Author Topic: Fords  (Read 96014 times)

iddu

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Re: Fords
« Reply #25 on: 02 October, 2011, 10:21:37 pm »


That's nasty :D



About 75cm deep in the middle. No way, José...
I'd offer you some moral support - but I have questionable morals.

PH

Re: Fords
« Reply #26 on: 02 October, 2011, 11:30:44 pm »
Doesn't really meet the criteria as they're not cycling.  Crossing the Avon in Little Lawford, the sign on the approach says not suitable for light vehicles, luckily it was in a dry spell. It makes it more of a challenge that you can't see the exit from the entry.  Apologies for the photo quality, 2mp used to seem such a lot.

PH

Re: Fords
« Reply #27 on: 02 October, 2011, 11:51:31 pm »
This one even further from the criteria, though I had just ridden through it (And walked back over the out of shot footbridge) and you can just see my bike.

iddu

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Re: Fords
« Reply #28 on: 02 October, 2011, 11:57:02 pm »
Doesn't really meet the criteria as they're not cycling. 

No, and at that depth I'm not likely to; dumb I may be, stoopid I ain't ;)

Just to atone.


Choose your own line - somewhere in the Mongolian Outback ;D
I'd offer you some moral support - but I have questionable morals.

PH

Re: Fords
« Reply #29 on: 03 October, 2011, 12:02:33 am »
Doesn't really meet the criteria as they're not cycling. 

No, and at that depth I'm not likely to; dumb I may be, stoopid I ain't ;)


Yes I understood No way, José... though I was referring to my photo rather than yours.

iddu

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Re: Fords
« Reply #30 on: 03 October, 2011, 12:12:36 am »
...though I was referring to my photo rather than yours.

So, colour me stoopid :)

I'd offer you some moral support - but I have questionable morals.

iddu

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Re: Fords
« Reply #31 on: 03 October, 2011, 12:13:15 am »
And closer to home...


The Gower Outback.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fords
« Reply #32 on: 05 October, 2011, 12:35:54 pm »
Some great photos in this thread.

About 75cm deep in the middle. No way, José...
I'm wondering what is the deepest ford that people would consider riding through? Mr Charly mentions riding through one that was over the top of his wheels!

And does it make a difference whether it's a proper ford or a flooded road? IMO it does, I would be more likely to ride through a flooded road as the water is not running and there's (I think) less likelihood of submerged objects and slippery bottom.
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clarion

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Re: Fords
« Reply #33 on: 05 October, 2011, 12:47:29 pm »
Deepest I have managed to ride through was a little bit above my BB.  I got most of the way through one which reached to the top of the pedal stroke, but the resistance was too much and I ground to a halt. 

I don't think my bike's moving parts were happy about either of those.

I tend to avoid riding through fords if at all possible.
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Riggers

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Re: Fords
« Reply #34 on: 05 October, 2011, 01:16:24 pm »
Clarrers? Does BB stand for Ball Bearers?
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Re: Fords
« Reply #35 on: 05 October, 2011, 01:26:09 pm »
Some great photos in this thread.

About 75cm deep in the middle. No way, José...
I'm wondering what is the deepest ford that people would consider riding through? Mr Charly mentions riding through one that was over the top of his wheels!

And does it make a difference whether it's a proper ford or a flooded road? IMO it does, I would be more likely to ride through a flooded road as the water is not running and there's (I think) less likelihood of submerged objects and slippery bottom.
The deepest I've ridden through was over the top tube of my bike.
I lived on a boat moored to a raised bit of bank. The access road crossed a floodplain and was considerably lower than the actual bank. If I expected a flood, I'd drag a canoe across the floodplain and tie it up, but sometimes I was caught unawares and came home to find the road covered. Set off across it once with trailer on the back - the trailer had a solid plastic crate in it, so I tied that down to the trailer frame - the trailer floated. It was very hard work pedaling through such deep water.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fords
« Reply #36 on: 05 October, 2011, 01:30:02 pm »
Mr Charly, do you have webbed feet and gills?  :)

I think up to the BB (bottom brackers, as Riggers would say) would be the limit for me, and even then I'd be wary.
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Re: Fords
« Reply #37 on: 05 October, 2011, 01:52:19 pm »
I was a boat dweller and home was the other side of that water!

My feet aren't webbed, but they are hairy.
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Re: Fords
« Reply #38 on: 05 October, 2011, 05:17:32 pm »
The River Cam (or Granta) at Hinxton.


Riggers

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Re: Fords
« Reply #39 on: 06 October, 2011, 09:09:36 am »
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

nicknack

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Re: Fords
« Reply #40 on: 06 October, 2011, 11:27:24 am »
 ;D

Nice one Riggers.
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Re: Fords
« Reply #41 on: 08 October, 2011, 06:52:35 pm »
Some great photos in this thread.

About 75cm deep in the middle. No way, José...
I'm wondering what is the deepest ford that people would consider riding through? Mr Charly mentions riding through one that was over the top of his wheels!

And does it make a difference whether it's a proper ford or a flooded road? IMO it does, I would be more likely to ride through a flooded road as the water is not running and there's (I think) less likelihood of submerged objects and slippery bottom.

I've been through one that looked ok but turned out to be top tube depth.

I was ok until the bike hit a rock and stopped...

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fords
« Reply #42 on: 08 October, 2011, 10:54:53 pm »
Ouch! Splosh!
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iddu

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Re: Fords
« Reply #43 on: 09 October, 2011, 10:03:17 pm »
And does it make a difference whether it's a proper ford or a flooded road? IMO it does, I would be more likely to ride through a flooded road as the water is not running and there's (I think) less likelihood of submerged objects and slippery bottom.

Great Brook, Oxon

Fine until you get halfway along and suddenly recall, as yer nadgers get an imprompteau wash :o (56cm frame, 700c's), that the road dips some additional two feet between culverts :)

Funniest thing was getting to the Buckland Rd end, and some some geezer in a Subaru estate asked if they could get through; we told 'im to go round via Aston, and the dork promptly tried driving it across the field to the south. Fair do's - he got halfway before he totally trashed it :thumbsup:
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Re: Fords
« Reply #44 on: 10 October, 2011, 04:41:52 pm »
Here's one of someone attempting Shilton ford Oxon..Most kids from the area have tried this as a right of passage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdrVt77CTc&list=FLBIc-UHSn3rNTZNl0XyyurQ&index=28

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fords
« Reply #45 on: 10 October, 2011, 06:39:22 pm »
Ow! Crazy fellow!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fords
« Reply #47 on: 12 October, 2011, 08:57:03 pm »
I like that one, Barlaston Downs. It looks like even I could happily ride through it.  :)
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jogler

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Re: Fords
« Reply #48 on: 12 October, 2011, 09:35:53 pm »
I wouldn't  :hand: it is very slippy,concave & cobbled.It's very easy to go arseoverapex just walking through it.
For many years that footbridge was but a well worn plank :o

citoyen

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Re: Fords
« Reply #49 on: 12 October, 2011, 10:32:06 pm »
I took this picture shortly before I rode through it:


There are also a few pics of me riding through assorted fords on audaxes, on fixed, all taken by Mrs Cyklisten - it's become a bit of a running joke. Unfortunately, I can't find any of them.

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