Motorcycles and pool parties just don't mix

[NetWareHead]

How bad is hydrolocking with motorcycle engines? I would think much less mass would help... but then the RPM is higher than, say, a V6.

Water, for all intents and purposes, is incompressible. Id say its bad on any engine.

 

[Fenixgoon]

How bad is hydrolocking with motorcycle engines? I would think much less mass would help... but then the RPM is higher than, say, a V6.

the quenching effect won't be that bad, though it will certainly suck. the problem is you muck up the oil, the seals, and as someone else mentioned...water is incompressible (or close to it), so you might end up destroying your connecting rods and the rest of the engine.

not to mention the damage to the electrical system

 

[Printer Bandit]

i'd be a toolbag if i could get invited to that party with hot girls.

 

[MongGrel]

I truly loved that one he he.

He didn't look too professional to me.

*shrug*

That guy is a professional stunt rider. He's got more money than all of ATOT combined. No big loss for him. Probably staged for publicity anyway.

Fine I guess, and I doubt it, as far as money anyways.

 

[Markbnj]

the quenching effect won't be that bad, though it will certainly suck. the problem is you muck up the oil, the seals, and as someone else mentioned...water is incompressible (or close to it), so you might end up destroying your connecting rods and the rest of the engine.

not to mention the damage to the electrical system

Right, that's basically the definition of hydrolocking. The water is sucked into the cylinder, the valves close, the piston tries to compress it, and crack. The question I had is whether the light weight parts of a motorcycle engine make it less likely to suffer catastrophic damage.

Anyway, I doubt enough motorcycles have been dumped into pools while running to come to a conclusion on it .

 

[MongGrel]

Right, that's basically the definition of hydrolocking. The water is sucked into the cylinder, the valves close, the piston tries to compress it, and crack. The question I had is whether the light weight parts of a motorcycle engine make it less likely to suffer catastrophic damage.

Anyway, I doubt enough motorcycles have been dumped into pools while running to come to a conclusion on it .

Hydrolocking would be a minor concern in this one.

I between Metalurgy, Physics, and just basic things on what looked to be a mostly air cooled engine. the way he was revving it up when it hit the pool it would be pretty much a screwed up mess after coming out of the pool I'd think.

Cracked crap all over.

Nice publicity stunt if it was I guess.

I suppose they blow up cars left and right to make movies, somehow that really didn't look like a publicity stunt.

It may have been someone making too much money off their bikes to get destroyed that stupidly, but I guess that would be nothing new.

 

[momeNt]

There hasn't been a real video posted on the internet since... well, the internet.

Go home folks, nothing to see.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Right, that's basically the definition of hydrolocking. The water is sucked into the cylinder, the valves close, the piston tries to compress it, and crack. The question I had is whether the light weight parts of a motorcycle engine make it less likely to suffer catastrophic damage.

Anyway, I doubt enough motorcycles have been dumped into pools while running to come to a conclusion on it .

i somehow read "hydrolocking" as having to do with quenching. i must be tired :\

 

[Zebo]

This is why you leave partying to the professionals. In 1981, I drew straws with my two roommates to see who'd jump their bike over the pool at our 4th of July party. My roommate won and I prepped the pool by pouring 5 gallons of everclear on the surface while my other roommate set up a small ramp. I then lit the pool and the roommate who lost/won? made a clean jump over the pool before side slapping the wood privacy fence. A little bruised but no damage to the bike or pool. Unfortunately the pics didn't capture the flamage as well as the eye.

Awesome! thats my kinda party. Now I'm old cant do that kinda shit. Stuff on my body just breaks instead of bends ...

 

[Zebo]

This video reminds of this Steve Harvey skit "White folks weekends"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvSqfwxQec4

 

[NetWareHead]

The question I had is whether the light weight parts of a motorcycle engine make it less likely to suffer catastrophic damage.

I think hydrolocking would be as catastrophic to a heavily built-up diesel engine vs a high revving motorcycle engine with a lighter reciprocating mass.

 

[Genx87]

What a sausage party.

 

[Markbnj]

i somehow read "hydrolocking" as having to do with quenching. i must be tired :\

Well it certainly was 100% quenched .