Avoid puddles

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  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    There but for the grace of god...
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    There but for the grace of god...
    And that's why you pop a manual or at least shift your weight back as you enter a puddle.
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Initialised wrote:
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    There but for the grace of god...
    And that's why you pop a manual or at least shift your weight back as you enter a puddle.
    Pop a manual?

    Que?
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Wheelie
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  • on-yer-bike
    on-yer-bike Posts: 2,974
    The road actually looks marginally worse than Kent roads.
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  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    I did exactly that in December 2013 on an unlit country road in the dark (I was using quite powerful lights as well). Didn't know anything about it but must have gone right over the bars and broke my clavicle and elbow.

    The thing was I saw the puddle but just caught the edge and must have slipped into the abyss. The hole, as it turned out was about 1m across and 125mm deep.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    hypster wrote:
    The thing was I saw the puddle but just caught the edge and must have slipped into the abyss. The hole, as it turned out was about 1m across and 125mm deep.

    If only it had been about 124mm deep you'd have been fine!
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  • kamil1891
    kamil1891 Posts: 658
    Polish roads... :lol:
  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    Rolf F wrote:
    hypster wrote:
    The thing was I saw the puddle but just caught the edge and must have slipped into the abyss. The hole, as it turned out was about 1m across and 125mm deep.

    If only it had been about 124mm deep you'd have been fine!

    I'm not sure what you mean by that. The deepest part of the hole (measured next day by a friend as I was in hospital) was at the edge where I went in. My point is you can't assume that a pothole is a regular "crater" shape with the deepest part in the middle. If it's full of water you could be at most danger just clipping the edge as I did.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    kamil1891 wrote:
    Polish roads... :lol:

    would that not just make them really slippery?
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  • chippyk
    chippyk Posts: 529
    My driving instructor told me to never drive through water as you don't know what's under it or how deep it is.

    Seems fair, there is a nice short 12-15% climb near us with a ford at the bottom, I avoid it in winter and in summer it's usually deep enough to get your feet wet at the bottom of the pedal stroke, a few weeks ago I came across a bloke who'd hit an obstacle, punctured and failed to unclip before hitting the deck. When I saw him he was soaking wet, bleeding from his head and waiting for a lift home.

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