I don't remember whether I heard or read this bit of advice: Never ride through water if you can't see the bottom.
I'm sure most of you have heard something similar, perhaps in a parental lecture. Yet, I'm sure most of you have gone against that admonition at some time or another. I know I have on numerous occasions, with and without fenders and raingear.
It's almost inevitable that you'll ride through some inundated pothole, or slosh through some area where water has backed up because of a stopped or overflowing drain, especially if you use your bike as a vehicle after a storm like Sandy or the Nor'easter that's raging up this way. If you've spent any amount of time riding off-road--especially if you ride cyclo-cross or cross-country, as I did--you're almost certain to slice across a stream or muck your way through a marshy area. And you more than likely won't know what you've gotten yourself into until you're soaked or covered with mud!
A British cyclist in the Lake District took the challenge of riding through a (visually, anyway) bottomless body of water. Sixteen-year-old Matt Whitehurst claims he rode across 75 foot-deep Lake Buttermere last July.
He claims that Photoshop was not involved in any way, shape or form.
What's that lump under his rear tire? Could he be on the back (or head) of the Loch Ness Monster? Hmm...If that's the case, does his feat qualify as cycling--or surfing?
I'm sure most of you have heard something similar, perhaps in a parental lecture. Yet, I'm sure most of you have gone against that admonition at some time or another. I know I have on numerous occasions, with and without fenders and raingear.
It's almost inevitable that you'll ride through some inundated pothole, or slosh through some area where water has backed up because of a stopped or overflowing drain, especially if you use your bike as a vehicle after a storm like Sandy or the Nor'easter that's raging up this way. If you've spent any amount of time riding off-road--especially if you ride cyclo-cross or cross-country, as I did--you're almost certain to slice across a stream or muck your way through a marshy area. And you more than likely won't know what you've gotten yourself into until you're soaked or covered with mud!
A British cyclist in the Lake District took the challenge of riding through a (visually, anyway) bottomless body of water. Sixteen-year-old Matt Whitehurst claims he rode across 75 foot-deep Lake Buttermere last July.
He claims that Photoshop was not involved in any way, shape or form.
What's that lump under his rear tire? Could he be on the back (or head) of the Loch Ness Monster? Hmm...If that's the case, does his feat qualify as cycling--or surfing?
