riding through unknown puddles can provide much entertainment for others....
on local trails my mate and i will often find some debris to fill in a boggy puyddle and/or dig a small channel so that the water can escape.
i agree that riding around puddles is a daft exercise considering we are riding big bikes designed for muddy conditions and that it increases trail erosion.
puddles are also fun when you bunny hop into them soaking your fellow riders.
I rode into a puddle on the whw years ago. Turned out the water was hiding a hole about 2ft deep, I exited over the handlebars to every ones amusement but at least the bike wasnt bent 
cant beat a good bow wave motoring through... 
@ gordimhor, that's exactly what that chap in the first photo did!
This is why I ride round puddles now....
my dog goes round puddles too ! does that make him a twonk ??? 
if i can see the bottom or know the route well enough to (hopefully) assume correctly that its not going to be 4ft deep and swimming with crocs... i'll ride through and use it as an opportunity to clean the tyres.
if i dont know the trail or it looks like there might be crocs i'll ride around it, but i try and ride so i'm riding in the side of the puddle (a couple of inches deep) so i'm still in the puddle but not making it wider.
a mate bunny hops into every puddle and i've swallowed so much puddle water from his antics that he's close to loosing a riding buddy haha
I ride through my local puddles because I know whats in there, sometimes round and sometimes through ones I find on other rides. Depends on how much 4wd use it looks like they get or the state of the walls / trees beside them incase it gives any clue as to whats lurking. Nothing puts a downer on a ride like a tank trap bath.
What's all this about 'erosion'?
I mean, I appreciate that we should all be respectful to nature and that, cause as little damage as possible etc, but I'm just curious as to what real damage riding round a puddle actually does?
Depends on how many people do it. Before the re-build the lower part of Cut Gate was getting ridden upto 30m off the main bridleway line.
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