Wheels on Ice: Slip-Sliding and Loving It

<img width="131" height="120" align="left" src="http://www.baltimorespokes.org/images/articles/20070205113226140_1.jpg" alt="">By STEPHEN REGENOLD - New York Times
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Ice bike racing, a subgenre of the subgenre of winter cycling, is a hybrid discipline where spiked tires bite solid ice on twisting, circuitous courses cut from a mantle of snow. Riders pedal hard on straight-aways, then slide and fishtail through the turns. Frozen lakes and rivers serve as the medium of the sport, which mixes elements of a sprint road race with a dirt bike rally.

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