
Imagine standing over the crossbar at the top of a steep chute, nothing under your tires but ice. At the starting gun, you drop straight down to pick up speed then launch off a ramp over a 13-foot step-up jump — still on solid ice, mind you! — and your 45-second race has just begun.
Last Saturday night, in St. Paul., Minn., five bikers became the first in the United States to compete on a course designed for Red Bull Crashed Ice skating competitions.
Red Bull Crashed Ice courses take skaters over jumps, drops, wall rides and around obstacles on a narrow ice track. Five people compete at once, leading to some wild wipeouts.


Biker Matt Ford (pictured above) took second-place in the race, an exhibition of sorts squeezed in between the main ice-skating action. With studded tires on his Framed Cycles Minnesota 2.0 fat bike, he raced against another fat bike, a BMX bike, and a full-suspension mountain bike.
We talked with Ford to learn about the insane race on ice. Check out the video below to see his POV footage from the event.

