Nose wheelie to get off a uss

[carcassonne]

Here's a web page I found today. It is a French dealer of the Optima recumbents. That specific page below is about the pros and cons of recumbents and other interesting stuff. It's all in French. Of note, two photos. One of a guy doing a nose wheelie to get off his recumbent, and another one of a guy doing some MTB stuff, a plain wheelie in this case and supposedly he did not fall. The rest of the page has lots of recumbents pictures. For those who read French, the text is quite interesting.

I've also attached the two pictures to this message.

Nice bikes, those Optima. But expensive.

http://www.optima-cycles.com/infos/infos.html

Cheers.

[Trsnrtr]

I can do the same with my Fujin SL2. I'm sure that it puts a lot of stress on my fork and headset, though.

[Wheelchairman]

http://www.trisled.com.au/images/Jump.jpg

http://www.trisled.com.au/images/jump2.JPG

Strength testing the Trisleds :)

[carcassonne]

What can I say. Wow. I'm hoping to feel as comfortable as that with the recumbent one of these days. Up to now I considered recumbents as a stable road bike, not something you could do stunts or pseudo-stunts with. Seeing people doing that kind of stuff is a refreshing view of the machine.

Cheers.

[Recumbomatic]

Those extreme offroading guys in the pictures have their own website, I've seen it but I can't find the link.

Azub and Hase recumbents (and a few others) can do some pretty wicked stuff in the dirt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVpw2QYupQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_IdRj-VGw