Drift battle: bike vs buggy… on ice

Drifting a buggy is a careful balancing act between steering angle and throttle input. Whereas, on a bike, it's literally a scary balancing act.

And that's on tarmac. When you add a big, open frozen lake into the equation, the act of sideways - especially on a topple two-wheeler - becomes a scary, unpredictable battle of physics versus friction. And that's before you even consider getting peppered with grenades. Yes, grenades.

Welcome, then, to the helpful new consumer advice video from the wonderfully unhinged chaps at StuntFreaksTeam.

Click 'play' above to see Juha Ruokolainen straddling a GSX-R1000 superbike (with very spiked tyres, we might add) while throwing down the gauntlet to Jani Ylipahkala in a Polaris RZR buggy. In a battle of 'what-looks-best-going-sideways-on-ice?', both machines bounce off their rev limiters incessantly as their spiked tyres scrabble for grip on sheet ice. With slow-motion pirouettes, monster drifts and high speed hooning, it's all very nice to look at. But when a grenade-wielding ice fisher is rudely disturbed, things get a bit, er, KABOOM-y. And look even better.

The obligatory safety warning: please, please don't drive on frozen lakes, especially while dodging grenades and/or battling a drifting motorbike. That's why the internet was invented, kids: so someone else can do it and have their wrists slapped instead...