New AZUB blog here!

We have prepared a new blog, which has nicer layout, some nice features and is hosted at our own domain.

Please, go to www.azub.eu/blog to have most up to date info from us.

Nice pictures. But who made them?

We have found two great pictures somewhere on internet, but we do not know who is an author of them. If you can let us know, it would be great. Thanks for any info.

New folding trikes from AZUB

There are more and more questions about the comming folding trike. We do not have much info now, but I hope at least some information will be enough for now. We will inform you more as soon as we have some final answers to your questiones.

So: At the moment we are working on two new folding trikes. The one will be based on the AZUB ECO trike with folding hinge and will be part of our Mainstream line of bikes. That means that there will be a chance to choose from colors, from components, possibility of disc brakes, SON hub dynamo etc. Price should be under 2000 EUR.
The next one will be based on the concept of folding trike we introduced in April 2010 during the SPEZI show. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnkAviUFBU We changed the system of folding, we added some nice features so the folding is faster and easier. We do not think that it is important if you fold the trike in 8 seconds, 30 seconds or 1 minute. Even 5 minutes would be OK, because you will not fold the trike every day several times. More important is how easy you can fold it, and how look the properties of the complete trike with the folding mechanism. And that is what we focused on.
We tested the first prototype on a rough tour in Himalayas last year and it did really well. You can see it here: http://www.galla.cz/cz-cyklistika/zanskar-2010-pripravy-preparations/

We suppose to have everything done before SPEZI 2011 in April so we will start to sell both trikes around that time. Most probably even sooner. Also some other projects are on the way so we look forward to see you all on the SPEZI show in Germersheim, Germany this year.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.

 

In 2010, there were 30 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 53 posts. There were 344 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 191mb. That’s about 7 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was March 24th with 563 views. The most popular post that day was recumbent-prototypes-6.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were azub.eu, azub.cz, ligfiets.net, twitter.com, and facebook.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for recumbent, hardcore, azub 5, azub eco, and azub.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Ukraine and Moldova by AZUB Mini recumbent September 2009
1 comment

2

Azub 5 after 17.000 km September 2009
2 comments

3

AZUB ECO trike on Iceland March 2010

4

Camino de Santiago on AZUB MAX recumbent December 2010

Traveling on recumbent in russian winter

We got just one picture from Dmitry. But it says it all…

Nice e-mail

It is really nice to read e-mails like this one from Kristian:

Hi Honza,

I’ve recieved the trike sent by you and I am overly impressed not only
by the quality of the trike but also by the packaging and swift
delivery. It has been a pleasure making this purchase at AZUB bikes.

Thanks a lot

Kristian
Thank you too, Kristian. Hope you will enjoy the trike for years!

 

 

 

Camino de Santiago on AZUB MAX recumbent

Stephane Girard is an owner of AZUB Max and he did a nice tour in Spain in summer 2010. His pictures are simply unbelivable. Some with recumbent are here, many others in his Flickr set.

Winter pictures of AZUB ECO trike

Bernhard Regler is not only our customer but also our friend who came with friends to participate on the recumbent meeting which was in Uhersky Brod in September. He sent us few pictures of the ECO trike and the way how his family use it to go to grocery and other shopping. We can only say: “Cool and cold” 🙂

Thank you Bernhard

 

AZUB Apus prictures from Okocicle

Carlos from Okocicle in Madrid, Spain sent us a link to a beautiful set of pictures he did to promote AZUB Apus recumbent. You can find the complete set on flickr here.

Ibex can climb anywhere

We got a link to a nice article on MailOnline. Francois send it in e-mail with subejct: “Ibex can climb anywhere”. Look at that! It is true 🙂

The full article with more pictures and video is here.