# Super Recumbent!
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028
**Category:** Pub
**Created:** [May 1, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028 "2011-05-01T16:25:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Rooster](https://fixed.org.au/u/Rooster)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/1 "2011-05-01T16:25:56Z")
This rolled into work on Saturday so I thought I’d take some photos.
It’s essentially a recumbent, but designed to go significantly faster than a regular recumbent. From memory it’s referred to as an ‘Extreme Lo/wracer’ - in regards to the angle of the crank location at the front. It has quill stems for handle bars,a carbon seat, Campagnolo Vento rear wheel, 80-something-tooth front chainring and has been clocked at 100km/h downhill (by the owner). Oh, did I mention it’s SS coupled and can pull apart and fit in a suitcase in under 3 minutes? Well, it can.
All this in mind, recumbents are still uncool.
More photos [here.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/fame_and_spear/sets/72157626489115329/with/5671862481/)
Begin recumbent hate-fest.
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### Author:  [@b.dub](https://fixed.org.au/u/b.dub)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/2 "2011-05-01T17:31:50Z")
There is nothing extreme, racer or super about this, it is just another recumbent.
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### Author:  [@mr\_dylan](https://fixed.org.au/u/mr_dylan)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/3 "2011-05-01T19:16:12Z")
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
I know recumbents aren’t easy to find in your lbs, and that’s probably the only thing that’s stopped me from getting one.
I reblogged one on my tumblr the other day (was one of my first posts)
I’ll get a pic.
The green one is cooler though
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### Author:  [@mr\_dylan](https://fixed.org.au/u/mr_dylan)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/4 "2011-05-01T19:17:17Z")
Also I love that they’re front wheel drive!
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://fixed.org.au/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/5 "2011-05-01T19:22:44Z")
This isn’t a machine for bike messengers, or hipsters, or commuters, or track racers, or TT racers, or MTB riders, or cyclocross freaks. It is a machine that is designed for one thing – going very, very fast in a straight line on a flat road. Personally, I admire its purity of purpose and the high quality of the engineering that went into making it. I think its very interesting and attractive, in the same way as a F1 car. The fact that it’s a recumbent is irrelevant – that’s simply the configuration that is best for this purpose.
It’s not a machine that you’ll ever see in a familiar cycling environment — so the fact that the rider would look like a knob if he rode it on the road or a bike path is also irrelevant. I think the sight of a rider pushing the bike to its limit on a straight, flat piece of closed road would be deeply cool.
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### Author:  [@P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/u/P_N20)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/6 "2011-05-01T19:51:23Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> It is a machine that is designed for one thing – going very, very fast in a straight line on a flat road.
I’m guessing the panniers have negated this.
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### Author:  [@nexus](https://fixed.org.au/u/nexus)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/7 "2011-05-01T20:06:50Z")
Been done before… same colour even…
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### Author:  [@Gordy](https://fixed.org.au/u/Gordy)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/8 "2011-05-01T20:12:02Z")
> [@P\_N20](#):
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> I’m guessing the panniers have negated this.
Parachutes have to go somewhere. 🙂
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://fixed.org.au/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/9 "2011-05-01T20:16:04Z")
P!N20 said “I’m guessing the panniers have negated this”.
I wondered about that too. It certainly looks like panniers. Maybe the owner of the bike decided to try using it as a commuter bike and doesn’t mind looking like a knob. I think the rider will look like (if not actually be) a knob if he uses the bike for commuting, because it’s so incredibly unsuitable for that purpose. The awkward riding position (the handlebars are above the rider’s head), poor visibility for the rider, low visibility of the bike for other vehicles ('coz its so damn low), very narrow steering arc (limited by how far the chain can twist), and other compromises mean it is totally impractical as a commuter.
A machine that’s designed for a particular purpose (e.g. a Mercedes Unimog) will often look very stupid if it’s used for something that it isn’t suitable for (e.g. on a racetrack) — but within the limits of its design purpose it is very cool.
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### Author:  [@P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/u/P_N20)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/10 "2011-05-01T20:18:46Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> I think the rider would look like (if not actually be) a knob if he/she uses the bike for that purpose, because the bike is so incredibly unsuitable for that purpose.
Kinda like fixed gear track bikes.
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### Author:  [@HeavyMetalCyclist](https://fixed.org.au/u/HeavyMetalCyclist)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/11 "2011-05-01T20:48:09Z")
Yeh but you can’t do mad bar rooter skids down Collins st on that thing.
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### Author:  [@b.dub](https://fixed.org.au/u/b.dub)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/12 "2011-05-01T20:50:03Z")
I can just picture the chain snapping and whipping the rider in the face.
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### Author:  [@DaFROG](https://fixed.org.au/u/DaFROG)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/13 "2011-05-01T21:40:55Z")
I’ve actualy seen one of the ones in the OP (same colour in fact) cruising along nelson place in williamstown and yes the guy riding/driving it did look like a knob.
The top tube is actually off set and the driver/riders head actually sticks up past it like in B.dubs pic but higher, making forward vision slightly better than a monowheel
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### Author:  [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/14 "2011-05-01T21:56:15Z")
OMG it’s true- Recumbent has become the new fixed… proven by the fact this thread has not yet been deleted! 😃
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### Author:  [@CheapFixed](https://fixed.org.au/u/CheapFixed)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/15 "2011-05-01T22:21:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Dave\_S](https://fixed.org.au/u/Dave_S)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/16 "2011-05-01T22:27:24Z")
> [@Rooster](#):
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> All this in mind, recumbents are still uncool.
Are you sure?
[YouTube - Sam Whittingham, World’s fastest cyclist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUPjlLFzm0)
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### Author:  [@hotdoghorny](https://fixed.org.au/u/hotdoghorny)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/17 "2011-05-01T22:48:03Z")
i like how - on the more traditional recumbents - it always looks like you’re rippin’ a wheelie.
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### Author:  [@moffmoff](https://fixed.org.au/u/moffmoff)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/18 "2011-05-01T23:08:35Z")
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### Author:  [@mercury](https://fixed.org.au/u/mercury)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/19 "2011-05-01T23:14:50Z")
> [@horatio](#):
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> OMG it’s true- Recumbent has become the new fixed… proven by the fact this thread has not yet been deleted! 😃
Saw a fully-enclosed aero-clad one on the park st bike path crossing at the ped lights on Nicholson st on Saturday morning.
Something is stirring in the inner north…
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### Author:  [@The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/u/The_JAMS)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/super-recumbent/51028/20 "2011-05-02T00:14:52Z")
> [@nexus](#):
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> Been done before… same colour even…
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nexus FTW. Lollin!
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