It’s difficult to tell from the side-on view, but I think that frame has the extra wide forks and rear triangle to give clearance from the wheels, so the seat stays are horizontal when they join the seat tube 
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I’ve never ridden one of these but they always look unstable to me. I’m fascinated by anything out of the ordinary though.
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How do you set off on that? On regular looking recumbents the starts look dodgy but you’re fairly close to the ground. Does this one have stabilisers you can disengage? 
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I looked it up, seems like it’s pretty much the same process as a normal bike.
Try 5:20 on this.
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Just come across these bikes - made from wood in Hay on Wye, local to where I live
look nice!
While going through an old computer, I found a picture of my first “proper” race bike. I bought this in 1996 and was probably my first big post university purchase. I was 24 years old, and doing TTs, I spent my first year trying to go sub 1 hour for a 25mile TT, eventually just before the end of the season I managed a 59:50. My current PB is 53:45, set when I was 49 years old. My 24 year old self could scarely comprehend how anyone could do could do a sub 54min…let alone a 49 year old.
I dearly wish I still had this bike. I sold it in 2011, when I was fat and slow
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Last night I saw a guy commuting on a Specialized Shiv S-Works. It was the Tri version with the deeper tubes and the internal hydration system.
He had Zipp 1080s on the front and rear, but it was fitted with drop handlebars. The bloke riding it was wearing jeans and t-shirt and a baseball cap and he was using flat pedals.
It just seemed like quite an exotic set-up for a commuter/runaround bike
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I guess it’s a bit like putting a gold wrap on a super car.
Anyone guess what this is?? Spotted on a Cadex bike at Almere event at the weekend and sits under the arm rest bar and above the wide steerer. Is fixed to the armrest bar.
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Power steering 
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Power bank for long distance stuff? Charging the Garmin and the lights on the go? Maybe a speaker as well?
Who knows!
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Just a speaker. One of my transition TOs heard it as the athlete came into T2 so we investigated. Power button turns it on and it has a bluetooth connection if needed to some ear buds/phone. Another TO on the bike course heard some music as a rider went by and wondered where it was coming from.
Turning the power on and it’s playing Tears for Fears.
BTW - it’s a DQ offence
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BodyRocket aero tester thing?
Just seen latest reply…what a tiresome addition to a bike ffs.
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It’s a Mad World, enough to make you Shout!
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So the guy has a $10k bike and he adds a speaker to it? Which presumably also needs a phone connection.
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You need more knowledge of the tears for fears back catalogue - “Suffer the children” is the song for doing a triathlon too…
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The knowledge of their back catalogue is something I have zero need for but thanks Jim 
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Maybe connects to a garmin watch that has the Spotify link up?
Don’t know if you can get speakers that have some sort of storage in them as well. I’m guessing that’s possible.
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What’s the rationale for a speaker being a DQ?
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@Jgav FFS the guy was playing Tears for Fears, how is that not a DQ? 
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