Skike

Skike (. Engl of skate and bike ) is a sports equipment manufacturer in the field of skike Sports International Ltd. of cross skates. They are suitable for locomotion outside of paved roads on mild to moderate terrain. You will be driven using only sticks and thus belong to the Nordic sports, such as the Nordic ( Cross) Skating.

Construction

Skikes are Kate Cross, the only ever have two wheels as opposed to inline skates, each located before and behind the foot. Skikes be factory- supplied with air-filled 15 -inch tires. Unlike some other cross Kates Skikes do not have a built-in shoe, but have a shoe mount on any shoe can be fixed by means of buckles. The Skikemodelle to skike V07 and V07 PLUS skike use Velcro fasteners for fixing the shoes, while the models skike solo vX and vX Twin skike use ratchet straps. Skikes both sides have powerful relapse brakes, which are served by the calf. With them, a delay of up to 6.5 m/s2 is possible. Is currently the only model of the manufacturer, the model Skike vX Twin has an additional folding rail on which the shoe is fixed to the movable frame and thus enables locomotion in the classic cross-country skiing technique.

Use

Skikes be used as sports equipment for travel on paved and unpaved roads, and in light to moderate terrain. Since the shoe at skike is not integrated in the frame, the Skikes can be pulled out easily in impassable terrain. Skikes are usually used together with sticks that support the propulsion. This combined use is also called Nordic skating. Nordic skating poles are longer than Nordic walking poles. The movement largely corresponds to the skating technique of cross-country skiing.

History

As the inventor of Skikes applies the Austrian Otto Eder. Looking for an opportunity to ride in-line skates off the trail, he developed his first 1997 Cross skates. This Cross Kate had already all important components of today's Skikes, including pneumatic tyred wheels and a calf brake. They were equipped with large wheels and still weighed over 4 kg. In 1999, the Model Mountain Kate switching to smaller wheel diameter. Today Skikes as most cross skates with pneumatic tires ( 6x1, 25 inches ) 150 mm outside diameter x 30 (32 ) mm wide with earlier 7.0 bar and 7.5 bar from January 2013 maximum pressure. They weigh so after execution ( without shoe) per pair 3.9 to 5.6 kg. Skikes in children's size have - as well as a few cross Kates types - 125 mm tires. The tires are mounted with separate hose whose car valve in a bent tube similar to tire of trucks or wheelbarrows. During installation of the wheel is to orient to the valve so that it can not hook during forward travel. According to the high pressure and a small diameter is more common, for example, weekly replenish air.

Series production obtained the Cross Kate Otto Eder in 2000 under the name skike. In the following years the product lines V03, V05, V07 were developed. As a new development followed in 2011 the Skikes the vX series. In late summer 2012, the range was supplemented by the based on the V07 skike V07 PLUS, with improved frame geometry.