Human Powered Snowthingee

[Mee-n-Mac]

[gtxrider] I like it ! That's it, I'm telling "Mee" the wedding's off. Then I can build a single seat ice dragster. Add the screws (as shown above) to the mud tires, pedals and what not and it's good to go. Your pic also makes me wonder just how bad ($$-wise) it would be to construct and legally use a powered OHRV on the lake ? Hmmm ... nothing says I couldn't do both

[IH] I am thinking of using bike tires / wheels / hubs, at least for the proto #1 version. With screw studs I'd bet it would go on the ice but I do wonder how well it would go in any snow. It's my guess that the wider the contact patch the less you'd sink* and the deeper the snow it would be useful in. It could well be that Orion's point is more the rule and in anything over an 1" it doesn't make much of a practical difference. Then there's no reason not to use cycle parts, certainly less fabrication for me to do ! Re: front skid ... I had thought that for our bed race entry a combo ski and skate (snow and ice) would be the trick. Same for the HPS. The skids could have a recycled pair of skate blades, extending down mebbe 1/2" - 1" below the skid bottom. On glare ice the blades do the work, on snow they act like a keel and only add minimally more resistance. Shouldn't be too hard to do ...

*It occurs to me as I type this that perhaps a large area skid plate, set normally (?? 6" ??) above the surface and waxed up real good might extend the usefulness of the HPS in powder. The plate keeps the HPS from bogging down and the tires (whatever they be) push the HPS across the snow (like an old Mississippi paddle wheeler). Might need a long travel suspension to allow the tires to reach "solid" ice/snow for traction ... hmmmm ??? ...