recumbent downhill by AZUB recumbent

Many people think, that recumbents are just ready for asphalt roads and flatlands. But this is not true...

http://www.azub.cz

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Sports

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• recumbent
• azub
• adventure
• downhill
• bike
• velomobile

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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*

[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.

[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.

[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.

[uwdan]

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

[uwdan]

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