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Cycling to the South Pole...
An adventurer called Doug Stoup is preparing for an Antarctic expedition - on a serious ice-bike!
Doug's bike, created by Dan Hanebrink uses wide low-pressure tyres to handle the ice...
More at Wired News, and on Doug's expedition homepage at ICEAXE TV. He seems to be a very serious expeditioner type, judging by his bio page. We wish him best of luck...
Not to be confused of course with the excellent Icebike website where you can read all you ever wanted to know about safe and comfortable winter cycling...
Thanks to Jean Anderson for the link.
Posted on 17 January 2003
Your comments ...| From: Ralf Grosser (Buzz [email protected]) on 18 January 2003 |
This is interesting news indeed.
There already is a bike on the southpol.
This is at the newsealand Station.
The bike is a Brompton, that was flown in , to be used by a scientist as transport between several experimentation stations.
Maybe he could meet his other cyclist
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| From: Ralf Grosser (Buzz [email protected]) on 18 January 2003 |
I wrote to the cycleists website about the Brompton the answer was as Follows
Ralf
Ralf,
Thanks for writing...
I adding some information on the website
about other bikes in Antarctica.
Bikes in Antarctica
While there have been bikes on the continent of Antarctica before, they have
mainly been used as short range transportation from one building to another.
Doug is hoping to be the first to traverse long distances on the continent
(solo and unsupported) -- dragging all of his supplies on an attached sled.
In 2000, the CARA Snowbike, or "Ice Prowler" design by Bill Farrell and
students at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh made some Antarctic tracks with
Steve Butler at the handle bars. Andre Phillips rode a "Brompton" at the
South Pole in 1998. That particular bike as been lugged around from Halley
Base ('95) to McMurdo Station (present). And currently a Czech cyclist,
Lucie Kovarikova, is attempting to bike the world (including eventually
Antarctica).
Tony Caravan
ICEAXE.tv
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| From: Ralf Grosser ([email protected]) on 20 January 2003 |
After I brought the subject of other bikes on the pole to Doug Stoup and his teams attention, they have now added some info on polar bikes to the expedition site. |
| From: Peter Eland ([email protected]) on 20 January 2003 |
Thanks Ralf. There are some more details of Lucie Kovarikova's ride at
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/26934
and about the Ice Prowler project at:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/outreach/bike/
Cheers!
Peter |
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