Bob Kelly III
Ranch Kid from way back,.... that got Old !
My brother in law and I did allot of bike riding together out in the wild with no roads at all , we were heading accross country one time seeing if we could get to a main road a good 8 miles away through woods, farm land and creeks
we gave up on that idea as there were too many fences and we knew the owner and didn't want to cut them and re patch the fence..so we headed back... in the way there though we crossed a large creek no problem on the 250 trials bikes the water barely came up to the engine guard..... on the way back home though we took a more northerly path back and came up on the same creek it was allot skinnier here with swifter water, being dumb we decide to cross at where the water had the smoothest place....before the rapids so to speak....
well I head across first and the water went up over the transmission and I got hung up on a few boulders.... Lonnie was next after we hauled me out..... he decides to move up stream about 2 feet to miss that big bolder and he eases into it nice and gentle and he just keeps going down and down, and down till the bike quits and he is in chest deep water and his eyes are as big as saucers ! I was laughing so hard I fell down !
he says, well this ain't the spot either ! we literally had to carry the bike by hand the rest of the way across the creek
..... we tried to start the bike but there was no way.... so I had a rope with me and towed him back home from there
we learned years before the "Don't tie the bike to the rope" trick but it is not an easy task to tow another bike from a bike on rough terrain
we wound up on the ground more than once getting back home !
so we learned that day Do not ride into the water unless you know How deep it is ! ..... you wouldn't have thought that we couldn't figure that out before hand but those bikes would do anything ! ....except run under water as we found out ! .....
I still shake my head and chuckle, when I think of that and Lonnies EYES real big like OOOOOOH Shit !!!!!!!
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Bob........
we gave up on that idea as there were too many fences and we knew the owner and didn't want to cut them and re patch the fence..so we headed back... in the way there though we crossed a large creek no problem on the 250 trials bikes the water barely came up to the engine guard..... on the way back home though we took a more northerly path back and came up on the same creek it was allot skinnier here with swifter water, being dumb we decide to cross at where the water had the smoothest place....before the rapids so to speak....
well I head across first and the water went up over the transmission and I got hung up on a few boulders.... Lonnie was next after we hauled me out..... he decides to move up stream about 2 feet to miss that big bolder and he eases into it nice and gentle and he just keeps going down and down, and down till the bike quits and he is in chest deep water and his eyes are as big as saucers ! I was laughing so hard I fell down !
he says, well this ain't the spot either ! we literally had to carry the bike by hand the rest of the way across the creek
..... we tried to start the bike but there was no way.... so I had a rope with me and towed him back home from there
we learned years before the "Don't tie the bike to the rope" trick but it is not an easy task to tow another bike from a bike on rough terrain
we wound up on the ground more than once getting back home !
so we learned that day Do not ride into the water unless you know How deep it is ! ..... you wouldn't have thought that we couldn't figure that out before hand but those bikes would do anything ! ....except run under water as we found out ! .....
I still shake my head and chuckle, when I think of that and Lonnies EYES real big like OOOOOOH Shit !!!!!!!
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Bob........