Author Topic: Technically not a Darwin award but............ (Read 6317 times)

redrider90 · « **on:** October 04, 2015, 09:53:45 AM »

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!)

canuguzzi · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2015, 09:57:25 AM »

What's so wrong about a water cooled bike, rider and clothes?

oldbike54 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2015, 09:58:14 AM »

Can't say much having done almost the same thing on the /5 :laugh

Dusty

rodekyll · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2015, 12:26:16 PM »

BTDT. Sometimes it's the only way to get there from here.

Wildguzzi.com · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2015, 12:26:16 PM »

Nic in Western NYS · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2015, 12:48:15 PM »

probably with a corded rear tire...

Arizona Wayne · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2015, 01:01:43 PM »

Having done a bit of that..............I don't recommend it.

Lannis · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2015, 01:34:20 PM »

Was down at the beach on the Chesapeake Bay a few years ago ... a guy came down the beach on a Bultaco Matador, rode through about a foot of water to a sandbar, then rode off the other end of the sandbar toward the beach into about 3 feet of water. He was standing on the pegs and I could not see ANY of the bike but the handlebars, the tank, and the top of the seat. The enduro air intake must have been way high up just under the seat, because he motored on through (well, what else can you do?) and gradually came up out of the water onto the beach and rode away .....

This is sea water, too, I wouldn't want to have bought THAT bike without knowing a little history ... !

Lannis

pikipiki · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2015, 02:09:39 PM »

Or possibly after enough time evolved into
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2e/b6/06/2eb606d196c2ef4d3f305baacbc6efdf.jpg

Tobit · « **Reply #8 on:** October 04, 2015, 05:36:30 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOoy7_l2EbI

Arizona Wayne · « **Reply #9 on:** October 04, 2015, 06:54:15 PM »

PRICELESS !!!!!

................... ........Some just gotta find out................ .

Dogwalker · « **Reply #10 on:** October 05, 2015, 04:24:22 AM »

Quote from: redrider90 on October 04, 2015, 09:53:45 AM

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

redrider90 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 05, 2015, 01:20:51 PM »

Quote from: Dogwalker on October 05, 2015, 04:24:22 AM

There is the "who knows" and the certainty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF0gvh4_38&feature=g-vrec&context=G2712629RVAAAAAAAABQ

Keep em coming guys.

redrider90 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 05, 2015, 01:39:14 PM »

Quote from: redrider90 on October 04, 2015, 09:53:45 AM

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.

Lannis · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2015, 01:43:05 PM »

Quote from: Dogwalker on October 05, 2015, 04:24:22 AM

There is the "who knows" and the certainty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF0gvh4_38&feature=g-vrec&context=G2712629RVAAAAAAAABQ

THERE's a human male for you!

1) We never ask directions.

2) We never backtrack to correct a mistake. ALWAYS forward!!

Lannis

Kev m · « **Reply #14 on:** October 05, 2015, 01:48:34 PM »

Dogwalker · « **Reply #15 on:** October 06, 2015, 03:32:51 AM »

Quote from: Lannis on October 05, 2015, 01:43:05 PM

THERE's a human male for you!

1) We never ask directions.

2) We never backtrack to correct a mistake. ALWAYS forward!!

Lannis

That's the way he was told to face a ford: "straight forward, without fear!"

Note that the engine switched off a first time, probably when the water impregnated the filter, and the engine was still safe at that point.
To be sure to have the water flood the cylinders and destroy the mechanics, he turned it on again.

Cam3512 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:09:40 AM »

There's always another way.

TURN AROUND DUMB-ASS!

Hahnda · « **Reply #17 on:** October 06, 2015, 10:30:13 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgxv8WqEU2o

Lannis · « **Reply #18 on:** October 06, 2015, 12:24:17 PM »

Quote from: Hahnda on October 06, 2015, 10:30:13 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgxv8WqEU2o

How is that even possible? Where's the air intake on those things?

Lannis

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #19 on:** October 06, 2015, 12:30:25 PM »

I've done similar in running water when the creeks up. But I was on a BULTACO

Lannis · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2015, 12:32:51 PM »

Quote from: Guzzistajohn on October 06, 2015, 12:30:25 PM

I've done similar in running water when the creeks up. But I was on a BULTACO

I've watched a Bultaco do it. But the water on these Urals was over the seat ....

Them Russians are all crazy anyway .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTDn604ipYY

Lannis

Triple Jim · « **Reply #21 on:** October 06, 2015, 01:45:18 PM »

The Ural river crossing is probably part of the Russian motorcycle license exam.

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #22 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:49:28 PM »

Quote from: Guzzistajohn on October 06, 2015, 12:30:25 PM

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.

Lannis · « **Reply #23 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:52:47 PM »

Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on October 06, 2015, 04:49:28 PM

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 ...

Still, they ARE good for that sort of thing!!

What I don't understand is how the old airliner engines (DC-3 and that era) would keep running in some of the storms they would fly through because they couldn't see them on radar. Some of those storms are solid water .....

Lannis

Lannis

Triple Jim · « **Reply #24 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:54:42 PM »

Quote from: Lannis on October 06, 2015, 04:52:47 PM

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 ...

It doesn't take as much as you think. An ounce is enough to bend a rod if it gets pumped up to the combustion chamber and the piston tries to compress it.

fatbob · « **Reply #25 on:** October 06, 2015, 09:05:13 PM »

I had to do that on my Norge in 2013 after a flash flood in Palm Desert, CA. Went through a dozen intersections like that, water right at the footpegs. Crazy.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #26 on:** October 06, 2015, 11:54:37 PM »

Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on October 06, 2015, 04:49:28 PM

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.

Yep chuckle those Buls were built-to-go flash floods can come up in a hurry in the ozark hollers. Pumped water outa bunches of Buls and Pentons back in the day. Couple of kicks a cough, maybe a sputter or two grab a gear and head for higher ground wooooohooooo!

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