water crossings

[MacP]

www.UKGSer.com has a GPS file of the wetroads locations for download.

If anyones up for some splashing around London (Essex has a good selection!) give me a shout!

Cheers
-Simon

I take it that they're on there so that the GS crowd can keep the bikes clean....
(Saucer of milk for Macp - I'm onlty jealous as at least BMW are producing new machines and developing the product! :D )

[Slimie]

www.UKGSer.com has a GPS file of the wetroads locations for download.

If anyones up for some splashing around London (Essex has a good selection!) give me a shout!

Cheers
-Simon

[Splash]

Here it is!! www.wetroads.co.uk. Enjoy :D

[Simon]

someone a while ago posted a link of a site listing water crossings in UK and Ireland. I've tried looking for it but can't find it yet. Can anyone help?

thanks


Update- just found it

http://vamp.idlers.org/~jaffa/

[fewtrees]

It was me and I couldn't remember either :shock:

[samwise]

Woohoo, I just did this one tonight

http://vamp.idlers.org/~jaffa/images/glenmooar1.jpg

And yes, it is pretty fast flowing - and the climb out (where the photographer is standing) is interesting - rough and damp to start with, then it's a road about Ford Focus width, with two car tyre strips of tarmac at the edges and grass in between. Very narrow and windy :D

[Maverick]

It was this thread (http://www.xrv.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3343&highlight=ford) but see you have found it again Simon.....

[Austin]

This one is in Garstang - where I live. I have seen land rovers in it in the summer and a Farmers tractor up to the cab in winter. Depth depends on what has happened to the gravel, but last year my kids were swimming and diving into an effing big hole near the entrance/exit.

I will pay to watch a TA or AT have a go :shock:

[i]Garstang
[i]Garstang
SD498462 (5*) Off-Roaders Only!
Sent in by John Brown (20/01/2003)

'This must be a contender for the most fearsome monster officially designated as a ford. I approached from the northern end of Garstang town down the obscure Wyre Lane. I soon saw the high footbridge, and then a muddy but clearly well used track dropping down into the 40ft wide and fast flowing River Wyre. (Image 1)

But there was no sign of an exit ramp, so I abandoned ship and went on foot in search of it. From the bridge, there was still no clear indication in either direction...(Image 2 Mouseover sent in by Ken Wales, 05/02/2006)

... so I followed the footpath downstream, pacing out about 120yds until I came to another muddy but still well used ramp (Image 3: it's about 10yds this side of the white sign visible in the view from the bridge)

Although I was in a high 4x4 that is well used to fording South American rivers, I'm afraid that, being on my own, I chickened out of this one! Later, on the eastern approach, I came across this old sign - good Lancashire understatement! (Image 4)'

Account sent in by Dave Bamber
'I gave it a go as we have had very little rain recently and river levels are low. I started on the opposite side to Garstang after a quick recce on foot, from the bank and over the footbridge. I estimated the depth at my start point to be about 7 inchs, once past this, the river bed is exposed and just damp. I headed for the left bank, Garstang side, as it seemed the shallower option, well shallower but still about 8-9 inchs. I didn't stop to measure! I turned round and had and other go, and then another! The last run scared me as I stayed more in the centre of the river at the Garstang exit and it went a bit deep, like up to the wheel centre of my Land Rover (13inchs!!) I got through ok though and lived to tell the tail. I wouldn't recommend doing this one with much more water and a stronger current, or a snorkel.'

'On the Garstang side of the ford there is a safety line painted on the foot bridge foundation, allthough I have been through the ford with water well over the top of my wheels, (Frontera) I would not recomend it, I have seen this river in very wet weather eith the water level at the top of the entrance ramp!!!' Pete ?

'Don't approach the garstang exit from downstream but at 90 degrees from the river centre, the water came up onto the windscreen.' Ken Wales

[Simon]

i was hoping to find some in Northern Ireland but there aren't many about here. :cry:

[JB1]

i was hoping to find some in Northern Ireland but there aren't many about here. :cry:

I think there's one right in the middle of the province. Think it's called something like The Neagh puddle. Would be interested to see you cross it.

[jvaughan]

There used to be a good one in Newbury Berks ... Just behind Chievely Services on a BOAT called "Chalky Lane".
Many Farmers and 4x4's had damaged the lane to the point they had broken though to a natural spring. the result was 6ft of water for aprox 50 meters... went down in a modified 4x4 with snorkel. Quite frightening when you see the water above the bonnet and half way up the front screen.

The lane damage recieved lots of bad press both locally and nationally, and was initially attributed to moto-x bikes (same as the Ridgeway)

[Simon]

i was hoping to find some in Northern Ireland but there aren't many about here. :cry:

I think there's one right in the middle of the province. Think it's called something like The Neagh puddle. Would be interested to see you cross it.

That would be the largest lake in the UK? Don't think i could cross that at the moment, but i have heard that one year a long time ago it did freeze over and people road their horse and carts across it!

[jvaughan]

if it was in the south of england, you could ride though it. Most Lakes and resevoirs in the south are virtually dry at present. hence the Hosepipe ban they have just introduced :)