Hi Eddie, I forgot to mention, I'll ride in any weather and any conditions.
So do I.
If you fancy some mud and water, I reckon that I know just the place. It is somewhere that we used to ride as teenagers, but the land was sold a number of years ago, and we then stopped riding it. Over the years I've got to know the current owner, and this thread has prompted my memory of the place. It had never even occurred to me to think about riding there again.
The hub drive is a little restrictive, and I don't fancy having to have a third motor, but if one of my mates is up for it, I might even be able to borrow a mid drive bike, so that we could test the 'real' swimming capabilities of both bikes. But if I can't, I'll happily take some photos or film of you swimming through it.
I'll check the access and depth over the next week or so, but I would imagine that if your bike was upright instead of laying over, that the water would be up to roughly the same point of the chainwheel as it is in the photo. It's a concrete bottomed culvert so no chance of getting bogged down, and it's approx half a mile long. The stream before and after it are also great fun to ride, but this can get a bit rocky in places, and I tend to leave riding that until the summer months. It should prove a good test, especially if it's raining, and as Martin has stated, "
Not a problem, it is a mountain bike at the end of the day and should handle these conditions"...
Thinking about this even further, the land concerned is very wooded and is both over and besides the top of a railway tunnel. It also has some of the steepest imaginable banks, so perhaps we could take a look at those as well. I'm not sure that my balls are big enough to tackle them, but I'd be up for taking a look.
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