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    Quote Originally Posted by bart View Post
    If it doesn't look like I'll get through on the pegs (standing), I walk mine through rivers, gently clutching it in 1st. Dabbing a foot isn't really an option when you can't touch the ground.

    I have a slight phobia with rivers though, and wet feet don't bother me.
    Usually its not as bad as you think its going to be - usually!
    Bart you have some cool river crossing photos of me from the last RRRR dont you? I remember being the test dummy about 4 times on that particular river! No one else was game in the end so I spent the rest of the day, and the next with wet feet
    Wont happen anymore though - whilst in the UK last month I picked up some crazy waterproof gore tex socks, Da-Dah !

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    Quote Originally Posted by gav24 View Post
    Usually its not as bad as you think its going to be - usually!
    Bart you have some cool river crossing photos of me from the last RRRR dont you? I remember being the test dummy about 4 times on that particular river! No one else was game in the end so I spent the rest of the day, and the next with wet feet
    Wont happen anymore though - whilst in the UK last month I picked up some crazy waterproof gore tex socks, Da-Dah !
    Here's a couple of the Gavinator....and one other

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    It aint like you can link arms and walk across as trampers do
    I agree with Ryan, as I also came from a tramping background...It is a tad bit easier to maybe assess, walk further up or down and try....
    BUT, you are on a big Frikken bike......you are limited..

    Good stories and techniques, to tell the truth, they are not too far dis-similar from trampers/hikers and hunters.....

    respect, and look for signs......
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    If I make it across I was being sensible. If I don't make it, I shoulda been more sensibilla.
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    Quote Originally Posted by buggsubique View Post
    If I make it across I was being sensible. If I don't make it, I shoulda been more sensibilla.
    Fuk! How to kill a thread.....haha, sum it up in a sentence......
    Yes, that is the sum of it aye!

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    Quote Originally Posted by NordieBoy View Post
    I walked this first...
    ....Proof that DR's are too heavy
    ....wherezz that track go

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    I'm sure Nordie has a pic of his brother crossing a small river on the TT, showing the correct technique.
    With a bit of luck he'll dig it out and post it up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Night Falcon View Post
    ....Proof that DR's are too heavy
    Hahaha....best laugh I've had in a while.
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    I've drowned a few back in the day....I use the 'when the tank goes under it's prolly too deep' method. A bit of speed helps make a bow wave that can save ya....sometimes
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    [QUOTE=bart;1129983136]Here's a couple of the Gavinator....and one other

    Here's one of Bart in the same river as Gav a few months earlier. He seems to be doing alright with charge straighht in method.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JATZ View Post
    I'm sure Nordie has a pic of his brother crossing a small river on the TT, showing the correct technique.
    With a bit of luck he'll dig it out and post it up
    Over to Mt Patriarch. The crossing by Murderers Rock on the Maungatapu.
    Saves on front tyre wear apparently.


    Uses the same technique in the 4x4...

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    Great pics!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Night Falcon View Post
    ....Proof that DR's are too heavy


    Now that's just mean.

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    How not to do it....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Oscar View Post
    How not to do it....
    Woah. Backwards!

    Cooool...

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