The Demolition Dudes are taking on the Raging Racers in a race that will send a chill up your spine. Each team will have to build a bike that will move them along a 50 foot long track on solid ice. It's a 4 leg relay race as one team member will travel up the ice, hand off to a team mate...repeat that two more time until all 4 team members have changed places. First team to finish advances to Round Three. If neither team can complete all four legs, then the team that has travelled the farthest total distance wins. There are two catches though. Firstly, no engines. Second, the machines can only have one wheel touching the ice surface.

The Raging Racers (red team) are going to use a whole bicycle frame with the rear wheel covered with chain and spike plates for traction. They will have two ice skates in the front for steering and two half-skis on the sides for stability. Oh, if you're wondering why you haven't seen this team before...you're right. They were winners from the first round in an episode that didn't air. In THIS PICTURE they are (clockwise from top left) Captain Ian, Marc, Dave and Nick.

The Demolition Dudes (blue team) will use half of a bicycle frame and hand build the front half complete with steering wheel. For traction, they're going to wrap a piece of steel around the wheel and attach it with bolts. The bolts (plus spike pads) should provide pretty good traction.
 
 

The red team found 2 clocks for 10 minutes engineer time	Blue has also found 2 clocks and they get 10 minutes as well
The Red design	The Blue Design
The blues are thinking about this half-bicycle and the gears	Red is going to re-attach the two halves of their bike
These plates with little spikes get welded to the wheel for gripping	Blue goes with a funky steering wheel
Red decided to add spike plates	The teams are ready to race
Red is off to a fast start	Blue is struggling with their gears
Red hands off for leg #2	Blue continues to have trouble peddling and steering
Team mate #3 is cruising	Blue has the hang of it...
...but it's too little to late! Red takes it home with ease	Even though Red won, blue finishes the race anyway

 
 
 

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