Folding Bikes - birdy-gobike hybrid

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bangkok
03-14-06, 11:19 PM
This private snap from the Taipei show ... it looks like a 2006 Birdy frame (but it's not) and a Go Bike front/rear.

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/cpiblog00985/imgs/e/2/e2d039bb.JPG
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/cpiblog00985/imgs/f/5/f56338f8.JPG
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/cpiblog00985/imgs/c/1/c1c9e401.JPG

spambait11
03-14-06, 11:24 PM
Looks like a curvy framed Mezzo (http://www.mezzobikes.com/models.html) folder to me.
Wavshrdr
03-14-06, 11:49 PM
I like the Birdy in the background of the one pick with the Bion-X electric drive setup the best. It is in the last pic of the series of 3.

Chop!
03-15-06, 05:06 AM
Definitely closer to a Mezzo, no single sided forks, rear triangle a la Brompton and worst you have remove the front wheel to fold DUH! Strange blue/green small wheel behind looks like a new on on me then.
(I presume the FD-1 has some connection with the BD-1 which is the Japanese Birdy)
LWaB
03-16-06, 02:51 AM
Definitely closer to a Mezzo, no single sided forks, rear triangle a la Brompton and worst you have remove the front wheel to fold DUH! Strange blue/green small wheel behind looks like a new on on me then.
(I presume the FD-1 has some connection with the BD-1 which is the Japanese Birdy)

It is a Mezzo definitely, although with a different frame. The front wheel doesn't come out to fold. The fork is in two pieces hinged at the crown (four fork legs effectively).
bfold
03-17-06, 01:40 AM
Bangkok, Thanks for the cool picks looks like the Pacific Booth. Great People and company in Taiwan. They are the maker of the birdy and Airnimal to name just a few famous folders. You should check out their “Reach” folding bike from the background of Photo3. I think they can give Bike Friday a run for their money. Bianchi is now selling this bike in Japan and maybe in Europe? This bike used 20 inch wheels and can fold into a smaller package than Bike Friday.

http://www.cycleurope.co.jp/2006/bianchi2006.htm

I wonder if Pacific is making bikes for Messo now?

www.bfold.com
spambait11
03-17-06, 03:36 AM
Doesn't matter if that Pacific Reach/Bianchi Fenice folds smaller than a Bike Friday: for $1500, it better RIDE like one too!
bangkok
03-25-06, 09:26 PM
More on the new quasi Birdy/Mezzo hybrid ... this link as referenced at the Folding Society site:

http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=783

The bike is from Apro Tech (Taiwan) ... models are Ori FD1 and FD2.

No mention at any Apro website ... http://www.apro-tek.com

Fertile minds at work ...