Now, this is what I call a Winter Bike!
 

I've been seeing this image float around on my fb newsfeed http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=288094I can't use it here in OK, but if I lived somewhere snow actually accumulated and stuck around...

Not exactly a commuting bike, is it? :) Unless you live up-slope.

I was wondering, do they make ski-bike kits? They look like ordinary bikes with special wheels, maybe you can convert any old FS to a ski-bike.

That's cool!

Looks like it would take a lot of effort to drive that belt.

I will keep using my Xtracycle.
That rig wouldn't work well around here. They clear the roads.

http://vimeo.com/50972551

Looks kinda cool but the bike paths here were mostly ice today. Think studded tires work better work better on that stuff!

Too bad those are ineffective. You can see them coming off of the bike tires as they ride. Studded tires would be better,...

yeah, i think so, Looks kinda cool but the bike paths here were mostly ice today.thank youhttp://www.4948.info/xinjiechi/images/9.gif

Yup, I can't imagine those things staying on the tires very well. I'd hate to have them come off at speed and wrap around the axle. Instant crash at speed. Plus it looks like they would last about 3 minutes on pavement. Most of us ride snow ice and pavement, but mostly pavement. Studded tires already exist and work fine.

thats way cool....

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"

This is not it.

in my next life I owuld like to come back as an engineer (or an oceanographer)

Living in a part of Michigan which receives 96" of snow between, well... now and March. That ski bike looks like a nice toy. But nothing more. The roads are plowed and cleared most of the time and that might be fun on a frozen lake or forest path, but that's about it.

Marc