This Motorcycle With Snowmobile Tracks Is The Most Overkill Way To Navigate Sand And Snow

This Motorcycle With Snowmobile Tracks Is The Most Overkill Way To Navigate Sand And Snow

Motorcycle maker Christini has applied its expertise in building two-wheel drive bikes to a new snow-thrashing machine called the II-Track Snow Bike system.

This Motorcycle With Snowmobile Tracks Is The Most Overkill Way To Navigate Sand And Snow

Half-motorcycle-half-snowmobile hybrids aren’t a new idea. For years bikers have been able to buy upgrade kits that swap out a motorcycle’s back tyre for a spiked tread that digs into snow, and the front tyre with a ski, letting them easily ride through deep powder without sinking.

What sets Christini’s AWD II-Track apart from the competition is that instead of only having a ski up front, the company is including a second powered tread with the upgrade kit that sits between the bike’s front forks to greatly improve traction, steering agility and the motorcycle’s ability to brake in slippery conditions. The front tread will also be adjustable so that riders can ensure optimal traction on hard-packed snow, fresh powder or even mud and sand. If your morning commute includes traversing a beach every day, you can actually use this setup all year round.

There’s no pricing for Christini’s II-Track Snow Bike system just yet, but since it’s an upgrade kit you’ll need to already have one of Christini’s AWD motorcycles in your garage, which start at $9995, to ensure that front tread gets the power it needs to plow through snow.

[Christini via designboom]


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