[Closed] canal ride

What tyres for canal riding? 😉

may I be the first to say: YOU COULD HAVE DIED! WON'T SOMEBODY CONSIDER THE CHILDREN?!?

oh, did you wear a helmet?

you stupid stupid person if you did.
but i do not think you did really.

If he had worn a helmet, the polystyrene may have kept him affloat- Even I couldnt argue with such a benefit. I'll probably have to figure this one into future arguments. 😕

yeah,I did (had to get out near bridges.will try to get a photo on,can anyone recommend a user friendly image hosting site?
there is a layer of crunchy snow over most of it,so goodish grip
did it on my old orange prestige,ss,1.5 can`t remember what tyres
out for some more tomorrow,should be even thicker.
see you out there?

Yup, I've been on the local lake, after verification that the ice was pretty thick. The canals around here have been frozen solid for 2weeks+, still not sure I'd risk it on something so deep I couldn't stand to push myself back out though. Have you ever TRIED getting out of a pool of freezing water with cramps onto a teflon-like surface that's constantly fracturing around you?

i have seen someone go through the ice on the cut [canal] you have about no chance of getting out alone without rope and help- darwin in action- very foolish.
Canals are about 4-5 ft deep the lake was probably more dangerous.

try www.imafrikkinidiot.com they may offer services you require 👿

To be serious, I also dont think its a good idea.
I've been looking at the sections of Union canal between Lithgae and Winchburgh and the ice looks pretty solid in places but there is a slow trickle of draining water from crossing bridges that looks like its keeping the ice a bit thinner in places. Dodgy.
I still remember falling through ice on Lochend pond when I was 14.
Water was only about 2ft deep but it was still a struggle to get out.

People have been doing that on parts of the Marple canal near me, can see tyre and foot prints in the snow covering the ice.
I'm going to try some XC skiing on it tomorrow - by my thinking the skis should spread the weight a lot more than a bike would so it'll be safer!

Yer the Wife

dodgy canal walker:
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Thick gloves? Does that not tell you it really isn't shorts weather?

I once rode from Mytholmroyd to Hebden Bridge on top of the ice, getting off for bridges and a lock, but i was only 14 and didnt know any better.

barnes, very nice................ 😕

it's [b]always[/b] shorts weather :o)

these girls shamed me into it:
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very grown up barnes...............egging school girls to jump up and down on a iced over waterway.........so you can take pics of them too.
tut tut tut 🙄

And you just know there's a puppy dog &/or a bag of sweeties just out of shot.....

I did a 2ft drop onto a lake which was pretty fun.

You canal walkers are nutters, darwin will have you sooner or later. 🙂

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FAIL 🙁

egging school girls to jump up and down on a iced over waterway

I just asked them if it was solid - they were jumping for another girl with a camera left of the shot...

And you just know there's a puppy dog &/or a bag of sweeties just out of shot.....

Or they've just spotted chimp-boy-barnes lurking...

I fell through the ice into Harlaw reservoir last year. Only about 2 feet deep but that was deep enough!

yeh right...........
i was just taking a picture of the mountains when the lady with the nice ar5e rode into the shot..............
yeah right................ 🙄

actual canal rider:
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i was just taking a picture of the mountains when the lady with the nice ar5e rode into the shot..............

I would have no hesitation in that context but with children one should be more careful for everyone's sake, and my shots are entirely innocent.

[and I tested the ice by jumping up and down as hard as I could - no hint of movement]

Aged man in shorts, telephoto lens, schoolgirls - not sounding good......

🙄 😉

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failed again!

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Keep trying

Sadly tonight two men where pulled from a lake in leicestershire,seriously tieing up a lot of resourses, Police,fire brigade and ambulance,hospital staff and now the coroner as they died.

Dont do it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Dont do it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the difference being that the canal had experienced uniform conditions and been frozen for a week, whereas a lake would be much more unpredictable

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8449250.stm

simon, you do talk like a t wat sometimes.
IF YOU FALL THRU ICE INTO VERY COLD WATER CHANCES ARE YOU WILL DIE.

FFS get a grip - canals freeze. When they get strong enough to walk on you can walk on them. For a bunch of sporty types I have never heard such a bunch of wusses!

teej, don't spoil the baiting ffs........ 😉

'what helmet for canal riding'......

IF YOU FALL THRU ICE INTO VERY COLD WATER CHANCES ARE YOU WILL DIE

so make sure it's safe first 🙂 Plus except in the middle the water is shallow enough for me to stand with my head above the surface!

I know it looks solid enough, but, lead by example and all of that.

Me falling into the water is stupidity on my part, but any one else seeing me do it may do the same, 'accidents' (said in the loosest possible sense) do happen. And I don't know if i could deal with knowing someone else had fallen through.

Carry out a risk assessment, do some core-drill samples to confirm depth of ice, write to your MP, ring the EU people up to sort it out and then you can do it.

Now go and sit on the naughty step while you think about it.

f*ck drowning for a lark.

barns, and your shorts look like you have soiled them, and are by far the worst colour for a pair of shorts i have ever seen........ 😀

your shorts look like you have soiled them, and are by far the worst colour for a pair of shorts i have ever seen.

weighty advice from such a clued up fashion guru 🙂

shall I wear the yellow ones next time ?

-10 for the shorts but +3 for the best "not a peado" excuse of the year (so far) 😀

Never wear a pair of speedo's if the the "S" has worn off. Nothing to do with this thread but the photo of SB in those shorts and the last post made me think of it.

Never wear a pair of speedo's if the the "S" has worn off

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i fell in the canal once first time i had ever worn toe clips and the last 😥

[url= http://www.chilloutzone.to/video/fleischgewordener-eisbrecher.html ]falling through ice....[/url]

barnes, you're weird.

falling through ice....

very funny, but even Blobzilla there wouldn't have gone through the canal I was on 🙂 The ice in the movie is wet and obviously translucent...

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[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8449250.stm ]2 brothers die after falling through the ice. Sympathy? Thought not.[/url]

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You have been warned!

Ti29er - Have I missed something? Theres damn all ice in that photo. You'd be pretty daft to try cycling on that? But maybe it a question of tyres?

2 brothers die after falling through the ice. Sympathy? Thought not.

well it's a shame when a nice frosty walk turns into tragedy 🙁

The canal is not as frozen as you might think.
In places here it is, then it's not 300m away, then frozen again.
Don't assume a thing.
I believed the canal was frozen solid. I was wrong.
Thank fully I had no desire to ride or walk on it to test the depth of ice.

[u]The BBC Link:[/u]
Simon, no doubting it.
What possessed 4 brothers to do that?
I wonder if they'd "just got off the boat" and had no clue of what they were doing.
Or were daring each other.
Or were drunk. (Didn't a spectator at the Darts competition perish in a lake this week also)
Or were slightly simple.

The canal is not as frozen as you might think.
In places here it is, then it's not 300m away, then frozen again.
Don't assume a thing.
I believed the canal was frozen solid. I was wrong.

yes, 100m away the surface was free water, under the bridge where it rarely freezes. I didn't think it was frozen solid, as I'm sure that would take weeks, and it only froze over last Friday...

danger zone:
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note:
a) open water under bridge
b) community support office in yellow jacket coming to shoo them off...

Danger zone;

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[i]note:
a) open water under bridge
b) community support office in yellow jacket coming to shoo [s]them[/s] dodgy bloke with camera off... [/i]

Please don't fall through the ice this weekend...I am on call and will not be pleased if I have to get out of my nice warm bed at 2am because some **** has fallen through the ice and drown.

Again with the photos of schoolgirls.

Please don't fall through the ice this weekend...I am on call and will not be pleased if I have to get out of my nice warm bed at 2am because some **** has fallen through the ice and drown.

so we shouldn't take any risks in case we disturb your slumber ? Perhaps you'd be better suited to being as estate agent?

Again with the photos of schoolgirls.

actually a self-selected group of [b]people[/b] having fun :o)

[b]user removed:[/b] yes, it's about that deep 🙂

b) community support office in yellow jacket coming to shoo [s]them[/s] dodgy bloke with camera off...

he never said owt to me 🙂

now look what you made me do:
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(hopefully frozen Sow How Tarn near Cartmel Fell)

I think the thought that I might plunge through at any second increased my enjoyment, though oddly none of the others would have a go...

can you imagine the response to a post titled
'barnes dies in fall through ice accident'............?

'barnes dies in fall through ice accident'............?

I may not be that easy to kill 🙂 It took great self control not to ride right across - or was it that I lacked the nerve ? I [b]so[/b] wanted to!

wouldn't catch me riding on any frozen water other than puddles.Seriously that could be really dangerous imo.

It can't be that cold - he's wearing shorts!
Sppppppllllaaaaaaaaaashhhhhhhhh!

It can't be that cold - he's wearing shorts!

no, I [b]always[/b] wear shorts, so they are not a reliable temperature indicator...

Seriously that could be really dangerous imo.

the more people tell me not to do a thing the more I want to 🙂

Since it's warmed up, Simon, you are NOT, I repeat NOT to go out on the ice-covered canal. And for goodness sake, but some clothes on!

(stands back and awaits the inevitable)

Since it's warmed up, Simon, you are NOT, I repeat NOT to go out on the ice-covered canal. And for goodness sake, but some clothes on!

whatever happened to freedom of choice ? I considered myself overdressed in the canal shot 🙂

I remember as a child, there was a tarn near Kendal somewhere that froze up every year, and loads of people went ice skating. Were we all engaging in reckless folly?

SB you are a fool.

SB you are a fool.

keep it up :o) Obviously you lot who weren't there know so much more about it than me!

The ice was 5 inches thick at the very edge of the canal near us, and still around 2 inches under the bridges. Easily thick enough for around 5 people to jump up and down on it the same place without a hint of movement. It took a huge section of tree and a lot of effort to get through 😀

You dont have to be there to understand the dangers.....if you go in, you might get wet 🙄

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