Folding Bikes - Ultimate folding bicycle: Any info?

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dannyg1
03-22-06, 01:17 PM
Here's an interesting new entry:

http://www.ufbusa.com/#

Anyone heard of this Brompton rip?

Heraclitus
03-22-06, 01:35 PM
Try this site. I think it is more current. I have emailed Len, but he is hard to get a hold of. Apparently his shop burned! I think he is rebuilding.

UFB The Ultimate Folding Bicycle UFB (http://homepage.mac.com/lenrubin/PhotoAlbum1.html)
LittlePixel
03-22-06, 04:45 PM
All titanium eh? Shame it's such a ripoff...

spambait11
03-22-06, 08:12 PM
^^ Nah, he's been trying to do this since about 1999 - 2000? I think he tried to do it because B. wasn't interested in doing a Ti bike at the time. Kind of like the Steve Parry of the U.S.?

I remember one time he was trying to get some buyers together for prototypes; I think it was like $5K US per bike. Don't know if anyone bit.
caotropheus
03-23-06, 06:08 AM
... I think it was like $5K US per bike...

You mean the weight, right? 5 United States kilograms ! :D
v1nce
03-23-06, 07:21 AM
I am digging that bike!! But i think for now i rather be buggered by a bear than drop 5 K on any consumer good that can easily be stolen or i might need to leave outside on rare occasions. If only that thing was mass produced and sold for 2 K, i'd buy it!
v1nce
03-23-06, 07:24 AM
I can't believe Brommie was not interested?! Are they Loco and Bonkers!!? Lotsof Gears! Fly Weight! V Brakes Damn You! V BRAKES!!! ;)
spambait11
03-23-06, 10:03 AM
I read somewhere that Brompton thought Ti main frames were too flexy, so they opted to keep them steel. That's why you have all the odd Ti bits on the new ones - they're trying to save weight everywhere else.

C'mon caotropheus - only 10 were gonna be made! ;)