Folders! Foldable bicycles; love or hate? do you own/use one? Minivelos and demontables added

[mdvineng]

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A bit different:

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That's made with Tzora mobility scooter parts, battery pack, control binnacle and motor gearbox unit. Sold in the UK under the Aquasoothe Travelight name. Which were crap!

 

[KayOs]

Found an older picture of mine. I smashed the front wheel on a fierce downhill later that week...

 

[sam_white]

Here's mine. I don't think I've shared it on retrobike.co.uk before. Had it about 5 years now, did a century ride on it a few years ago.
Built it up so I could ride it and fit it in the boot of my Fabia. However it's never been in the car!

 

[grantoury]

Here's mine. I don't think I've shared it on retrobike.co.uk before. Had it about 5 years now, did a century ride on it a few years ago.
Built it up so I could ride it and fit it in the boot of my Fabia. However it's never been in the car!

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That is lovely. A Raleigh Twenty, I think?

 

[sam_white]

That is lovely. A Raleigh Twenty, I think?

Yes. It's a 1980 Twenty Stowaway

 

[Imlach]

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[grantoury]

Home made decouplers...

Folding Fixie (without Welding)

Folding Fixie (without Welding): Folding bikes are handy, but slow and boring for daily commutes. Singlespeeds and fixed gear bikes are quick and fun, but cumbersome and expensive to travel with. So, my aim was to build a quick, fun, compact, full size, single speed bike which I co…

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[novocaine]

Home made decouplers...

Folding Fixie (without Welding)

Folding Fixie (without Welding): Folding bikes are handy, but slow and boring for daily commutes. Singlespeeds and fixed gear bikes are quick and fun, but cumbersome and expensive to travel with. So, my aim was to build a quick, fun, compact, full size, single speed bike which I co…

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oh I like that lateral thinking for decouplers. handrail fixings.
hmmm, interesting.

 

[Rothchild]

Fab thread, love the imagination and flat-out bonkers engineering that goes in to some of these.

I know very little about mine, it looks kinda like the Batavus bikes (with the pressed box section) but not quite. I call it 'Baguette Express' because I have it mainly to take on holiday to France with me to collect baked goods, so I've included a pic from the first time it fulfilled its destiny.