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An ice cycle, ice bike, or icycle is a
bicycle A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered transport, human-powered or motorized bicycle, motor-assisted, bicycle pedal, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two bicycle wheel, wheels attached to a ...
adapted for use on ice, usually by replacing the front wheel with an
ice skate Ice skates are metal blades attached underfoot and used to propel the bearer across a sheet of ice while ice skating. The first ice skates were made from leg bones of horse, ox or deer, and were attached to feet with leather straps. These skates ...
. Versions exist with and without additional skates to provide lateral stability, that have been based on upright and recumbent bikes, and that have been used for racing. Ice cycles have been in use since at least the 1890s, and theory predicts that a bicycle with a front skate can exhibit riderless self-stability similar to the same bicycle with a front wheel. At least one example has been made with both the front and the rear wheels replaced by skates.


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File:Icycle front detail.jpg, Front skate of Icycle File:Icycle rear detail.jpg, Rear wheel of Icycle File:Icetrack bike.jpg, Icetrack bike


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Bicycle fairing A bicycle fairing also called recumbent fairing is a full or partial covering for a bicycle to reduce Aerodynamics, aerodynamic Drag (physics), drag or to protect the rider from the elements. It is more common to see recumbent bicycles with parti ...
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Cold-weather biking Cold-weather biking, cold-weather cycling, or winter biking is the use of a bicycle during months when roads and paths are covered with ice, slush and snow. Cold weather cyclists face a number of challenges in near or below freezing temperatures ...
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Icetrack cycling Icetrack cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on 400 m speed skating ice ovals. However, any ice sheet can be used, including ice hockey rinks and frozen lakes. History The sport of cycling on ice is probably as old as the sport of cycli ...
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Two-mass-skate bicycle A two-mass-skate bicycle (TMS) is a theoretical model created by a team of researchers at Cornell University, University of Wisconsin-Stout, and Delft University of Technology to show that it is neither sufficient nor necessary for a bike to hav ...
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Skibob Skibobbing (also called skibiking or snowbiking) is a winter sport involving a bicycle-type frame attached to skis instead of wheels and sometimes a set of foot skis. The use of foot skis is what defines "skibobbing". Although skibobs are ofte ...


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