The Ice is on its way, how hard is it to make this?

seb421 · Post by **seb421** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:19 am

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Would love Skis on the bike

Pyro · Post by **Pyro** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:35 am

Find on the flat, but itd get torn off on the first big bump.
Whats wrong with spiked tyres?

seb421 · Post by **seb421** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:45 am

Pyro wrote:Find on the flat, but itd get torn off on the first big bump.
Whats wrong with spiked tyres?

if you look on the video there is good ground clearance on the ski's mate.

spikes work well on ice but if you get to a gritted road its not so good, some ski's you could fit would be mega for those that do have to use it all year round

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:23 am

That's bloody brilliant, great idea. It's basically putting stabilisers on, I'm sure it's not to difficult to make something up. I would have though the ski part would be the hardest as ski's are only designed for snow, so on ice, salt, roads it would break or wear the ski surface very fast. Maybe they need to be more like tyres. tyre rubber along the surface of the ski that meets the road surface.

I'm surprised there no companies making these sort of things over here as a part of road safety. It would allow bikes to ride through all winter and weather. At the moment I would just go slow and use my feet.

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TonyW650 · Post by **TonyW650** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:33 am

Wouldnt it be easier to get a cheap land rover lol, can remember about 10 years ago maybe longer, I had a modified GPz750 turbo, right little animal, my sister was at uni in Northampton and went up to see her, it snowed while I was up there.
Coming back down the M1 was fun in the evening, full of snow and ice, hadn't been gritted or cleared properly and the bike was a nightmare, decided I would do it again lol.

Didnt think we was allowed to use spiked tyres here in the uk Seb?
If it gets that bad over here in the uk with global warming, we as a nation will struggle anyway, I believe we are on the same longitude as places like Canada, Greenland, Denmark etc
if with the ice caps melting and it all goes bad with the gulf stream, it will get bloody cold in the uk and we're just not set up so we wont cope with it!

Carl, can you imagine HSE getting wind of it, god the ratification process would be a night mare, bikes with ski's no, its like conkers with safety specs lol

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:42 am

If it gets that bad over here in the uk with global warming, we as a nation will struggle anyway, I believe we are on the same longitude as places like Canada, Greenland, Denmark etc

Your probably onto something there. We will need snowmobiles with a big V twin inside.

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TonyW650 · Post by **TonyW650** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:05 am

One of my mates built a Quad pilot type thing last year from plans off the net, he stuck a tl1000 lump in it, do the same with nobbly tyres and a vtr lump.
hold on the way my backs going that sounds like a good idea full stop lol as I aint having a wheel chair lol

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