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An ice cycle, ice bike, or icycle is a bicycle adapted for use on ice, usually by replacing the front wheel with an
File:Icycle front detail.jpg, Front skate of Icycle
File:Icycle rear detail.jpg, Rear wheel of Icycle
File:Icetrack bike.jpg, Icetrack bike
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
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
Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's.
The most common ones are: left and right; forward(s) and backward(s); up and down.
They form three pairs ...
and recumbent
Recumbent may refer to:
* Recumbence, the act or state of lying down or leaning
* Recumbent bicycle, a bicycle, tricycle or quadricycle which places the rider in a reclined or supine position
* Recumbent effigy, a tomb sculpture of the deceased ...
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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See also
* Cold-weather biking * Icetrack cycling *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 ...
*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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