Originally Posted by DrIsotope

I jumped ahead to about the 5-minute mark in that video... and while I readily admit to having little knowledge and no practical experience with recumbents, everything about that Cruzbike looks terrifying. It looks scary going in a straight line, scary climbing a slight grade, and when he started going downhill... no thanks. It may well be fast. But a top-fuel dragster is pretty fast, at the expense of being tremendously impractical.