Folding bikes - Brompton, Dahon, Mezzo etc - recommendations and chat

[teuchter]

Hot or what?

But... it hasn't got any pedals.

 

[Badgers]

Quite like the idea of a folding bike for me and the lady but good ones seem to be damn pricey!
We have not got room to store two normal bikes in our place so better start saving

 

[Kid_Eternity]

But... it hasn't got any pedals.

How can you tell from a side on view?

 

[tommers]

How can you tell from a side on view?

you can see the hole at the end of the crank.

and there's a suspicious lack of pedal shapes.

 

[Crispy]

The holes in the cranks are a giveaway

 

[Kid_Eternity]

you can see the hole at the end of the crank.

and there's a suspicious lack of pedal shapes.

I mean...er maybe there's some new fangled peddle we aint seen before.

 

[tommers]

I mean...er maybe there's some new fangled peddle we aint seen before.

they could be invisible I suppose. Like wonder woman's plane.

 

[Biddlybee]

Quite like the idea of a folding bike for me and the lady but good ones seem to be damn pricey!
We have not got room to store two normal bikes in our place so better start saving

You could hoist them up in your hallway - that's quite tall isn't it?

 

[brixtonvilla]

It's less fun than a proper bike, but does look more fun than your normal folding bike.

Besides, when all you're doing is cycling from London Bridge to wherever, why bother with a really expensive model?

If you're going down Borough High St, you'd better have those front suspension forks...

My bruv is looking for a folder - will send that to him.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

they could be invisible I suppose. Like wonder woman's plane.

Exactly, that's what I was getting at, them damn invisible peddles.

 

[citydreams]

Hot or what?

Sorry, no contest!

 

[Herbsman.]

these are the best: http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/471/

 

[soulman]

Yeah but how much are they?

 

[pogofish]

Hot or what?

Rather bloody freezing actually.

That design is several years old. Maybe from 2000-2002? Can't remember the name of the original maker.

Relaunching it as "new" when the only new thing is the name on the top tube/girder, is a little bit rich IMO.

 

[Part 2]

Rather bloody freezing actually.

That design is several years old. Maybe from 2000-2002? Can't remember the name of the original maker.

Relaunching it as "new" when the only new thing is the name on the top tube/girder, is a little bit rich IMO.

Looks like an old Klein Mantra.

13 years old that one

 

[editor]

Sorry, no contest!

Those Airnimal bikes are fucking awesome. I've been giving them lustful looks for years.

 

[Herbsman.]

c

come on jump on the fixie track bike bandwagon innit

 

[Crispy]

now that's hot.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

fugly

 

[moomoo]

On some circular at work today there was an article/advert about a bike that folded up concertina style.

 

[TopCat]

Ed, did you not buy a very lush folder not that long ago?

 

[editor]

Ed, did you not buy a very lush folder not that long ago?

About three years ago and it's great for pootling around on.

But I'm digging the beefier lines of this Swiss bike too.

 

[TopCat]

Time flies eh.

 

[editor]

Will Self gets a Brompton bike

Nice article!

The great day came and I set off for Brentford. It was a perfect foldaway trip in every respect: I could ride my big bike to Vauxhall, take the over-ground train to Kew Bridge, walk to the factory, pick up the bike, then cycle back to the station, put it on the train, and then at the other end – bliss of bliss – get out the Brompton bag I'd bought years ago in an excess of uber-nerdishness, put the foldaway bike in it, sling it over my shoulder, and cycle home on the big bike. Bike-on-bike action! That's what we foldaway perverts really go for.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ng-will-self-on-the-brompton-bike-926741.html

 

[metalguru]

Great article - his journalism is better than his books.

For a moment I felt tempted - but I just find London traffic too dangerous to even contemplate getting on a bike.

Get rid of the cars in Central London, and I'd be on one like a shot.

 

[soulman]

Doesn't say how much it was.

 

[editor]

Doesn't say how much it was.

It'll be load$.

Their cheapest bike is over £600 and this one costs over a grand.

They're lovely machines though.

http://www.brompton.co.uk/

 

[soulman]

Absolutely. It's a fine piece of British engineering, and I'm all for sourcing things locally, even nationally. But what does piss me off is the prices, and the niche market that gets created for things like this. It can become elitist.

Then on the other hand a grand is a lot less than you would pay for a car. You don't have the associated expenses like road tax, fuel, insurance and so on. But you have to factor in rail, bus, taxi or flight fares. And shitty weather!

 

[Brainaddict]

Surely there are cheaper folding bikes too?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The pussy can't even cycle from Vauxhall to Kew on a one off trip?