike
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Noah way would I head into that!
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LOL
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Hope you were wearing Lake shoes. Boom tish
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whats under the water? Tarmac bike path?
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An old one (from Spring this year). I gave up shortly after it was taken, as I'd completely lost track of what was field, path and 6m deep river. The next 4hrs riding weren't too comfortable.
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Yeah its
awas compacted grit path - probably not so compacted now!LOL @ Lake shoes - the Crimbo jokes are in full swing
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the video i shot 6yrs ago was made from the 2nd days footage as the 1st day when it was fully flooded was over exposed.
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Nice Vid Jedi - so all of that was flooded - blimey!
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I went out a few years ago on my cx bike round the local country roads and tracks. I was about a mile from home and took the road with the ford across it. Its a short frossing of about 4 metres and was pretty deep, there's a slight downhill before it so I hit it fast, got to the middle of the fast flowing river, stopped dead, bike got swept from under me, I fell into river and almost lost the bike. It was quite a scary moment.
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A few months ago the highest tide of the year coincided with my ride home at 6pm
The commute was from Kew bridge to teddington - it usually floods a little bit in Richmond on a fairly high tide, but this was a chunk higherI rebuilt the bottom bracket that evening but the deore hubs were dry under the seals when I got round to them the week after.
Nick
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foxyrider, yeah it flash floods and all the ladders go over the water
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Blimey NIck - you wouldn't want to stray too far to your right!
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Is that Newt 'n' Aboot Foxyrider..?
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I think it was the week that David Walliams was doing his swim - not really a surprise that he got ill.
To get an idea of depth it was a GoPro mounted on the top of a fork stanction, so the base of the camera was level with the lower headset race.
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Yeah Yunki - back cycle path to Newtn' Scabbart
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Core Doh1Nut that's a lot of water! How did you know where the path ended and the canal started?
This is far less impressive, more of a big puddle than a flood, and was 3 or 4 years ago now, but any-hoo:
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From a few years ago
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dohnut, that's amazing - the underwater bits are quite eerie. though the best bit is Dom stacking it on the kerb.
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Jeez Nick! Just one question - what tyres for submarining?
Tracey - what's going on there then?
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Few years ago I saw a presentation by a bloke from Hereford and Worcester Fire brigade...there was a fire engine on a road, and there was a big puddle in front of it. Fireman at the edge of puddle with a stic poking at the bottom of the puddle. The fire engine never went that way as the man with a stick couldn't touch the bottom.
the next picture was a couple of days later...water drained away and a huge 15ft hole is revealed under the puddle.
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It was on a local trail the day the big floods came. Thought it was a good idea at the time, did get quite a few odd looks
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I wouldn't want to ride through something that is deeper than hub depth.
Reeeealy don't want to have to strip down the hubs to make sure that they're dry inside.
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did get quite a few odd looks
I can possilby understand: barcode wellies?
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floods = blown drains = shit floating round in the water
stay away
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