recumbent downhill by AZUB recumbent

[honzagalla]

I would say that incredibly stupid are you. I can very easily turnon two meters, can climb the highest road pass on the world, speed down faster than many cyclist and faster than many MTB riders on rock roads and my Qeen Marry is probably of same lenght as your bike.

Your problem is that you have probably seen just wrong recumbent riders and never had a chance to ride with fast and skilled recumbent riders. As I wrote I do not think bent is the best bike for downhill, but you can do it.

[garzascreek]

@honzagalla Don't let the ignorant comments of these kids get to you. As someone who has ridden off-road for 35 years and recumbent for 2 years they have no clue how difficult it is what you can do. If these guys rode 4 hours a day it would take many months for them to reach your level of skill. I don't know why they are so aggressively jealous. Everything is all competition and group-think with them, almost as bad a road weenies. So funny since off-roaders were the original iconoclasts.

[duanedragon2]

An off-road recumbent is one of the god-damned dumbest things I have ever heard of. 'Bents ride like a runaway shopping cart and make triathletes bike handling skills look like Hans Rey. The bikes don't climb, don't turn, can't descend fast, have a Queen Mary sized turning circle, are as heavy as 2 real bikes, look like a portable sawmill.

Just incredibly stupid.

[Skakhti]

One of the most metal things I've ever seen.

[tlhurlbu]

Let me start by saying I'm open minded.

First - this is not downhill - there are more treacherous downhills in beginner level cross country races. So untag "downhill", or keep getting laughed at.

Second of all - way to go highlighting that 6 inch "drop off" that you did (and landed all front wheel on, besides)

Three - MTB tours ≠ downhill. Period.

Four - You've succeeded in creating a cycling sport that makes the operator look as lame as someone on roller blades. *slow clap*

[uwdan]

when my can of weak sauce runs out, i will get a refill here.

[darkgoo2]

Oh man... a new candidate for the shit bike moniker!

[davegmca]

You forgot your orange flags on giant bendy poles.

[DeathFromAbove1985]

this shit is mad gay.

[EmptyTheRoom]

you look like you're struggling there buddyy..

[detective365]

So what happens when you hit your first uphill rock garden? Or what if you encounter a log that you need to bunny hop/manual over? Or a step up? Are you doing this just to say you can, or do you honestly expect people to believe that "recumbent MTB" will become something more than a retarded pipe dream?

When was the last time you saw a swimmer swim feet first and call it an achievement? Never, because it's not realistic.

[dan32123dan]

Wow, just wow. This is like when jackass took scooters offroading. Sure they showed it could be done, but they looked like idiots in the process. The difference is they ment to have that outcome.

[madryan1976]

gayest thing I've ever seen.

[coolsauce2102]

do a barrel roll

[TheLowestfi]

No search results on youtube atm for “recumbent bunnyhop" or "recumbent bunny hop"

Has it been done?

[bellinghamster]

my granpa has one of those bikes

[uwdan]

@bellinghamster ha ha that is great. your granpa should post to the youtubes

[ThePsch]

so stupid. hold on tight kids! peform a serious log hop and ill watch another 30 seconds. dont just bobble down a hill.

[trevorhartman]

that looks so retarded

[veronak]

seems like a really great way to destroy your prostate, i guess.

[mtbpozz]

where's the downhill part? I've seen tougher trails batter tackled by rollerbladers. You should have called this "Freecumbant riding!"

[amishrob]

do a bunnyhop

[1lsold]

this is ridiculous... booo

[ednavococksinvaleIII]

thats just a really bad idea. this isnt cool at all adn when you get into more advanced riding it becomes all about moving your body around to controll the bike. you just cant do that on a recumbent bike why would you even want to try to make this?

[honzagalla]

@ednavococksinvaleIII - I wonder if you have ever ridden recumbent. Of course recumbents will never be a pure mountain bikes, but you can move with your body much more than you think. You can sit in the seat, move from left to right, use your legs to change the centre of gravity etc. etc. In long single tracks or on very bad roads in downhills recumbent can be so fast you can hardly imagine. And I know that from my own experience because I guided several serious MTB tours on recumbent.

[Bushwackerinpa]

@honzagalla

if you can guide it on a recubant its not a serious MTB tour. My local trails have enough hopping moves that this would be useless.

[gearhead22996]

that looks fricken scary but soooooo awesome!

[Wormtail81]

If you wreak, you are going down.

[manequito55]

Stupid

[vonshed]

recumbent=LAME

recumbent is to mt biking as rollerblading is to skateboarding

Sorry I know you spent a lot of time on this, but its just the truth.

Nuff said

[menamiketrx]

This without a doubt is the best production bike out there venturing into recumbent off-road. I have built my own off-road recumbent and can attest that the minute you go recumbent you limit the amount that you can do off-road compared to regular mtb. But for me, I can no longer ride in the traditional position, thus recumbent is my solution to getting back out on the trails. See my channel for my vid of the bike I built. It works, but I would rather have an Azub though.

[AshlingsWorld]

Wow nice skills, I recently started riding 'bent and was curious about what could be done offroad, I guess you've proved that!

[flyinoctopi]

GAY sorry but its GAY

[honzagalla]

This is your opinion. I did not make any motion faster and noboday say that recumbents are as fast or faster than the common bicycles. We show here that it is possible...

[neverhadachoice]

It's possible for me to tape a rodent to a lear-jet and then claim that I've made a squirrel-plane, but it's still fucking retarded.

Seriously, this is stupid. It looks unco-ordinated, uncomfortable, unwieldy and like someone's trying to do something with something it was blatantly not designed for.

I can use an old shoe or a glass bottle to hammer in a nail if I try hard enough, it's still not a good idea.

[MmmmYeahSure]

@honzagalla Sure, it is also possible to do downhill or offroad on a unicycle, but that also is a stupid idea. I also think this set up would lend itself to foot injuries to lower extremities and to backs.

[bigguyoz]

Lame! Slow motion without camera trickery. Sure it takes special skill, but so does eating 20 eggs in a minute... doesn't stop it being lame

[Deinacrida]

Very cool. Still, for pure long duration riding pleasure a recumbent on the flat. For short burst hooning a mtn bike for tracks. Nice vid.

[parallax7d]

man was not meant to navigate feet first, but it looks fun. Probably more safe too since you just fall on your bum.

[andreagattonero]

Yes the guy has skills, as its not easy to handle a Recumbent on offroad terrain.

But look at the speed, any XC bike would go twice as fast; if you use a Trail (not talking about proper FR/DH bikes) you just FLY on such track :)

Search videos with Sam Hill, o Gee Atherton and see how FAST they go ;)

[Zer0peas]

This guy has some skills. Most traditional downhill bikers would never be able to do this.

[bigringabuser]

@Zer0peas are you phucking nuts? Have this guy come out with any downhiller with more than a months experience and this clown will be in a wheelchair for life! Just because you can doesn't mean you should and this is a perfect example of fail in action.

[CoyoteBoyUK]

Looks distinctly ungainly and not very fast with it! Still, rather you than me - im sure its exciting.

[marcelomontanhista]

The suspension works very well!

[bentrider1957]

Nice bike. If I did that on my Rans, I'd be on my ass in seconds flat. Of course I have 1" tyres, so what can you expect?

[DustinPurplePirate]

Recumbents are great on flats, rolling hills, into headwind and awesome on downhills. Not being able to unweight the bike slows down everything considerably on offroad terrain.

This video makes recumbents slow and awkward. I don't doubt the quality of Azub but an amateur video of downhill riders on DF bikes would be alot more exciting.

People considering recumbents should look at the Col de Braus to Sospel video. That is what bent riding is for me. Fast, smooth and comfortable.

[uncletam]

very impressed!! what model of recumbent was that?

[alexanderkamermans]

as the link in the film says it is an Azub ;)

[NMERider]

Nice promo vid!