Are you sensible if you walk your bike across streams?

**gav24** · 11th February 2011, 18:59

Originally Posted by bart

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 !

**bart** · 11th February 2011, 19:22

Originally Posted by gav24

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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**Waihou Thumper** · 11th February 2011, 19:48

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......
Most importantly, if there is a camera on the other side (Nordie or similar, lurking.....) Cane it and be famous...Boo Ya!

**buggsubique** · 11th February 2011, 20:11

If I make it across I was being sensible. If I don't make it, I shoulda been more sensibilla.

**Waihou Thumper** · 11th February 2011, 20:13

Originally Posted by buggsubique

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!

**Night Falcon** · 11th February 2011, 20:19

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

I walked this first...

....Proof that DR's are too heavy

**JATZ** · 11th February 2011, 20:19

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

**bart** · 11th February 2011, 20:22

Originally Posted by Night Falcon

....Proof that DR's are too heavy

Hahaha....best laugh I've had in a while.

**DEATH_INC.** · 11th February 2011, 22:30

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

Oh yeh, an '82 XT250 (my brothers

) is a bloody submarine...

**Howie** · 11th February 2011, 22:35

[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.