Ice cycle

This article is about bicycles designed to ride on ice. For the second album by Platypus, see Ice Cycles.

An ice cycle, ice bike, or icycle is a bicycle adapted for use on ice, usually by replacing the front wheel with an ice skate.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Versions exist with and without additional skates to provide lateral stability,^[1][2] that have been based on upright and recumbent bikes,^[6] and that have been used for racing.^[3][6] Ice cycles have been in use since at least the 1890s,^[7] and theory predicts that a bicycle with a front skate can exhibit riderless self-stability similar to the same bicycle with a front wheel.^[8] At least one example has been made with both the front and the rear wheels replaced by skates.^[9]

Icycle, a bicycle designed for riding on ice, at the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Icycle museum placard, at the History Museum at the Castle.

Gallery

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  Front skate of Icycle
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  Rear wheel of Icycle
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  Icetrack bike

See also

• Bicycle fairing
• Cold-weather biking
• Icetrack cycling
• Two-mass-skate bicycle
• Skibob