After a year with no safe ice, I took my snowmobile studded quad out and met up with my dirt bike buddy Pat. He has a dedicated ice bike, an old 79 Honda XL 500. Another guy was there, Stan, who was riding a KX 500 and they both were very fast. Pat's step son, Harvey was also there riding a CR 250.

My snowmobile studed front tires worked great on my 686 modified Raptor, but the rear tires didn't hook up coming out of the corners. I needed twice as many studs in the rear. The bikes had Kold Kutters and I got creamed down the straights which can be seen on a few clips. I originally chose those spikes to foof around, and ride snow covered ice, but hoped they would work with these guys, they didn't. I ended up just tearing up the ice on their track.

I am now studding a set of rear tires with Kold Kutters and am planning a rematch with the bikes. My quad has plenty of motor and will do much better with a little traction. The tune is from Fu Mancho and you may remember was used in Huevos 4 video ice racing segment. I got out the swivel cam but didn't aim it right again...

 

Nice! I like it.