Honda’sAfrica Twin adventure bikeis known as a capable go-anywhere tool for riders looking to get off the beaten track, but even experienced riders will usually weigh their options when it comes to riding in or on snow and ice. That is, unless you’re FIM Enduro World and Honda CRF250RX rider Mirabet Vidiella, and you have access to some custom-made spiked tires that make riding on a frozen lake a wonderland of wheelies, power slides and speed.

In the video below, Mirabet is on a marathon drive in a van headed for Sweden, where racing motorcycles on ice is as common as racing on dirt in many other countries. But traditionally, “ice racing” has been done onsingle-speed, specially designed Jawa motorcyclesprepped specifically for the sport, although theconcept has spreadto other bikeson occasion.

Mirabet explores the idea some of us have certainly entertained when faced with a frozen surface: Why not give it a go with some of those eviscerating ice racing tires spooned onto a big adventure bike? The results, beginning at the four-minute mark, are suitably awe-inspiring.

The spikey tires hook the Honda to a frozen Swedish lake with merciless tenacity, enabling monster wheelies, plumes of snow roost, lurid dirt-track-style (one-handed!) power slides, that-ain’t-natural lean angles and some AT air time off small jumps. Mirabet’s smooth and practiced riding style makes it look easy; suffice to say it isn’t that easy.

A side-trip (at :45) in the video toLasses Rally Service in Swedenshows exactly how the spikes get installed in the tires by legendary proprietor Lasse Jansson, who has been building ice bike tires for ice racers since way back in 1984.

Another pre-ice-ride detour (at :15) ends up at aCAKE electric motorcycle companyshowroom, where Mirabet pops a CAKE Ösa Plus electric motorcycle into his van next to the Africa Twin. The Ösa Plus is an unusual (but definitely very Swedish) electric motorcycle I’ve had the chance to ride at length, but never on ice, so here’s hoping that might be a future episode. Or maybe he just needed a really artful utility bike for riding around his hometown, who knows.

Mirabet will be back in action on the dirt soon, check out the fullinternational enduro racing calendar here. When you’re faced with a frozen riding surface (or just snow and ice in general), what’s your usual riding plan? Sit it out until it melts? Slip and slide your way through? Buy a tire spiking setup? Let us know in comments.