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buddy Ice racing
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:43 am
by bikebuda
here is a link to the newest sport on earth "indoor scooter ice racing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lhhEZ7z9w
if the link is dead put in ICE racing 10 scooters on youtube
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:51 am
by Howardr
Did ya notice that in the "related videos" section, there are NONE. That's a one of a kind.
Howard
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:28 am
by Cheshire
Hard to tell...but was that a Rattler in the lead?
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:47 am
by bikebuda
it is a rough house 50
the rules for the class are it has to be a 50cc engine case to begin with and 2 studs per tire lug
WWW.icespeedway.com
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:51 am
by Cheshire
Cool. I'm not familiar with them enough to distinguish between rattler and roughhouse, but at least it was a Genuine. It was holding the lead nicely!
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:23 am
by laxer
bikebuda wrote:it is a rough house 50
the rules for the class are it has to be a 50cc engine case to begin with and 2 studs per tire lug
WWW.icespeedway.com
Big thumbs up for the black sheep of the Genuine family!!
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:34 pm
by bikebuda
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:23 am
by jmkjr72
there are scooter classes that run at some of the same events that run motorcycle ice races on the lakes
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:24 am
by Dibber
Did you put on a knobby tire? What size tire did you use? That looked like a lot of fun. Thought about trying this on some of our frozen lakes.
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:41 am
by Cheshire
It's making me wonder if anyone makes a knobby that fits the Buddy 125. I might end up looking into that for next winter.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:06 pm
by bikebuda
here are some pictures of the tires used
on the rough house they are stock with 5/8 (silver rocket) ice screws with standard street tires inside of them with tubes
on the buddies we used pit bike 2.75 X10 knobbies with a wheel barrow tire as a liner, also with a tube
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:11 pm
by bikebuda
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:20 pm
by Cheshire
So...tube inside street tire inside studded knobby? Why the doubling up of tires?
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:44 pm
by Lostmycage
Cheshire wrote:So...tube inside street tire inside studded knobby? Why the doubling up of tires?
Extra layer between the tube and the screws.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:48 pm
by bikebuda
with out enough rubber the screws pull out and the 5/8 are the shortest ones they make, unfortunately that is longer than a stock tire is thick
and yes you have to cut the side walls out of the stock street tires leaving a sort of rubber band of tred to put into the tire you are going to use
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:58 pm
by Cheshire
Ah. What brand studs are you using?
I've recently (like last week) considered studded tires for next year and discovered Aerostich makes 2 scooter-specific carbide studs, the smaller of which is 6mm x 9mm. Would that work without a liner?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:41 am
by bikebuda
the only allowed screws are "silver rocket" brand as far as i know they are only available through the ICE racing organization. they are like $80 for 1000 screws
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:35 am
by Cheshire
Ah, understood. So it's more of a "this is what's been approved to keep the playing field level" and not of a "no one's tried anything else". Gotcha.
The 'stich studs are almost $1/stud anyway...though state laws limit the number of studs you can have per wheel to much less than the rules/regs of that race circuit.
Looks amazing, though!
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:59 pm
by bikebuda