cmcristi

Thank you for commenting (you are famous on the Dahon website and I tried once to buy a 20" rim from you but Evans Cycles won because it is in the UK and I'm closer in the continental Europe - you were the only two suppliers I could find). I will search the forum for the alloy debate. There is an internal struggle in my mind now about my future bicycle ... whether it should be from steel or not ... my brain associates AL 6061 to my broken Mu P8.


You are right that I was an aggressive rider and not going for a leisurely pace, but NEVER jumping. Only 28+ road bikes with slim tires went faster on their road.
Actually, I felt something on the Sunday I took it for a four hours ride at the end of which I discovered the issue. At unfolding, I met some unusual resistance from the lever. I do care for my bicycle without overdoing it though, and I did not force the lever. Instead I pushed it back to the fully open position, flexed the frame (i.e. open it) and restarted the unfolding by closing the frame (i.e. lining it) and pushing again the lever to lock the frame. This time it worked (I mean as usual, like in many thousands of unfoldings I did) and I never looked back. At the end of the ride I encountered difficulties opening the hinge, some creaks that I NEVER HEARD from my hinge in my life, and I saw the disaster inside after opening the hinge. Usually my hinge worked pushed by one finger (but opposing some resistance towards the end of the movement at closing) but this time it was very difficult to open it.

Thank you for advice. My Dahon is "built by hand in EU" and I heard a lot of skepticism from Dahon personnel about the supply chain in Europe. I waited a lot for my replacement fork that I think it was adapted from another model and not from Mu P8. But I will send some inquiries.