On 9/14/2018 11:33 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 1:08:27 PM UTC-7, David Scheidt wrote:
jbeattie wrote:

:I rode home last night in a torrential downpour. In one place, my pedals were under water. True Old Testament commute -- or the MidWest. Keeping any lubricant on the chain in that kind of weather is almost impossible.

This was my commute about a month ago:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkB69POWsAA--a-.jpg

If both pedals aren't subrmerged at the same time, it's not
torrential.

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I don't have a drain hole in my BB, so if I get into water that deep, I have to pull the crank and shake out the water. On a stupid whim, I rode a fully submerged MUP that had been inundated by the Willamette River. I was almost swimming in one place. I had to drop the fork and dry out the headset. This spot (bad picture) http://bikeportland.org/wp-content/u...riverpoint.jpg When dry: https://tinyurl.com/ybcl99kp looking from the other direction: https://tinyurl.com/y8vpq944 The river is avoidable. Some of the street lakes aren't, but the inch-an-hour type rainfall is a rarity. This is not NC.

I normally won't do deep water on a road. I'd be too worried about
unseen holes, etc. I've crossed streams with a mountain bike, but never
more than about 6" deep, IIRC.

On one tour (Ireland, the wettest experience of my cycling life) we had
no alternative but to ride a flooded portion of road. The water was
maybe 6" deep, not quite up to our bottom brackets. I sort of
ratchet-pedaled across, keeping my feet dry. My wife and daughter just
cranked through it and laughed about it.


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