Slipping on Ice

My favourite bits were the bits where there were 3/4 bikes at the same time.

The guy at 1:36 was good though, skillz.

Rubbish.

Are you trying to tell the people on here that during the recent cold snap that the solid shiny wet stuff we rode over wasn't ice? Piffle. It was ice, and most people didn't go down.

Just don't lean.

So many of the people on that video leant, and were going too fast around the curve to avoid leaning.

With proper thick ice like we had a few weeks ago, it is as difficult to balance as riding on a tightrope.

Cars with 4 big wheels cannot grip on the stuff what hope has a bicycle?

With a short flat stretch, you can try and skill/balance yourself across with lots of concentration.

But most roads have a slant so you will be gliding sideways into parked cars, if you try to turn right to correct. BAM! You are down.

I myself went down three times during the icey stint, all riding straight ahead, and two of those times were on a mountain bike. It did not help in the slightest.

Felt guilty watching that...more so when the lady cyclist & child on the back fell.

NIce of the public spirited voyeur to video rather than.... make a warning sign / spread table salt on the offending corner.... bollox it was funny and well worth videoing.

As for Ed's tt comments, some of us don't have time to lycra up at weekends and have to make the most of the commute to get the blood pumping around.... mmmm aero headtube here we come

With proper thick ice like we had a few weeks ago, it is as difficult to balance as riding on a tightrope.

Cars with 4 big wheels cannot grip on the stuff what hope has a bicycle?

With a short flat stretch, you can try and skill/balance yourself across with lots of concentration.

But most roads have a slant so you will be gliding sideways into parked cars, if you try to turn right to correct. BAM! You are down.

I myself went down three times during the icey stint, all riding straight ahead, and two of those times were on a mountain bike. It did not help in the slightest.

i went down just before christmas on a road that was covered in black ice: i was going straight (no leaning) but trying to slow down for the junction that was about 20 metres ahead. it didn't hurt but the scary thing was the car behind me. it braked - and skidded too, right into me. fortunately, no injuries (in fact, my bike went partly under his car then bounced off his locked wheel, ripping away his mudguard!) but it was kinda scary. i admit i haven't been out so much during the cold patch because of this - i'm not afraid of me falling over, i'm scared of the idiot drivers who speed cos they're in their nice warm cars and don't realise how dangerous it is.

Fell on ice twice on an Audax ride yesterday.
Now in Macclesfield hospital with badly broken ankle.

Trying to type on flakey internet touch screen hospital device.
Take care out there chaps.

This kid knows how to cycle on ice.
YouTube- wheelie op ijs

That is dry and frosty^^ It looks like the kids were even playing foot ball on it.

Here is a better example of trying to wheelie on ice:

YouTube- wheelie op t ijs?

+1. keep straight and all will be fine.

Ahhh, the make-believe world of perfectly level, straight and unobstructed roads. Unfortunately most of the ones I use are beset with junctions, cambers, potholes, roundabouts, bends (I know, IMAGINE THAT!!), other roads users, other road users using said road badly, blah blah blah.

If you haven't come off on ice this year it is because:

a) you were riding on 2 1/2 inch knobblies

b) it wasn't real ice (frosty bits don't count I'm afraid)

c) it wasn't a big patch of ice and you got traction back as soon as you lost it

d) you got lucky

e) you realised that minus 7 degrees overnight might lead to ice and avoided untreated surfaces or just got the bus

f) you ride a trike with a basket on the front

Most people get in under (d) and (e) I reckon.

Girl at 1:12, skills

My favourite is the guy at 1:25-1:30. He just doesn't fall like everybody else.

But yes, unhelpful video.

in four year of riding fixed i've never come off or crashed, until this last month that is. decked it twice going very slowly through a morrison's carpark, both times saying "is it icy or is it wet, is it icy or is it wet, crumple, it'll be icy then"

@ 1:19 - synchronized .

I give them a 9 .

Karma's a bitch. I watch the vid in the OP yesterday and had a good chuckle. This morning, heading round the Museumplein in Amsterdam on my dutch bike going fast there was a patch of invisible ice and I stacked it nicely: kept my feet when the bike went down, then slow-motion skidding around on my feet, tripped over bike, 5 meter slide along the bike lane on my right knee. It would have been easier to take if other people had seen the funny side and laughed at me, but it was as if my fall was the most normal thing in the world. Bring on the spring.

Bring on the spring.

Amen!

With proper thick ice like we had a few weeks ago, it is as difficult to balance as riding on a tightrope.

Cars with 4 big wheels cannot grip on the stuff what hope has a bicycle?

With a short flat stretch, you can try and skill/balance yourself across with lots of concentration.

** But most roads have a slant **so you will be gliding sideways into parked cars, if you try to turn right to correct. BAM! You are down.

I myself went down three times during the icey stint, all riding straight ahead, and two of those times were on a mountain bike. It did not help in the slightest.

Which is equivalent to leaning. Just because there is ice does not mean "you are going down!".

Roads lean.

rotated frame of reference.

Roads lean.

Camber, well?

It's even worse on Camber Sands.

1:36 Fast and Furious Netherlands Drift

This kid knows how to cycle on ice.

But this goes against everything I have learned on this forum, he is clearly LEANING backwards yet stays on the bike!
How can I trust anything anyone says on here.....

Pretty funny lol.

Some of them went far too fast for a corner full of ice and deserved it for not using there brain.

I have done dropped myself though, about 2 months ago when it was incredibly icey. I used ym brakes to slow down and dropped!

Quite a good learning curve anyway lol.