It's really not that deep... let's go.

[ianrauk]

 

[PeteXXX]

I saw that... 😂

 

[markemark]

Funny. But if I was that desperate to pass I'd have carried my bike.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Hope they remembered not to drink from their bottles afterwards!

Looks impressive but they have pretty much trashed every bearing on their bike after that.

 

[Oldhippy]

I would have gone a different way myself.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Presumably their bikes have seal[sic] bearings?

 

[Fastpedaller]

Utter madness - if a drain cover or similar had misplaced, it could have ended really badly.

 

[markemark]

Utter madness - if a drain cover or similar had misplaced, it could have ended really badly.

I always used to think videos of people being take in small boats after a flood with a foot of water was ridiculous. Why don't you just walk?? Until someone told me a big issue was collapsed drains where people might get stuck or break a limb.

 

[Oldhippy]

I suspect done as a stunt. I don't think many cyclists out for a ride would just give it a go. I was out on country lanes I know yesterday and knew the flooded roads were a bit deep but knew roughly how deep and carried on slowly.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Did well to keep going. Wheel bearings and BB bearings and headset bearings will need a service though. I’ve learnt that the hard way about riding through too deep floods.

 

[T4tomo]

what a pair of bell ends.

 

[Alex321]

I had one of a similar depth a few weeks ago, on my commute home.

I got off and waded through, pushing the bike.

While I knew the road well enough to know there weren't any drain covers of potholes I wasn't prepared to riak catching on something that might have been washed into the flooded area. It was also dark when I hit it.

It would have added about 20 minutes to my journey to go back to the previous junction and use an alternative route from there. But I wasn't exactly ecstatic at wading through almost waist deep water in the dark.

 

[Binky]

Impressive they were able to keep riding but bloody daft I'd say. Aside from potential danger, bikes surely damaged to some extent, soaked through, cold and crappy water no doubt.
Unless there really wasn't an alternative route(unlikely) then don't see point unless they didn't know how deep and once committed just carried on.

 

[markemark]

Bikes looked light enough to be carried overhead.

 

[presta]

I won't go through anything that's deep enough to reach the bottom bracket or above, or deep enough to reach the rims if it's salt water.