Folding Bikes - First Post: What Kind of Bike is This?

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weltyed
05-20-08, 07:50 PM
this is my first post, and i know it goes to an ebay auction, but please hear me out.

i have been looking into getting a folding bike to take me to the train station and back. i have looked at bike fridays, dahon, and xootr. but this caught my eye. it is a folding bike with a coskpit and cranks for a kid as well as an adult. does anyone know what kind it is and where i can get one? i dont trust the ebayer:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lovely-folding-bicycle_W0QQitemZ120261197852QQihZ002QQcategoryZ159088QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://i18.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/f0/4b/4a1f_1.JPG

Diode100
05-21-08, 01:00 AM
Looks like a daft idea to me & not much fun for a small child - have you got very long arms ?
There are more practical solutions available for carrying a child on a bike - the dutch are the masters at this.
jur
05-21-08, 01:13 AM
I have seen such an idea somewhere else... but this bike's geometry seems all wrong. Stay away is what I would do.

Lalato
05-21-08, 06:04 AM
I think you would be better off with a regular folder or bike and a trailer bike for the child.


--sam
Sammyboy
05-21-08, 06:16 AM
I would buy it for fun value, but not as a serious tool - it'd be likely to disappoint.
EvilV
05-21-08, 06:39 AM
How could you pedal that without kneeing the child up the backside?