>Able to regularly reach speeds of 30-40mph (48-64 km/h)
>Yet nobody rides them
What went wrong?

>>2044118 (OP)
I have steep hills, they look gay and i dont like being in a small confined hot space.

>>2044119
>I have steep hills
Hills are the enemy of every bicycle, not just recumberants

>>2044121
>Hills are the enemy of every bicycle
Wrong. I can easily ride up a hill with 5kph or slower. You cant do that on a recumbant.

>>2044122
I think that's just because all recumberant bikes use thin tires and have no low gears. I think someone should make one with both of these things and see how well she climbs

>>2044122
>Wrong. (Post)
You write like a redditard.
Chill your penis, faggot, this is not the debate club.

>>2044124
Woah buddy chill out my man. No need to get agressive buddy.
I know that you love your homosexual recumbant bike and club you ride in but the disadvantages simply outplay the advantages. Oh there is only one advantage and thats straight line speed.

>>2044130
I am not the recumbent bike guy, I'm just calling you out for starting your post with a reddit mannerism.
Recumbent bikes (which you can't even spell correctly) are pretty much useless in the real world.

>>2044122
It is stupidly hard to do on a recumbent. You can not go as slow as you can on an upright bicycle.
>>2044119
Hills are sort of solved problem if you dont mind being a degenrate motorist you can just have pedal assist that makes sure you dont drop below 10 or whatever.
>What went wrong
There's many ugly things about those,like ventilation. Storage. Etc.
But the truth is: (((Motorists))).
Yep, as always. They will try to main and kill you when you're on an upright. They will figure 'I didn't see them' is "credible" in even more situations when the victim is in an recumbent. Add to that the fact that you can not bail.

>>2044118 (OP)
on a normal bike, your legs and arm are parts of the suspension
but on these, your spine is part of the suspension
hence, rectumbent

now that we've established how highly regarded recumbents are, why don't more bikes have fairings at the front?
They'd be more aerodynamic, keep off 90% of the rain, and you could still ride your bike normally.
Only drawback would be a few pounds of weight.

>>2044162
something like this

>>2044118 (OP)
>>2044121
>>2044123
why do you keep saying "recum-ber-ant?"

Roadies FEAR the Recumberant Chad

>>2044162
You're wording this as if recumbents implied fairings. Both are independent things that just so happen to be often implemented together.
The answer lies in the last sentence: Divergence from tradition is a slippery slope, which is why many recumbents have fairings or bikes with fairings are recumbents.
Cycling just so happens to be one of the most traditionalist activities / markets out there. Before the UCI brought out the banhammer plenty of people demonstrated how much about the traditional bicycle is suboptimal and can easily be improved on.
In the end normies don't know and care, they just get what is conventional. And convention turns out to be what is traditional and also what the UCI allows. Even some people who dont race insist on riding UCI legal bikes and basically 'what the pros got' since they want ro look the part and also be able to compare their experience and perhaps even performance to others.
So. Here we are. Diamond frames, 700c wheels, no fairings.

>>2044315
All racing larpers should be deported to /sp/ desu. Transportation is about utility and function over form, not dressing up in lycra and posing as a professional cyclist. Dunno how this board got infested by sports and fitness fags who seethe over anything that isn't a road bike.

>>2044118 (OP)
I don't like the fact that they have "cum" in the name.

>>2044319
Because its the natural progression of people who actually like cycling, I can’t fucking stand you fat retarded faggots who are allergic to exercise. id happily post on literally any other board to avoid you fucking retards always crying about road bikes and exercise
Its pathetic

>>2044290
If the UCI allowed recumbents in the Tour de France, they'd just be in the way and annoy everyone for 1 day, then get caught by the broom wagon and drop out in the first real stage.
Can't draft, can't pull, can't sprint, can't climb, can't signal, can't see shit, can't bunny-hop, can't bring spare bikes.
Recumbent drivers are better off in their own races, watched only by their wives and their wives' kids, cause it's not very exciting to see colored eggs roll over a closed circuit.

>>2044339
You're saying this as though the Tour de France is somehow exciting with just regular bicycles (it isn't) bicycle sports unless it's BMX is a meme

>>2044339
Based take. I also never saw a recumbent race on public roads? Its always a closed track or something.
I do appreciate the tech tho. Pushing aerodynamics to the max and trying to create the fastest manpowered vehicle is kinda based too.

>>2044337
Go start a cycling for fitness thread on /fit/ or a competitive cycling thread on /sp/ then. My bike is a vehicle that TRANSPORTS me from point A to point B.

>>2044341
>I also never saw a recumbent race on public roads?
IIRC OPs pic was taken on State Route 305 in Nevada, which is known to host The World Human Powered Speed Challenge because it's an exceptionally flat and long straightaway

>>2044347
Transport your dick into a blender fatty

>>2044340
just tell me you have never ridden a bicycle properly
Once you start riding, cycling becomes increasingly interesting to watch because you understand how difficult it is instead of thinking they just turn their legs and go forward
its like. its for people who are interested in the sport not for adhd children who think no backflips = not cool
seems to be plenty of interest and money in it because its still happening

>>2044340
I see you have not witnessed the unfathomable depths of kinomess of track cycling.

>>2044354
>>2044358
The Tour de France isn't actually about bicycle racing because the UCI has a bunch of retarded rules around things like forbidding time trial helmets because they run hotter for the rider which puts some other cyclists who don't want to endure that out of the race. If it was about cycling then they would just let the best build teams win. It's just a fitness competition that happens to use bikes

>>2044319
They won't follow the order as then they would have to actually train and compete.

>>2044350
Wouldn't that be the battle. mountain event or am I confusing things?

>>2044337
You can do both, you know. You can even ACTUALLY train and compete AND use your bike to go places.

>>2044118 (OP)
>cant see anything
>cant come to a stop without falling over
>gets wrecked by the slightest cross wind
>poor ventilation
>ungodly price
>turning circle from hell

Thinking about it this question reminds me of the days when I competed in TT. I had a different mindset back then and I went to school on the TT bike, later to uni. Simply because the 'logic' was: It is the most efficient bicycle in my posession. Why would I want to waste extra effort for the same distance / speed. Oh well and maybe the fact that I found it kinda cool.
Turns out there's more to cycling than just getting from point A to B with the least effort. Turns out you eventually get wiser and shift focus. Turns out you need to become a dad first, go to the ER a few times and see friends be less lucky before you learn you can also get on a bicycle and not compulsively exert yourself and create one potentially lethal situation after another.
So yeah, maybe hardly anyone rides those things as their daily because hardly anyone went that far on the speed arc because hardly anyone is stuck in their teens that long.

>>2044118 (OP)
Ucl banning any bike that isn't a diamond frame. It's like asking why F1 still uses open wheels even though full fairings are objectively better.

>>2044795
open wheels are more aero than full fairings

>>2044339
when and why did the tour de france ban recumbent bieks?

Recumbent bikes were effectively banned from the Tour de France and all UCI-sanctioned races in 1934. The reason? They were just too good.

long store short: you're a retard, kill yourself

>>2044850
open wheel F1 tires are definately NOT more aerodynamic than full fairings. Like I said.

>>2044136
People came together and spent trillions of dollars on roads so they can drive cars on them and so trucks can transport goods not so a gay person can do their leisure activities on them.

>>2044898
>not so a gay person can do their leisure activities on them.
Is there a lot of gay sex on public roads where you live?
Do you participate? Or only watch through binoculars while you touch yourself?

There's so much better ways still. Vut you're not ready for that conversation.

>>2044898
That is very odd, how can it be that (you) are objectively wrong? You didbt expect that. Roads existed for millenia before the motorvehicle was invented and the LGBT crowd started using and abusing the it.
One could also thibk you're trying to imply motorists alone paid for the roads. But that too would be wrong again and society as a whole is forced in most jurisdictions to subsidise motorism and other LGBT activities.