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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.
Sadly I don't get paid if I don't show up for work so I ride regardless of the weather but obviously there is always the option to get off and walk...
Sounds like a great idea. I wouldn't want to do 15mph on most cycle lanes I've used but I'd happily stick to the road and go at 20mph.
eSports there must be some joke about Yorkshire in there.
WOW, you really hated the canal then, although I understand if it was wet or freezing and if the (long gone) Tyburn road bus lane was in operation...
If he didn't park in a car park, how did he get a parking charge? Who parks in the pavement "because some random said it was ok" ?
The police and the shyster defence lawyer would describe the registration as personal information!
There's one on my commute. I always switch to the road to avoid the future bus passengers as they mill about, eyes glued to smartphones, headphones...
Discerning eh? Well, I'll see your black latex gloves and raise you a Muc-Off apron......
I say, how did the sparrow cross the ... oh, OK.
Forecast over here barely has the air temperature tipping into the positive day and night into next week (it was around -6 in parts of the country...