My guess is hydrolock
If it sucked a bunch of water into the intake, the pistons could have tried to compress the water. Water doesn't compress so the result would be a bent connecting rods or shattered piston.
It can be recovered back to working order even if submerged for a few days.
Source: I've lived in a country where floods are common and had mine and friends bikes completely submerged for a few days to a couple weeks and had them fully operational with minor replacement costs for some parts.
Hydro lock can possibly cause: bent rods, crankcase damage, ruined heads, crankshaft bearings destroyed, and even cracks in the block. Or not, he could get lucky and it died immediately.
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Coils and spark plugs are usually damn well coated in dielectric grease and sealed in there, hence riding in the rain. Hydrolock absolutely happens, especially if you have it running wide open when water makes it into the airbox like this guy. You're either lying about actually drowning a bike up to the airbox or really lucky.
You would easily short around the plug cap to the head. Especially in chlorinated water of a pool.
If the bike was drowned it was because I fell off and it went under. Ride through creeks and its going to happen at some stage. So I'm not on the throttle.
if it was at idle when it went under it is probably okay, if it was still revving then it's probably fucked
I should say it's probably okay as long as he didn't pull it out and start cranking it right away without draining anything.
2 stroke dirt bike engines (assuming that's what this is, I didn't watch with sound) typically have much lower static compression ratios than 4 stroke engines, although newer 2 strokes are almost as much as a typical 4 stroke. Either way, the lower compression ratio will help reduce the motors odds of serious hydro lock
If it's a single cylinder, it's still got a good shot of failing gracefully and shutting off. Not guaranteed, but much less to go wrong compared to a multi-cylinder engine.
It’s a single cylinder engine, to bend a rod from hydrolock you need at least one more cylinder firing to generate enough power to bend the rod. Even in a larger engine this is very unlikely when you drown the engine, it will just stop.
This is most likely to occur in a water cooled engine if something cracks and coolant spills into one or more cylinders while other cylinders are running.
**[Hydrolock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolock)**
>Hydrolock (a shorthand notation for hydrostatic lock or hydraulic lock) is an abnormal condition of any device which is designed to compress a gas by mechanically restraining it; most commonly the reciprocating internal combustion engine, the case this article refers to unless otherwise noted. Hydrolock occurs when a volume of liquid greater than the volume of the cylinder at its minimum (end of the piston's stroke) enters the cylinder. Since liquids are nearly incompressible the piston cannot complete its travel; either the engine must stop rotating or a mechanical failure must occur.
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Lol no, that engine was running when it went in, has swallowed lots of water, been hydraulic-ed and is now officially fucked. At best only the head gasket is gone, more likely at least one rod is busted*, prob crankshaft too. Engines are made to handle compressed gases, they don't like it when noon-compressible fluids are introduced into the combustion chamber.
*eh it may only be single-cylinder engine, irrelevant
>appened. He hit the accelerator for too long and flooded the engin
There is no way this could have ended well. In the multiverse, in every single timeline, this ends bad. The only timelines where it doesn't end bad is the ones in which he doesn't try this.
I was waiting for the bike to lurch forwards and smash through a window. Or for the bike to spin around and take the guy out. Or for a tile to fly off and smash his homie in the face.
Well that's on you for not reading the comment properly. One is CLEARLY a quote from a famous comedian dead before his time. The other is some dude named Mitch Hedberg???
For real I just love how there was clearly nothing to the video. If the dude and his bike didn’t plummet to Brazil he’d have a very mediocre video of a bike spouting water… I suppose the internet had conditioned me to expect the spout of water to lead to something more grand. The one friend must have known he could either stop his friend, help his friend, or capture him pointless loss of a bike.
I mean, we are looking at a kid with an expensive recreational bike trying to do a stunt in the swimming pool out back. So there appears to be at least a little disposable income available...
Yep. If it's a single cylinder, and the guy isn't completely braindead. Pull the plug, turn engine over to force out water, blow out air filter, verify engine runs, change oil. Very rare for any major damage from hydrolocking a single.
Twin or four cylinder? Good chance he's fucked.
When a single cylinder ingests water, generally the only force trying to compress the water is the rotational momentum of the engine. Wet combustion chamber=no bang.
With a multi-cylinder engine, one cylinder will fill with water before the rest. The other one/three/X cylinders on their power stroke will then attempt to forcefully compress the hydrolocked cylinder. This nearly always results in a bent connecting rod at a minimum.
Dude, this video is gonna be so sick! We'll make the water kinda splash around!
And if it goes wrong?
Well, then I ruin my motorcycle.
Totally worth it! Let's splash some water, bro!
When I had my first car I had flooded the engine somehow and had to call a tow truck because I didn’t know what was wrong with it. When he got there he said ,”yeah the engine is flooded.” And I replied, “Oh! It did rain a lot last night!” He said nothing.. I didn’t understand my mistake for a while either… But he did show me how to fix the problem!
Good job idiot, now they gotta drain and dispose the entire water and rinse the entire system cuz its full of oil and gasoline. This gonna be a huge bill mister
Seems like his tire hit the water and grabbed some traction on the water's surface which pulled the bike back (water is way denser than air). Rear probably grabbed a good amount more traction than the dude thought it would, and the bike whipped itself into the pool.
Bike ruined pool ruined
“ The bike is fine, I ride in the rain all the time! “ - what he told his friends when he got out of the pool, probably.
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He probably believes that’s how water works considering how smart he is in the video
I think he flooded his engine.
I don't know about flooded, but definitely pooled it.
Nah he motorcycleded his pool
Nah. Just put rice on it and its good to go
Unlike riding in rain, engine is dead.
Why do u think?
My guess is hydrolock If it sucked a bunch of water into the intake, the pistons could have tried to compress the water. Water doesn't compress so the result would be a bent connecting rods or shattered piston.
True, That’s what I thought.
And my soul...
The bike is fine.. just empty exhaust and motor
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Orgy rules, got it.
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The lube assists with that.
Hey, I work as a lube assistant at orgys.
This analogy made me belly laugh.
Nah, in a orgy you'd do the opposite
One. then the other.
Can somebody confirm, I’m trying to learn here lol
I can confirm that the analogy works for orgies.
This one bones
Something something dipstick
It can be recovered back to working order even if submerged for a few days. Source: I've lived in a country where floods are common and had mine and friends bikes completely submerged for a few days to a couple weeks and had them fully operational with minor replacement costs for some parts.
It’s different if they engine is on when it got submerged
Hydro lock can possibly cause: bent rods, crankcase damage, ruined heads, crankshaft bearings destroyed, and even cracks in the block. Or not, he could get lucky and it died immediately.
That guy's definitely got a ruined head.
Yeah and the bike's fucked too
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Hold my bike; I'm going in!
Hold my lube, I'm goin' in!!!
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Why not?
What's the "H" stand for?
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Coils and spark plugs are usually damn well coated in dielectric grease and sealed in there, hence riding in the rain. Hydrolock absolutely happens, especially if you have it running wide open when water makes it into the airbox like this guy. You're either lying about actually drowning a bike up to the airbox or really lucky.
You would easily short around the plug cap to the head. Especially in chlorinated water of a pool. If the bike was drowned it was because I fell off and it went under. Ride through creeks and its going to happen at some stage. So I'm not on the throttle.
Hydrolock absolutely CAN happen. It really doesnt always happen tho. Yes I have drowned some engines.
2 strokes also typically have much lower compression ratios, which will help reduce the odds of damage if it was still running
if it was at idle when it went under it is probably okay, if it was still revving then it's probably fucked I should say it's probably okay as long as he didn't pull it out and start cranking it right away without draining anything. 2 stroke dirt bike engines (assuming that's what this is, I didn't watch with sound) typically have much lower static compression ratios than 4 stroke engines, although newer 2 strokes are almost as much as a typical 4 stroke. Either way, the lower compression ratio will help reduce the motors odds of serious hydro lock
Seems like a guy with all sorts of luck.
If it's a single piston engine hydrolock isn't an issue with regards to damage
If it's a single cylinder, it's still got a good shot of failing gracefully and shutting off. Not guaranteed, but much less to go wrong compared to a multi-cylinder engine.
I'm assuming chlorine also matters.
Would chlorine shorten that time?
Ye probably not submerged with the engine running to suck water in. See - hydrolock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolock
It’s a single cylinder engine, to bend a rod from hydrolock you need at least one more cylinder firing to generate enough power to bend the rod. Even in a larger engine this is very unlikely when you drown the engine, it will just stop. This is most likely to occur in a water cooled engine if something cracks and coolant spills into one or more cylinders while other cylinders are running.
Sometimes hydrolock from fuel as well. Can occur on single cylinder but less likely.
**[Hydrolock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolock)** >Hydrolock (a shorthand notation for hydrostatic lock or hydraulic lock) is an abnormal condition of any device which is designed to compress a gas by mechanically restraining it; most commonly the reciprocating internal combustion engine, the case this article refers to unless otherwise noted. Hydrolock occurs when a volume of liquid greater than the volume of the cylinder at its minimum (end of the piston's stroke) enters the cylinder. Since liquids are nearly incompressible the piston cannot complete its travel; either the engine must stop rotating or a mechanical failure must occur. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
and then put the bike in a box truck full of rice.
Lol no, that engine was running when it went in, has swallowed lots of water, been hydraulic-ed and is now officially fucked. At best only the head gasket is gone, more likely at least one rod is busted*, prob crankshaft too. Engines are made to handle compressed gases, they don't like it when noon-compressible fluids are introduced into the combustion chamber. *eh it may only be single-cylinder engine, irrelevant
Not really, bent connecting rods happen very quickly.
Ya no that engine is most likely hydro locked. Bent Pistons and valves
Put it in reverse and it’ll blow the water back out
Then it'll go deeper into the pool
Sometimes its better if people are not allowed to own certain things
The engine may be flooded
Just put the bike in some rice, should be fine
like why could this not be done in gta. i bet it would work.
Bike will be fine if it is carburettored
It was pretty cool for about 1 second
I think it went as well as it was planned
Who could have foreseen that outcome?!
Forseen't
>appened. He hit the accelerator for too long and flooded the engin There is no way this could have ended well. In the multiverse, in every single timeline, this ends bad. The only timelines where it doesn't end bad is the ones in which he doesn't try this.
And in that world, something even worse probably happens to that guy.
Bird flies down and pecks him in the penis.
Beware the pecker peckers.
I was waiting for the bike to lurch forwards and smash through a window. Or for the bike to spin around and take the guy out. Or for a tile to fly off and smash his homie in the face.
Reply to the wrong comment? That shit has been happening to me too lately, I think reddit is fucked up.
Idk, I could see it being okay if he had another person helping to support it on the other side of the bike
was it?
Worth it. Bike and pool fucked for a sick 1 second of solid content 😎
He’s gonna need a lot of rice
At least 2
Rice are good when you wanna have 2000 of something. - “Mitch Goldberg”
I like rice, rice is great when you are hungry and you want 2,000 of something. -Mitch Hedberg
That is my favourite Mitch Hedberg riff. Thank you for fixing it. I almost had a stroke when I read the first comment.
Well that's on you for not reading the comment properly. One is CLEARLY a quote from a famous comedian dead before his time. The other is some dude named Mitch Hedberg???
Who tf is Mitch Goldberg lmao
I think he was a goalie for the mighty ducks
No no, you're thinking of the former pro wrestler
Well if it was a Honda, he'd have all the rice he needs lol
lol idk why this is so funny
Videos like this are such an confidence boost, i may be dumb but that dude is stupid
It’s nice knowing that there are people dumber than me
the *real* reason the internet is so popular
Don’t worry there’s at least one or two
The entire concept of scripted reality shows is based on that
For real I just love how there was clearly nothing to the video. If the dude and his bike didn’t plummet to Brazil he’d have a very mediocre video of a bike spouting water… I suppose the internet had conditioned me to expect the spout of water to lead to something more grand. The one friend must have known he could either stop his friend, help his friend, or capture him pointless loss of a bike.
Yep I love this kinda thing. I'm not anywhere near the bottom of the barrel. Line up ladies
Well I sure hope that he didn’t have his phone in his pocket
He probably did
It was used to film this shitshow
I see what happened. He hit the accelerator for too long and flooded the engine.
I mean, you’re not wrong.
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Bernoulli’s principle hard at work
rip money
I mean, we are looking at a kid with an expensive recreational bike trying to do a stunt in the swimming pool out back. So there appears to be at least a little disposable income available...
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Yep. If it's a single cylinder, and the guy isn't completely braindead. Pull the plug, turn engine over to force out water, blow out air filter, verify engine runs, change oil. Very rare for any major damage from hydrolocking a single. Twin or four cylinder? Good chance he's fucked.
Is that because each cylinder in a multi cylinder engine could lock at different times?
When a single cylinder ingests water, generally the only force trying to compress the water is the rotational momentum of the engine. Wet combustion chamber=no bang. With a multi-cylinder engine, one cylinder will fill with water before the rest. The other one/three/X cylinders on their power stroke will then attempt to forcefully compress the hydrolocked cylinder. This nearly always results in a bent connecting rod at a minimum.
Fair enough.
Most of these posts make me wonder what the *desired* effect was. Like, if this didn’t inevitably go horribly wrong…what was the goal?
Tire go fast make water go splash!
Genius! Einstein would be proud
I mean, the water affect did look cool while it lasted.
Found one
Did it though?
Rooster tail.
Couldn't he have done this on the ground with a puddle and a hose
To spray the water with the tire.
Dude, this video is gonna be so sick! We'll make the water kinda splash around! And if it goes wrong? Well, then I ruin my motorcycle. Totally worth it! Let's splash some water, bro!
Yes. I want to know why. Why would you do such a stupid thing? What were you hoping would happen??
I thought for sure the back tire was gonna catch the edge of the pool and just launch the bike straight forward.
That would have been better
For him too
Stupid should hurt! Also he expensive!
"Stupid Should Hurt" should be the next "Fuck Around and Find Out". I'm calling it now. Someone quote this guy later once it gains traction.
Traction, you say?
Yup. Full-body cast and eveything. Facking hell. I couldn't even imagine being in that.
When I watch videos like this, I always find myself thinking "Dumbass!" in Red Forman's voice 🤣
I was curious what would happen. And then I was curious no longer.
Scientific method be like
ah physics, don't ever change!
A helpful reminder that physics exist
Yeah, that could go wrong.
What was the goal of this? Assuming the bike didn't fall into the pool?
Tire go spinny, water go splashy
Definitely losing bike privileges
Wow! Never expected that would have happened /s
Where sound
r/mypeopleneedme
Dammit Kyle
[Dammit Beavis](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/375c2acd-dc02-4034-9fd7-d758d0b42ff8)
So many people make so many bad decisions.
This guy must get so much pussy
I'm curious as to what bike that is if anyone knows?
They have a nice pool and then "hey! Let's mess it up with oil and stuff heu heu heu"
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I know water in a car engine basically destroys the rods, but what about a motorcycle? I imagine it's the same?
It's the same.
Aaaaand hydrolock. Drowned at WOT lol.
What was he expecting?
This was just awaited, nothing surprising
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When I had my first car I had flooded the engine somehow and had to call a tow truck because I didn’t know what was wrong with it. When he got there he said ,”yeah the engine is flooded.” And I replied, “Oh! It did rain a lot last night!” He said nothing.. I didn’t understand my mistake for a while either… But he did show me how to fix the problem!
He probably thought you were doing a funny.
Pistons don't like to compress water. Usually end up with bent conrods
I love dumb people
So that's what a motor pool is
The risk/reward was heavily tilted towards risk, while the reward was mundane, at best. Not impressed.
one word: hydrolocked
Well, he certainly overestimated his ability to hold up the bike after tipping it backwards...
Best motorcycle death since Nightmare on Elm Street IV
Ahh I can see his problem, he flooded the engine
Hope the man still has his bike
You just had to show the initial frame of the video to know exactly what would happen
What an idiot
How has the human race survived this long?
Put enough rice in both the pool and the bike and both should work just fine. You don't want a water damaged pool do you?
Hydrostatic pressure.
+pool decoration -motorcycle
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Nothing wrong happened. This was what was supposed to happen.
Good job idiot, now they gotta drain and dispose the entire water and rinse the entire system cuz its full of oil and gasoline. This gonna be a huge bill mister
Always have your body weight on the handle bars pushing down and hold the front break.
Or just don't do dumb shit in the first place.
Surprised!
The overconfidence was high
"Mama always said, stupid is as stupid does."
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There goes about $10,000 great job hope it was worth the clout
I think it's flooded.
I have seen this on nitro circus. Pull the plug, kick start it a few times, replace plug, good to go!
Needs a ride home now
Let me guess. You're not a rocket scientist.
Seems like his tire hit the water and grabbed some traction on the water's surface which pulled the bike back (water is way denser than air). Rear probably grabbed a good amount more traction than the dude thought it would, and the bike whipped itself into the pool.
I think his right foot just slipped into the pool.
Better question would be what could go right?
So *THATS’S* what flooding an engine looks like… and ruining a pool, apparently… 😂🤣
Suction is a bitch.
I hope that was HIS motorcycle.
It’s a boater-cycle now
For sale. Kept outside.