Folders! Foldable bicycles, minivelos and demontables

[mdvineng]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116287742216
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...

https://www.instructables.com/Folding-Fixie-without-welding/

 

[novocaine]

Home made decouplers...

https://www.instructables.com/Folding-Fixie-without-welding/
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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.