AZUB recumbent in the world highest road pass

Khardung-La is pretty known pass just 40 kilemeters away from Leh, Ladakh, India. It is called as the highest motorable pass all over the world with height of 5350 meters above the sea level. Our marketing manager Honza Galla has travelled with his wife in Indian Himalayas fro three weeks with AZUB Mini and AZUB trike (both folding prototypes) and he managed to reach this pass with the AZUB Mini. It took him 9 hours and later only one and half hours to get back to Leh.

You can read more about their journeyas on AZUB recumbents on their web www.galla.cz

New rear fork for Top line

Back in 2006 we introduced new rear asymetrical fork for our recumbents which has been absolutely outstanding in recumbent bussines. It was developed with great czech bicycle (mostly MTB)  company which has long term experience in producing light weight and super stiff alu frames for mountain bikes as same as for road bikes. But we knew that some technical details were not perfect and especialy in case you wanted to combine Rohloff hub with stand and a trailer for example the left side of the fork was simply too overcroweded by all those brackets and adaptor.

So new developemnt has been done and we can introduce you our new fork. It has integrated stand bracket and also OEM Rohloff dropouts which makes the look with Rohloff hub very nice and clean. Also some changes around the rear fork axle has been done so all the fork is much better now. The slight disadvanteg is little higher weight, but we hope all the improvements are worth of the weight.

At the moment we have just pretty bad pictures, but we hope to have much better soon.

AZUB gallery no. 1

There are thousands of pictures saved in our computers and they describe the present and past of AZUB company. We think that it would be nice to show them to you. So let´s start with a short trip which we made with a goal to make some pictures of AZUB Mini and also AZUB Max. Some of these pictures has been used on catalogues and posters already.

AZUB Mini in Australia

Couple of months ago we received two nice pictures of AZUB Mini in Australia. We received them from our dealer in France called On Avance. They received these two pictures from their customer Pierre who used his nice recumbent for travel in Australia. We like them a lot so we publish them here.

Thanks Pierre for your pictures.

recumbent AZUB Mini in Australia

second picture from Pierre

Miro Ozimy – homebuilder with AZUB Mini

Recumbents has been my hobby for more than 10 years. I found and article about Radius recumbent in one old magazine and it was the first impact to think about recumbents. Since that time I have built couple of different bikes, trikes and trailers of different concepts. Couple of years ago I found the brand of AZUB BIKE. Their bikes are exactly what is my prefered type of recumbent, sou I used some of their parts to build up some of my next bikes but it was still not good enough. At the end I ordered AZUB Mini in black color and Avid disc brakes. In that time my youngest son was born so I also purchuased AZUB Jerry children trailer.

To increase the safety I built also front light with 12 V and I used a halogen light in combination with LED. The batteries are attached from the bottom of the rear rack. I ride pretty often in light terrain with my son so I have wide tyres on my Mini there. For fast ride on asphalt, I used Maxxis Hookworm, but later I bought the Schwalbe Marathon Racer which are in standard offer of AZUB. The guys in AZUB simply know why they use them. They are perfect. I have had the chance to test quite some different models of recumbent bikes, but AZUB Mini is a favorite one for me.