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The Finnish variant is a Stiga Jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU (The video starts pretty slowly, an
by ptaipale 12y ago
The Finnish variant is a Stiga Jet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU
(The video starts pretty slowly, and doesn't provide much info about how that was built, but it looks fun. There are also plenty of more scaled-up projects, basically looking like combining a ski-doo with a V-1 rocket).
(I actually used a kicksled in the winters to go to school, until I got a moped.)
- Thlom 12y agoIn some parts of Norway they only clear snow from half of the sidewalk so you can use kicksled on the other half.
- ptaipale 12y agoThat is nice. Particularly when my kids were small, I would have liked to take them to the daycare in a toboggan, but the pavements were always ruined with grit.
- drderidder 12y agoWhat is a kicksled??? I want one already! [update] wow...found one, the kickspark! Awesome. http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php
- ptaipale 12y agoThat's the modern sports variant. The traditional one is better suited for transporting stuff and one or even two passengers as well: http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html In good conditions this can be amazingly fast, and two people can alternate so that one pushes the sled and the other one rests on the seat.