Winter laning.
Discussion
Well, maybe it should be 'White-laning'?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudmFp_NJiY
More pics and video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudmFp_NJiY
More pics and video here
Edited by TheHeretic on Friday 3rd February 11:00
Edited by TheHeretic on Friday 3rd February 23:08
hman said:
For a real challenge try doing the same on a trail bike...
Well, I've done bikes and 4x4's.Cars - sat in comfort, warm, music etc...but easier to get stuck, and a right pain sometimes to get 'unstuck', often involving wading through cold muddy water. Plus more difficult to get through narrow trails, and more things to break / go wrong. All has to be done at low-ish speed or risk suspension / transmission damage.
Bikes - sat in not much comfort, only as warm as your clothing, no music. Less chance of getting stuck, more options open to pick your route, if you do get stuck you can generally recover it alone. Easier to get through narrow trails, fewer things to break / go wrong. Can be done at higher speed and can enjoy jumps too, virtually no risk of suspension / transmission damage.
Both equally enjoyable, and can't really compare - horses for courses I would have said???
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Well, I've done bikes and 4x4's.
Cars - sat in comfort, warm, music etc...but easier to get stuck, and a right pain sometimes to get 'unstuck', often involving wading through cold muddy water. Plus more difficult to get through narrow trails, and more things to break / go wrong. All has to be done at low-ish speed or risk suspension / transmission damage.
Bikes - sat in not much comfort, only as warm as your clothing, no music. Less chance of getting stuck, more options open to pick your route, if you do get stuck you can generally recover it alone. Easier to get through narrow trails, fewer things to break / go wrong. Can be done at higher speed and can enjoy jumps too, virtually no risk of suspension / transmission damage.
Both equally enjoyable, and can't really compare - horses for courses I would have said???
No music? how about in ear headphones and an mp3 player, works for me. Cars - sat in comfort, warm, music etc...but easier to get stuck, and a right pain sometimes to get 'unstuck', often involving wading through cold muddy water. Plus more difficult to get through narrow trails, and more things to break / go wrong. All has to be done at low-ish speed or risk suspension / transmission damage.
Bikes - sat in not much comfort, only as warm as your clothing, no music. Less chance of getting stuck, more options open to pick your route, if you do get stuck you can generally recover it alone. Easier to get through narrow trails, fewer things to break / go wrong. Can be done at higher speed and can enjoy jumps too, virtually no risk of suspension / transmission damage.
Both equally enjoyable, and can't really compare - horses for courses I would have said???
I think you missed out the immensly different amount of physical exertion, balance, injury potential, pain of riding a trail bike in frozen conditions.
Particularly when you have to ride through freezing water or over sheet ice, or black ice on tarmac.
Cars dont fall over typically whereas you can spend quite alot of your time sliding on your face/arse if you fall off / get chucked off the bike- normally this results in at least bruising- sometimes breaking bones - but you have to carry on or you'll freeze to death / have to call in a helicopter!
I'm not entirely convinced that you've ridden through these sorts of conditions Ray, you certainly seem to have missed out the things that a rider actually FEELS.
Anyway, the point was not to make out that bikes were better at this only that it was a REAL challenge for bikes because (as you imply) most of the time you are sat on your arse in a comfy 4x4 sheltered from the elements.
Whoa - Who Died and made you God? - Maybe you dont quite understand what an open forum is???
ANYWAY!!
To carry on this discussion here some pics of bikes going winter laning in the snow.
Sheet ice for miles - there was a magic 18-20 MPH where you were going fast enough to stay upright and slow enough not to be out of control.
Amazing how 1.5ft of snow can almost stop you dead and make it very hard to get going again.
ANYWAY!!
To carry on this discussion here some pics of bikes going winter laning in the snow.
Sheet ice for miles - there was a magic 18-20 MPH where you were going fast enough to stay upright and slow enough not to be out of control.
Amazing how 1.5ft of snow can almost stop you dead and make it very hard to get going again.
No, they are standard road legal rubber knobblies - I looked at studded - even making my own - but in reality the lack of snow for most of the year really doesnt call for it.
Just dropped pressure down to 5psi and learned to ride to suit the conditions - Thats not to say I didnt fall off much.
Was pretty skaty, plus its easier if you keep stood up and let the bike wriggle underneath but its further to fall!!
Just dropped pressure down to 5psi and learned to ride to suit the conditions - Thats not to say I didnt fall off much.
Was pretty skaty, plus its easier if you keep stood up and let the bike wriggle underneath but its further to fall!!
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