---
title: "This Snow-Bike Concept Is Baffling and Totally Badass"
description: "S&M on a ski-track."
date: "2016-04-22"
modified: "2016-04-22"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/design/3149/this-snow-bike-concept-is-baffling-and-totally-badass"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "concept car"
  - "Joey Ruiter"
  - "motorcycle"
  - "Snowmobile"
---

# This Snow-Bike Concept Is Baffling and Totally Badass

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What you’re looking at is the latest design concept from [Joey Ruiter](<https://jruiter.com/>). Unlike his firm’s other recent concept vehicles, an off-road buggy and ice-cycle, this one does not have wheels. Instead, it has a single ski-track. He calls it the Snoped (read: “snow-ped”) for fairly obvious reasons. It is very, very black. After watching the promotional video three times, I’m still not entirely sure why it exists. But I want one. Badly.

Who *wouldn’t* want one? According to the spec sheet, the body is six inches wide, a little over six feet long, and made from lightweight aluminum and composite materials. The motor is an exposed 90cc job; the track is simply listed as “1980/something Chrysler Sno-runner.” It is a harsh, industrial thing that might be fast but probably isn’t. No matter. The Snoped looks like an old IBM computer crossbred with a large caliber machine gun magazine, or maybe a bespoke wintertime cafe racer for the missing third member of Daft Punk. It is the embodiment of minimalist weird-cool.

Check out the video below and revel in its glory.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/160372380

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