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folding handybike
Has anyone tried this thing?
www.handybike.com I am looking for a light foldable bike to take on public transport and cycle 10 blocks to and from work. Regular bikes are too cumbersome to carry around. I tried a Dahon Presto, it might be OK, but it's still heavy (18 lbs, like my racing bike) and it takes forever to fold and unfold (and to adjust again and again). |
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ups.com... Has anyone tried this thing? www.handybike.com I am looking for a light foldable bike to take on public transport and cycle 10 blocks to and from work. Regular bikes are too cumbersome to carry around. I tried a Dahon Presto, it might be OK, but it's still heavy (18 lbs, like my racing bike) and it takes forever to fold and unfold (and to adjust again and again). ? This is 8 kilograms, which works out to ... 18 pounds. The US web site, www.corratecusa.com doesn't seem to work. 6 inch wheels seem small -- my BikeE (and many folders) have 16 inch wheels, and that seems plenty small. I haven't tried it, but this cursory look doesn't seem promising. The women on the website are photographed well, but that's not much of a reason to buy the bike. |
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See, when folded the Dahon is not significantly more convenient to
carry around than when it's unfolded. A unfolded Dahon looks, well, like a bike, but a folded one is essentially a pile of metal and rubber with sharp parts sticking out. But I guess it's true for all foldable bikes. To me an ideal bike would be smth I could jump off, spend 5 sec max filddling with, and rush down the escalator to catch the train. Repeat the same steps in reverse order when off the train. Doesn't quite work with my mntn and road bikes. Don't see how it can work with the Dahon. Since the handybike is so small, I thought It could be worth trying, but noone has it in stock here in SanFran. As for 6" wheels, I have skates wth 6" wheels (rollerskis, to be precise), and they can handle all kinds of bad pavement. |
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wrote: Has anyone tried this thing? www.handybike.com I've never even heard of it, but it looks unwieldy to me. The seat appears to be set very far back from the crankset, which might affect pedaling and comfort badly. Also, your center of gravity would be almost vertically above the rear wheel. I expect that would make it bad handling in general, and prone to wheelies at the slightest uphill and/or acceleration. And I'll join those who judge the wheels to be far too small. I am looking for a light foldable bike to take on public transport and cycle 10 blocks to and from work. Regular bikes are too cumbersome to carry around. I tried a Dahon Presto, it might be OK, but it's still heavy (18 lbs, like my racing bike) and it takes forever to fold and unfold (and to adjust again and again). The Handybike is barely lighter than the Presto, and it's very unlikely to ride anywhere near as well. I know you're putting a higher priority on folding, but any bike needs to be _somewhat_ rideable. Folding a Dahon shouldn't take more than two minutes, especially with practice. You should mark the position of anything adjustable (for example, seatpost) so you don't have to do trial and error. Slide it to the mark, clamp it and ride. - Frank Krygowski |
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yeah. I've never ridden one though, and I am too old to learn.
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wrote: (clip) Folding a Dahon shouldn't take more than two minutes, especially with practice. You should mark the position of anything adjustable (for example, seatpost) (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I ride a Dahon some, and I can back up what Frank K. says. After you've folded and unfolded a Dahon a few times, the little snags and glitches seem to disappear. It actually takes me longer to slide the carrying bag onto the folded bike than folding it. The seatpost is the ONLY adjustment, and even if you don't mark it (I haven't) you get to know how high it should be in relation to your belly button (or whatever.) |
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