Doing Strata Florida on the 1200GSA WC next weekend.
Anyone done any deep wading on WC yet? I gather you can go pretty damned deep to not far below headlight. The old 1200 had a crap wading depth due to low intake...
Ok, let's assume you're being serious here for a second (and of course we will want piccies or it just didn't happen)
The 'wade depth' of any vehicle is dependant on the location of quite a few key components........and I'd be really surprised if you could go even UP TO the headlight on a WC.
Where is the air intake? (Minis used to drown in 3 inches of puddle because their intakes sucked up enough water from that height to hydro-lock the engine)
Where is the ECU? (The good old Landy Defenders had their ECU's as standard fitted on top of the front middle seat bottom panel, so you knew that if your thighs got wet whilst fording, your car was about to die)
What about the FD? is it sealed, vented, gaitored? (I've killed 4 FD bearings on my old lebenfiddy GSA through fording........I must have photos from a dozen or more events/rides where I've been draining milky soup from the bezel box......can you even do that on a toilet?
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At an event in Wales (I think, maybe someone will be able to correct my fuzzy memory on that) we had 6 guys holding HRH Oonyack's 1200 ADV vertically on its back wheel to drain the water, then it took 3 or 4 oil changes to get the engine oil clear of emulsification.
The very first time that a certain person here who I used to do a lot of fording with took his brand spanking new 1200 through a ford up at the East Mids event (after some severe flooding) he and I ended up racing eachother out of a river.......I spent the rest of the day with my oil pressure light on because the switch had shorted (it dried out before I rode home) but his bike had to have new ring gear and a new starter after being hydrolocked (fortunately, he was able to get it done under warranty which is why I'm not naming him
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On our trusty 11xx bikes, you can drown them, remove the plugs, turn them over a few times, dry the plugs and give it all a squirt of jizz then they will start again.......On the MKI 1200, the breather went straight into the sump
I honestly have no idea what the wading depth of a toilet is, but FFS check out all of the common sense things before you do it......Intakes, ECU, FD breather, possibly GB breather?
Then go for it......and if you can post pics that rival anything that us old luddites can and have done on our 11xx's, I will doff my hat to you sir
