We honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want to ride a recumbent on the road, but to take one off-road is just pretentious. What’s the point? These guys obviously love it, but you do just find yourself asking “why?”

Want to know what it takes to be a pro rider? Well check this out. Here we have the Athertons on their pre-season training camp in sunny California. The Athertons have got loads of quality vids on youtube — while you’re online you should check them out.

We’re a fickle bunch, aren’t we? One minute we’re saying recumbents are rubbish, the next we’re saying Penny Farthings are cool. This dude has serious style; if you saw a guy riding a trail centre on a Penny Farthing and wearing cricket pads you’d give him some serious respect, right? Hats doffed…