Dirtbike

With a high res camera it would be an awesome shot. If it is composed well enough maybe it could be a pinkbike photo of the day.

MadMan2k

Pinkbike's standards aren't the highest... they can't be, they have to choose one every day, and a lot of people seem to upload many fairly pointless and/or crappy pictures.

phantomcow2

i dont know how ide ever take pics of me actually going. I usually ride solo, sometimes with others but usually all by my lonesome. I could try to use that timer, i think it has a timer so that it takes a pic in X amount of seconds

RdHrd138

Yea..... I just try to lift my front end over the water and hope it's not to deep...

-=(8)=-

Sometimes you just have to walk or, ummmm........cyclocross ! Yeah thats the ticket...cyclocross !
On motorcycles or bicycles I havent found a way to go across moss covered rocks
without getting your feet wet or falling. I have a stream like this right outside my front door
for practice and Ive come to the conclusion it just cant be done. Not with these rocks
anyway.

jeff williams

What do you mean 'dragging' the bike? Put it on your shoulder and walk with some aspect of ballance on slippy stuff.
I climb around with my bike on my shoulder sometimes. If I have to hike my frame I pre-ride hockey tape the toptube and put a little foam strip down the underside of the tube where it rests on my shoulder.

Drill holes in your shoes so the water can drain out. Or ride in jungle combat boots -they have the holes already -and they are hard for the rattlesnakes to bite through...

...what the hell am I talking about...oh ya, I just bite down on the toptube and swim across the river usually....damn currents fast in the mountains.

In the marshes watch out for the gators. Use the bike as a shield between you and the gator, unsheath your hunting knife.....

Maelstrom 

Thats how I handle it too. I generally plow through. Or with permission, a bridge eventually goes up

bcspain

I was working support for a mountain bike race once (ham radio operator) at a check point near a stream crossing. This crossing was actually at a low water crossing that cars used all the time, but in this particular instance the road was flooded to a depth of about 2 feet. The race was in February, and the air temperature was about 23 degrees. Water temperature was about 40 degrees. The riders would come flying down a hill on the other side, and most of them would hit the water at about 30 mph. When they would pass me, they would have ice crystals flying off of them. Every once in a while though, a rider would miss the low water slab, and fall in the deep water, about 4-5 feet on the upstream side and 3-4 feet on the down stream side. On the deep side, most of them would just disappear from view. They'd come back up coughing, sputtering and cussing, tread across the stream, get back on the bike and take off like nothing had happened. One guy stayed down long enough though that I had radioed for help and had the throw bag out by the time he re-emerged from the water. He spent a little time in my truck warming back up and changing into dry clothes before I let him continue.

phantomcow2

Do you think i should just make my bridge using a few stiff boards parallel to eachother? Keep it basic, have them screwed down to boards giving it altitude?


_________________
/| |\
/ | ~~~~~~~~~~~ | \
except not so steep an incline

Dirtbike

Maybe you should make a NS style ladder that you can move out of the way when you are done.

MadMan2k

Get a long section of pipe about 6" diameter, cut it into several 4 foot-ish sections. Put those in the stream and cover them with rocks and dirt and such, build it up enough to be raised above the water but still let water flow through the pipes. That might work out pretty well, but it's a lot of work, and costs money..

jekyllrider

I make this one about half the time. (I know it is hard on my components but I just can't tiptoe across the rocks if I know I can ride it) Just get in a gear you have power in like granny in the front and 3 down in the rear and grind through it.