Winter bike / Snow bike thread

Isn't the clarity of ice to do with how slowly it was frozen and how large the crystals are? I thought I heard that on some program about ice sculptures - the blocks are frozen slowly to make the crystals large and the ice clear.

The clarity of ice is all to do with the purity of the water, quantity of Total Dissolved Solids present etc. Ice sculptures use very pure filtered water to get the clarity.

Try freezing tap and bottled water in your cube tray at home - you'll be surprised at the difference.

• Goes off to try freezing tap and bottled water in my cube tray at home *
  

according to this guide about ice fishing clearer ice is usally stronger (and harder to drill) than the milky ice.

http://www.ehow.com/video_4944206_types-ice-encountered-ice-fishing.html

A quick glance at the net tells me cloudy ice has bubbles of gas in it, clear ice doesn't, so maybe neither is stronger.

Easy experiment.

Buy a yorkie and an Aero, form then into a brigde between too books, and see which will hold the most load.

You should probably carve the aero into the same shape as the yorkie for scientific correctness.

I'd have eaten before it got anywhere near any books.

Damn you! off to the vending machine now...

Damn you! off to the vending machine now...

Cant.

Currently building bridges out of 'french fries' crisps, and 'potatoe sticks' crisps. Should be the same principle.

hold on.

........Feck!

Damn you mais based potatoe impersonator, destroyer of science.

That ice looks well thin. Much too transparent.

In your face Jesus!

http://bmx.transworld.net/1000080457/videos/matt-beringers-ski-bike-video/

last year...

singular_snow by monomaniac(tom), on Flickr

friday on the way to work...

photo.JPG by monomaniac(tom), on Flickr

two words doesn't even sound enough to describe the sight of white powder;

Ed: White lines. Don't do it.

cane

not my bike, I enjoyed wearing sunglasses on the bike today though, it helped to filter the car nodders out of the way better

I know someone looking for that bike.

Well, I bunged a few cubes in the tray this arvo, and after a few minutes hacking with the old Swiss Army knife, knocked this up. It does go really clear.

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quite like these..

Queue Forever Alone memefest...

cue?

That's him snookered.

This thread is relevant to my interests.

I'm with McCarthy on this one, except my Mary has a few mods.

I have a currently idle 26er frame lurking about. I'm thinking some Pugsley forks and a Large Marge/Larry front-end....I wonder what the biggest tyre I can get in the back is.....

friday on the way to work...

photo.JPG by monomaniac(tom), on Flickr

is that a hip-flask/bottlecage combo? awesome.