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ICE BIKE YouTube stillVideo: What if bike tyres were made from ice? Someone actually tried it ...
This is perhaps the most insane bike video we’ve seen during 2014 – a bike that has ice for tyres, rather than rubber.
The film is the work of Colin Furze, who will be familiar to many of you through his jet-powered Raleigh Shopper video from last year.
His latest video sees him test those ice wheels over a variety of terrain – with what might best be described as mixed results.
Let’s just say there is a rather marked contrast in the ice-tyre equipped bike’s performance going uphill to when it is being ridden downhill, not to mention on an ice rink and a glacier …
Here’s the video, with the ‘making of’ clip showing the science behind it following below.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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- andystow 1 sec ago
Same. I also have gone through a bunch of their tyres, and only the extralight disappointed (torn sidewall) but the standards are fantastic....
- Simon E 9 min 7 sec ago
Safety is far more important than a few grammes. I've not found anything to beat (or match) standard Shimano QRs so far - reliability, the...
- thax1 14 min 34 sec ago
Same back then. Oh, also Codeine. https://www.dopeology.org/people/Sean_Kelly/
- BalladOfStruth 43 min 31 sec ago
+1 on this. In my experience, driving professionally tends to bring complacency and arrogance over competence. I've had far more issues/run-ins...
- chrisonabike 1 hour 57 min ago
Indeed - but it's no more inconsistent than our current road design - very often UK high streets are "for shopping" and also a busy through route....
- mike the bike 3 hours 27 min ago
If you ask the world's leading economic commentators how many people have been rescued from abject poverty by capitalism the average answer would...
- The Larger Cyclist 3 hours 52 min ago
loads of parking
- brooksby 4 hours 36 min ago
I hate it when I can't find the obvious source of a puncture.
- don simon fbpe 6 hours 40 min ago
Now, if we're talking gravel bikes, that's a whole different story. Gimme, gimme, gimme! Apologies for the Facebook link....
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It's top stuff. He used to do a lot of BMX, which explains the riding skills. I do love the commitment to the shirt & tie look when doing daft/dangerous stuff.
Excellent!!!!! A solution to a problem that never existed............
As I was reading the comments below the article my eyes happened to glance across to the right. There at the bottom of the 'Latest Comments' Box was this...
"I put my winter wheels on my bike 2 weeks ago. I use fulcrum quattro cx wheels. They are £212 on ...
in Winter Wheel options/suggestions?"
Just needs to team them up with his Wolverine claws...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcGek-NoFQ&list=PLGjbAdaOBLBkUumnged-uU...
Mad, bad, absolutely crazy brilliant!!!