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Alright this is technically not a Darwin award but this one qualifies as a gem among men. Who knows if he maybe hit a pot hole after this photo and sucked in enough flood water to hydraulic the cylinders and it became a Darwin award post photo. (I a person who hydraulic a fairly new HD back in 73 after trying to drive it through a flooded creek. Pulled the jugs right off the engine block!)
There is the "who knows" and the certainty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF0gvh4_38&feature=g-vrec&context=G2712629RVAAAAAAAABQ
Alright this is technically not a Darwin award but this one qualifies as a gem among men. Who knows if he maybe hit a pot hole after this photo and sucked in enough flood water to hydraulic the cylinders and it became a Darwin award post photo. (I a person who hydraulic a fairly new HD back in 73 after trying to drive it through a flooded creek. Pulled the jugs right off the engine block!)Alright confession time here and heck here I am the OP. Back in the mid 1970's I drove a rural propane truck out of Effingham Il. Now I knew every nook and cranny in every road paved and unpaved for a 30 mile radius. So I come upon a small bridge on a paved very rural road. I could see how deep the water was and I am driving a Ford truck. I figured that the water was about 3 feet deep and I was correct on that one. So I said shoot I am not driving 10 miles out of my way. I have plenty of room in the engine compartment so I head into the water and sure enough I make it through with a smile of my face. I get about a mile down the road the and the sucker overheats on me. I pop the cab and look. To my astonishment I see that the radiator had been scraped through the fins and dug open the copper tubing. I go oh oh. I realize what I had done. As I drove through the water it came up high enough and caught the fan blades and twisted them hence they scraped right through the radiator. I gotta figure what to tell the boss man. So I decided to play stupid. I find a phone and call in. Paul I gotta problem as i am overheated down here on whatever road it was. So he calls in a truck and brings it back to the shop. He pops the hood and he goes WTF? is this. How did you do this? I go I dunno Paul it just happened. He went off like a bomb and was pissed real bad and accused me of over revving the engine hence the fan blades twisted and took out the radiator. I said no way did I drive like that Paul but he has no idea about he creek so he thinks how else could you destroy and twist fan blades out of shape. Anyhow I didn't loose my job but the story is stupid enough to belong on this thread.
THERE's a human male for you!1) We never ask directions.2) We never backtrack to correct a mistake. ALWAYS forward!! Lannis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgxv8WqEU2o
I've done similar in running water when the creeks up. But I was on a BULTACO
I was doing an enduro on a Matador when I hit a greasy log just right.. or wrong.. did a spectacular get off, naturally. The Bull continued flight without me and went totally under in the river next to the trail. It was still running as it went under. (!!) No damage. (!!!) Pulled it out with much help, sat it upside down like a bicycle, pulled the plug and pumped the water out of it. Finished the ride.. (!) Those things were unbreakable.
I expect that two-strokes are a different deal underwater. Water would have to fill up the crankcase before you'd hydro-lock it, not just a few CCs get sucked into a cylinder ...