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ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:25 pm
by midnighthunder89
So here is my project ski bike built for $5 for the nuts and bolts. Built in my room with no real tools so kinda ghetto rigged...
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:26 pm
by astrozam
Interesting, promise us you'll tape the wipe-outs,lol
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:26 pm
by mattblackratbus
Mad looking machine, what keeps the trucks in the bike dropouts?....Johnny
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:32 pm
by ihatemybike
I dig, but where do you put your feet?
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:06 pm
by midnighthunder89
we are not really done yet we want a bar welded through the BB we built to see if we like it if i do I will build better skis and put on a better bike so this is just a test. The trucks are just tightened really tight against the dropouts to attach bike to ski. I don't think there will many crashes after the first run at least from me. I snowboard, bike, and have good balance. I would like to build a Full Suspension one.
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:34 pm
by GEJ
:-k :-k Hummm-this could be the ground floor of a new extreme snow bike sport.180's on mogels,back flips,loops,sat tv coverage.
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:26 pm
by T.Low
midnighthunder89 wrote:we are not really done yet we want a bar welded through the BB we built to see if we like it if i do I will build better skis and put on a better bike so this is just a test. The trucks are just tightened really tight against the dropouts to attach bike to ski. I would like to build a Full Suspension one.
I don't think there will many crashes after the first run at least from me. I snowboard, bike, and have good balance.
These look like famous last words if ever I've seen them!
Re: ski bike
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:09 pm
by midnighthunder89
i am not the first person to do it ever they actually sell kits if you have some spare $ to buy them they are sweet and i think at keystone in CO you can rent them or there is one place you can rent them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZNW_Y3OOb4
Re: ski bike
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:23 am
by peter
What a maroon. He forgot to put the pedals back on. #-o
This'll prolly be the slowest skibike on the planet
PS: It's cool. Please do videotape your untimely demise....er, your experience for us all
Re: ski bike
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:50 pm
by kings-x59
Man,that looks like something I could really hurt myself with
Re: ski bike
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:00 pm
by safariobsession
Awesome man! Taking the cafeteria trays or using cardboard boxes get kinda old going down the hills of campus eh? haha.
Re: ski bike
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:34 pm
by midnighthunder89
the trays are fun for our FWD friends but the hills around here are big and for that we needed something "safer"
Re: ski bike
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:50 pm
by T.Low
I was all excited to ask for a first run report...but I guess there's no snow yet, eh? Alpine Valley got any machine made snow yet? Pine Knob? Nubs Knob?
Hell, bring it out here, we still have snow on Mt Baker. And they just had a 3" dusting of freshies a couple days ago.
http://www.mtbaker.us/
Re: ski bike
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:55 am
by remark123
Nah, no snow around Detroit yet, Midnight Thunder will either be trying it out behind Wadsworth, (really steep hill, but very short landing zone)
or over at Mt. "Rocky", right sport?
Re: ski bike
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:52 am
by midnighthunder89
ya i see mcnair hill out my window but I was hoping Ripley will let us run over there and then I could do that instead of snowboarding sometimes. I was thinking about some trial runs next time it rains...if ever. little soap on the skis and i will be golden. I have started my Full suspension one, got a frame got the parts off am going to machine brackets over thanksgiving I am looking for some 80cm kids skis so i would not have to cut them, or snowblades but I am on a budget. cheap is always better.