Folding Bikes - Dahon: Speed P8 or Vitesse D7

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jackbawel22
02-15-07, 10:52 AM
Hi all, I am again with my question....

I confuse to decide to buy dahon speed P8 or Vitesse D7. My understanding from internet, Speed P8 has better component BUT only steel frame. On the other hand, Vitesse D7 has cheaper component BUT alum 7005 frame. The price in my country almost the same (USD600).

I would like to have a bike that could play to x-country (not pure road bike). Or I should go for JEtstream P8, but nobody sell in here.

And where I can buy in Guangzhou (i assume should be cheaper than the price in other country).

BTW, do you know anything about yeahbikes? It is license by dahon. How is the quality? Is it just like lenovo and IBM notepad?

thx again for advise.

jack

DaFriMon
02-15-07, 04:02 PM
I don't want to get into the entire steel vs. aluminum argument, which regularly comes up on cycling forums. The chromoly steel frame on the Speed P8 should be good quality, though, and should not stop you from buying it.

On the same subject, I think that many, if not all, of the Yeah steel bikes use lower quality hi-ten steel instead of chromoly. At least, that's the only kind of steel mentioned on this page ( http://yeahbikes.com/model.htm ). I don't know what they use on their aluminum bikes, but I'd suspect it's not the very highest quality, even if it's okay.