Form Follows Function
Folding bikes have similar advantages, benefits and compromises as any bike. They make you hungry.
It’s a bicycle plus the minus factor. Less is More. A portable travel bike, often one’s only bike.
Three bikes + bonus
QUESTIONS:
- For each of these three bikes, who is the mastermind and what is the model name?
- How does the wheel size have an impact on the ride?
- Are these fixed or freewheel?
BONUS QUESTION:
Which kind of folding “bike” fits in a typical kitchen drawer for knives, forks, spoons and rolling pins?
1. Thomas Owen - “One”
Clive Sinclair - “a-bike”
Peter Reich - “Swift Folder”
2. Bump/pothole handling worse with smaller wheels
3. First 2 fixed, last freewheel?
1. I’m not sure this is a bike,
it looks like a yoyo.
b.I think this is a folded strida.
not sure who makes it.
c. Peter Reich’s Swift R
He makes the classiest folding bikes.
2. The smaller wheels have a less smooth ride. More effected by rougher roads and pot holes.
3. None of these are fixed gears.