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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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- brooksby 26 min 40 sec ago
They haven't been seen for ages- did they get banned?
- Mpcleathero 27 min 42 sec ago
So the cycle lane ruined the village, because of the unclear markings and accidents are happening because of the cycle lane markings. Which is it?...
- eburtthebike 32 min 36 sec ago
They prefer their alternative facts to real ones. They believe something, therefore it must be true.
- Spangly Shiny 1 hour 43 min ago
Sorry, no idea what you are on about.
- ktache 1 hour 47 min ago
For double that you can' get a Pedro's vise whip Ii. Or half, the reportedly excellent decathlon thingy. And Sigma has the Silca for only £150.
- KDee 1 hour 53 min ago
I'm no detective, but the "NOAHFAST" decal vertically stickered on the headtube is a little bit of a clue.
- Spangly Shiny 2 hours 12 min ago
I remember my driving test examiner, straight after congratulating me for having passed the test said, "Don't be a twat and have that as your best...
- Bigfoz 4 hours 20 min ago
Did they think it was a drive thru?
- Rendel Harris 4 hours 30 min ago
As a teacher's husband, I'm allowed to watch up to 50km out (unless it's a big mountain stage when I can only watch up to the start of the first HC...
- PoorInRichfield 7 hours 5 min ago
I thought wide rims and tires were marketing hype until I bought a bike in 2019 that had both... 700x32C tires on a 25mm internal width rim. Now I...
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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!!!