My Cousins Are Crazy People

Is this the same guy that tries to cross a slough on his ski-doo in the summertime?

Hope for more warm winters because with the price of gas that'll be our ride to work.

WOW.. Got snow there already??

After that 105 degree (F) heat index yesterday, the snow looks inviting...

Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...

Harley's not popular in Saskatchewan?

This picture was taken on a Minnesota lake of a state champ racer.Kates cousin.

Ice racing a bike is the most fun you can have with your cloths on. I Ran a Honda 500 RX in Ice oval competition for a number of years and it was twice the thrill of them pansy-butt snowmobile races. ;-) With appx 300 sheet metal screws in the knobby tires you can pull of some pretty amazing cornering on the ice you couldn't on dry pavement or dirt track.

You want real thrills? Play the game the Swedes and Czchs do ...they have a form of indoor speedway-style motorcycle racing on hockey arena ice ( but they also play this game on frozen lakes when the ice is smooth enough)... they put 1" razor sharp spikes in the tires instead of sheet metal screws and the bikes can pull corners like they were glued to the track...but you're only ever a couple of degrees away from a face plant (and perforation from the riders behind you) at that point.... the bikes have 2 gears (ist for getting off the line and a wide band 2nd to go wide open) and no brakes!,,,except the rider's feet and the back pressure of the 500cc Methanol drinking motor in the Jawas and Husquevarnas they race....now that's a thrill you can't get on a Ski-doo! ;-)

I am sooooo relieved to find out that I'm not the only one who has crazy relatives. :-)

"Your Very Own Personal Tank"

The Hyanide won the Michelin Challenge this year.

"You may not have room in your garage (or budget) for a dirt bike and a snowmobile and a four-wheeler. But what if one vehicle could take the place of all three? That’s the idea behind the Hyanide..."

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/5fa21e6759a4c010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Well, Kate, I'm not the least bit surprised that you have some crazy cousins. (Psst, so do I. And I'm sure I'm fondly considered such by some of them!) In homogenized Canada, there's a lot to be said for being considered crazy: badge of honour, methinks.

Re biking: I'm a total ignoramous. But I LOVED the movie, The World's Fastest Indian. I'd thought it was about an aboriginal in a running race! As usual, Anthony Hopkins is top notch. This gentle, fierce hearted film is a must see. And just like one didn't need to know a thing about baseball to love Field of Dreams, one doesn't need to know anything about the world of biking to appreciate this thoughtful, intelligent, endearing New Zealand film. (I think I'll do myself a favour: rent it and watch it again tonight!)

lookout beat me to the punch! The photo of Kate's cousin looks just like "crazy" Kiwi Burt Munro on his home-built 1920 Indian motorcycle at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats where, against all odds, he set the land-speed world record in 1967.

How did your cousin get out of this one, Kate? It looks like he's going d-o-w-w-w-n...

Shhhhhh!, there might be pike under that ice!
Great fun, (thanks also concrete),... but you'll scare the fish!

http://www.snobearind.com/

RELEASE THE LUNKERS

Hey, Kate, one of my brothers just got a motorcycle. 12-yr-old Honda something.

Don't know if he wants to race it on ice, though. He surely could, as he just moved to Edmonton. Smart move, eh?

Knowing him, I think he'd say ice racing on motorcycles as opposed to WRX STis and EVOs, is for poopheads. No offence to the cousins of Kate, though. If folks like to break their bones, I say, whatever gets their rocks off...

Wonder if he can put a ramp up to the back of his early-Nineties Suburban and just drive the thing right inside? I wouln't fit into his Explorer nor his T-Bird...

"Ice racing a bike is the most fun you can have with your cloths on." -WL Mackenzie Redux

--Where is it written that it must be done with clothes on?

Maybe that's actually Kate in the pic, albeit with clothes on.

We know she likes ice cream with no clothes on... what next, nudist ice bike racing? LOL

Ok, I'll behave now...

you put the fun back in dysfunction

http://www.envbike.com/

Would the stealth bike without exhaust be as much fun? Naw, too space age.! But on second thought... = TG