Folding Bikes - The Folding Video Thread

What? Don't you got no life?

OK then:


Claude wakes up at 07:00 but the weather will be hot, and so he eschews his Volkswagen. But, Claude cannot decide which colour B'Twin velo pliable to take today.

Then he rides like a mad potty thing through the citié streets of Lille, burning off the slothful at traffique lights and scattering wildlife

Contains annoying French humour and pigeon-bothering.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnW7fZKnK1k

The 2007 Brompton World Championship. Annoying music soundtrack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsrg2hX85u8&feature=related

An extract from a BBC viddy, Mark Whatsisname reveals what drove him to design and develop the Strida when he could have been working on a proper bicycle. Slightly out of place BBC link commentary is annoying:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_GKCfbYcU

The Round-Up 2007 Fast Fold Showdown. Very excellent comparison of folding times between several bikes, including a Moulton and a Brompton. Annoying commentary, apparently by Minnie Mouse:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKsCvDhCqI

Dahons in the Desert. Two roving reporters who travel extensively show the amazing Bardenas Desert in Spain from the saddles of their Dahons. Great scenery, but contains occasional annoying yodelling on the soundtrack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ajKLKqyr8Y

Boat and Bikes in Turkey 1:57. Hordes of Dahons pour into Turkey. Annoying Turkish music. Nice camels.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FCVlpEtR0&feature=related

Speed Pro TT takes on the Lycra Louts up a mountain. Annoying Spanish music, but a Speed Pro overtakes many dilatory roadies. Nice legs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6T5shLB3VU&feature=fvw

Dr Alex Moulton's 2009 lecture at Coventry Uni. Annoying sound quality, but the Old Bean shines:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9GEDnDVpag

Four days in London, by an American Bromptonaut. Awesome! Contains references to 'Kaliber'; a joke beer made from pigeon droppings, which English wags force upon American visitors, a visit to the Brompton factory, and annoying rock music. With Dapper Racing Persons at the 2009 Brommie World Championships. Also has annoying pictures of Bromptons being made, Bromptons being ridden, Bromptons being abandoned on a train, etc. Nicely edited, but too many Bromptons.

Awesomer!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma6ViQLzdtw

Annoying commentary, apparently by Minnie Mouse

The esteemed "Gal from Down Under", Lynette Chiang. Until very recently Bike Friday's customer evangelist. She also shot and edited the video (and was the one on the pink Pocket Rocket Pro).

My entry to the videos would be this one (http://community.bikefriday.com/fred/2010/04/fridayfreefall), but strangely I can't seem to find it exactly...

And then there's this clown.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIU_SbUohIQ

To bad the camera work was shaky -- the ride's pretty nice the whole way.

Our technical expert 'Iron-Paws' Jur shows how to change a folding-bicycle tire (sic) using only both hands, a pair of Crocs, and hundreds of fingers. Awesome! Annoying lack of pumped up death-metal music:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZ6Lybtc8Q

Dr Alex Moulton's 2009 lecture at Coventry Uni. Annoying sound quality, but the Old Bean shines:


As someone who has closely followed Alex Moulton in automotive suspension design and then bicycles, that is a stunning video. Just so fascinating to hear that the 2CV interconnected suspension was fundamental to the idea of developing interconnected Hydrolastic, to hear about the noisy monocoque prototype bike (0.5mm aluminium sheet!) - and so many other points he makes.

Has a biography of Moulton ever been produced?

[QUOTE=snafu21;10967060]An extract from a BBC viddy, Mark Whatsisname reveals what drove him to design and develop the Strida when he could have been working on a proper bicycle. Slightly out of place BBC link commentary is annoying:

Hey Snafu

Forwarded this to Mark 'wotsisname' Sanders, he thought it was very funny & whilst he was impressed to have become almost famous, he said he didn't think he'd be putting you on his Xmas card list this year! :lol:

^^^^

Ah, I wondered why he no longer pops round on his day off to borrow the Dahon. :)

I quite like the innovation of the Strida. One of the HPFBS gangstahs had what appeared to be one the other weekend, alas it peaked out around 10mph while we wuz just getting into our stride (a). I think they would make great city bikes. If you guys are in London on Sunday 4th July come along to Hyde Park, do.

There's an interesting viddy here of a usability project in the USA, (six parts) which I meant to dig out the other day, but I was attempting to get a life. Contains annoying elevator music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0nJdZqIh4

Julian: The Old Bean's Biog (http://www.alexmoultonbooks.co.uk/)

Can you take a folding bike off-road? This is the promo video for the MkI rebar frame Matrix, a 24 gear, 26" wheel sus-fork hardtail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXw_kgmBVAE

This is a vid of Len Rubin, his Ultimate Brompton was stolen a month or so ago, and a world-wide media cover ensued. The bike was recovered by a well-wisher and returned to Rubin as bike vigilantes combed the streets for the evil perp. Awful sound quality. Pardon?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWoeTOVYNY4

Dr Yan of Downtube fame does pull-ups with a bicycle on his feet. Annoying promotion of lightness of bikes, and the heaviness of ego.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4RHR1jhMI&feature=related

Freestyle jump riding on the Sinclair A-Bike, or reasonable copy thereof. Proving mainly that the A-bike is merely half a roller skate on a stick, our hero demonstrates bunny-hops, trials jumps, and repeated falling over. Annoyingly nerdy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mglmdKiBE7Q

Commercial for the 'Yike-Bike', a sort of Star Wars generation flying penny-farthing bike, powered by plugging it into the mains. It looks fun, but strange. Appears to emit green kryptonite gas. Contains annoying 'singing' which sounds like a cat sliding down a blackboard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7hVysw0n4

The Brompton Nano Bike. Powered by an electric motor, and the result of five years fiddling about in a shed, the Nano retains the finger-severing Brompton handlepost flick, and vile bent top tube of the original. The voice-over sounds like a lecture from your annoyed father, proving that only professionals should be allowed access to video cameras.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAM-Oh-gfrM&feature=related

How to fix an annoying puncture on a Brompton. Or just put the bike on Ebay, and buy two more with the proceeds. Contains use of a 'dog-bone' spanner, and footage of 'chain-winkling' .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGa620P-pM&feature=related

Do you read 'Guns and Ammo? Do you like jumping out of perfectly servicable aircraft? Is most of your underwear Nato Green? The Montague Military Bicycle is for you. Careful with that carbine, Private Snafu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOprGM35Pg): 'tennnnnnnnn-SHUN!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3Ql4tsfr0

London, Englandville. Dateline 16th June, 2010."World and Olympic Champion track star Victoria Pendleton has joined members of the All Parliamentary Cycling Group and other dignitaries on a bike ride around Westminster ahead of Bike Week, which starts tomorrow, and the jaunt was captured in a short film by Carlton Reid, the man behind the I Pay Road Tax campaign, among other projects."

Among those taking part in the ride was the Mayor of London’s Director of Transport, Kulveer Ranger, on one of the bikes from the soon-to-be-launched Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, resplendent with the bank’s livery on its rear side panels. Contains annoying pictures of Br*mpt*ns and horrible tinkly Balti Restaurant music. London's Bike Cops on MTB's doing a grand job are visible at the front of the throng. Worth it mostly for a look at Ms Pendleton, who does for cycling what buns do for bears.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP7AdkGDagQ&feature=player_embedded

Downtube/ Sturmey Archer 8 speed hub adjustment

Annoyingly, you have to put the bike in 4th gear:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-QCrUZ7W88

How to adjust your rear dérailluer gear

With only a 5mm Allen key, a screwdriver and a £200 bike stand. ( Don't have a stand? Sling a rope over the garage rafters and hang the bike up at eye level from the saddle.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzvfCaIbyQ

Go Bag a Bickerton!

It's 1983, and you've got your own helicopter, a groovy 'chick', and you smoke funny cigarettes. What better than to Bag a Bickerton?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=shxHFCi673A

Bagged a Bickerton? Mark Bickerton, son of Mr Bickerton, explains the origin of the Bicky to an annoyingly inaudible interviewer. 2009 viddy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QOVDbPQXo&feature=related

Time now for a musical interlude. In this clip, a lovelorn swain is moved to bicycling with no hands, to tell the girl he loves that his corazon is broken. This has no effect, so he does the Twist while cycling after stealing her flowers in a drive-by bouquet-grab. Still, he is spurned, because the girl has now had her flowers stolen, and will not run after him, depsite his ability to inflate balloons while bicycling. So, after magicking a paper aeroplane out of nowhere, he produces a guitar, strums, pedals, and sings while making progress down the highway. Alas, the woman he loves remains unmoved, so he strums, pedals, and sings while standing on one leg. Annoyingly peculiar.

The bike is a Dahon, and the viddy was found by Thor, bicycle vendor of this parish.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7cEp-FHs0&playnext_from=TL&videos=T0EJ9T3OVVA

A Bike vs A Strida. No, not a bike, a A Bike, the roller skate on a stick from esteemed brain-box Sir Clive Sinclair. Suzi Perry and that bald bloke from the Gadget Show go head to head through the streets of blighty, to prove.... Annoyingly enthusiastic:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVVgsQt1DK4

Do you read 'Guns and Ammo? Do you like jumping out of perfectly servicable aircraft? Is most of your underwear Nato Green? The Montague Military Bicycle is for you. Careful with that carbine, Private Snafu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOprGM35Pg): 'tennnnnnnnn-SHUN!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3Ql4tsfr0

This is awesome! Thanks for the post! The paratrooper is definitely one of our most popular mountain bikes-everyone who gets one LOVES it! Tough, rugged, and ready whenever you need it Check out Montague Bike's Blog (http://www.montaguebikes.com/folding-bikes-blog) to pick your Paratrooper color! We're trying out a military "sand" color right now, but let us know what you think!

This is awesome! Thanks for the post! The paratrooper is definitely one of our most popular mountain bikes-everyone who gets one LOVES it! Tough, rugged, and ready whenever you need it Check out XXXXto pick your XXXX color! We're trying out a military "sand" color right now, but let us know what you think!

I think you should get out more. Preferably without the parachute. And anyway, your bicycles don't work under water like the Zig-Zag, do they? What Marine would want a sinking bike? And stop saying 'Awesome'. You're an adult now and it's annoying.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_IjbYPNc1M

Annoyed by spammers, it is time to jet to Barcelona, in Yurp, to cycle into some pedestrians with a Br*mpt*n, spelled Br*mpt*m. It's almost, but not quite, worth watching for the cheesed-off body-language by the girl-friend when the feckless Br*mpt*naut arrives home.

If anyone from Br*mpt*n/m sees this and wants to write in to say their bikes are 'awesome', please don't; it's annoying.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTapBDLv3A

If you read the Hub Gear vs Dérailluer thread, you'll know that keeping your chain lubed just makes it wear faster. Yep! That's right, silly. So, now you'll have to replace it.

There are endless chain removal viddies on Youtube, often made by the deranged. Here's one of the better ones. Use of the chain removal tool. If you didn't ever learn how the experts do it, now is your chance:

http://bicycletutor.com/chain-tool

But first, here's (http://bicycletutor.com/calculate-chain-length/) how to make it the correct length.

Now, watch how this guy does it. You want a scratched frame? You enjoy listening to profanity? Let's do it!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMYGTc5bzNY

Tonight, the droolsome IF Mode bike from Pacific. Designed by Mark Sanders, they say.

Annoyingly , I haven't got one. And some say it's 'heavy'.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7alqIkPKsg

At last: ten minutes of how Schwalbe tyres are made. Thrill to shots of vulcanisation. Marvel at pictures of inner tubes. It's all utterly gripping, and annoyingly rubbery:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9RzJAWvOMQ

How Bromptons are made - with Spanish commentary. Annoyingly British, despite that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqK1EdkzCRc

A Dahon Jetstream, with millions of volts of Bionx electrification races a VW Passat in the Schwarzvaldekirshtorte, Germanee. There are annoyingly smug looks from all concerned at the end of the movie, and one has to wonder if the cyclist should be allowed out without his psychiatrist. Very German and oddly anal retentive.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTNGb3-Laf0&feature=related

There is a Belgian writer who really loves her bike . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7CC1iJAik&feature=channel

Excellent Set of Videos here All of them !
thanks for those links

liked the SCHWALBE videos the most

the brompton video i've watched maybe a dozen times over the years

Continuing Le thread de la Velos de Yurp, here's the French take on a velo pliant, le Strada. Er, wait, I mean Strida. Er. How annoying. .. AND.. you can even get three Striadas in the back of a Renault Twingo, should you be unfortunate enough to own one. Oh dear.

The cadré is garanti á vie and it's disponible en huit couleurs. It plies en tois secondes! Alors!

Nice bateau.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyvo1FFJIJY

...and proving that you can have your kayak and heat it, here is a Dahon tackling the rapids. Annoyingly nerdy, the clip contains non-bicycle content of silly fold-up boats.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDsq0DI6X28

"Phew!" you must be thinking. Is there no end to this stream of annoying nerdy viddies? No, there is not. Even in Death Valley, Br*mpt*n owners cannot eschew the need to nerd and fool around with huge cameras when they should be concentrating on not driving into huge trucks.

NB. Death Valley has been moved to California.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXdiQvLFfkg&feature=watch_response

Continuing with our Yurp flavoured weekend in honour of the Tour de France, here's how long it takes to mate if you're Italian. It's all over in 15 seconds. How annoying.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kUF3b9UkWE&feature=player_embedded

Now, back in the USA, Tricia Wolfe wants to show you her Love. It's not as toe-tingling as you might expect, and you may find Tricia's hat, and indeed, Tricia herself, annoying.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNZSGQ4scA&feature=related

We haven't looked at the Mobicky yet, in our world tour of folding bicycles. That's because they look like portable orchidectomy kits. Nevertheless, the Mobydickery appears to be speedy, even if if the front brake lever pulls annoyingly close to the handlebars:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfBtjGE7jA&feature=related

With a break from posting stupid videos because I was watching the Tour de France in my spare time, your reward for patience is an introduction to Danny Macaskill. Young whipper-snapper Macaskill will make your eyes pop out with admiration. Annoyingly, he does not yet, appear to use a Raleigh 20:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbJ1sseQVbY&feature=related

Amsterdam! City of er, stuff! Here's a MU doing the tour. It's nice enough but is annoyingly interrupted by some sort of annoying monotonous computer-voice:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iE0StQzlF0

And now, proof that folderitis is an untreatable psychosis. The Lazy Random-eur (sp?) treats us to a tour of his man-cave, er; micro-apartment, which contains many thousands of folding bicycles. He re-affirms, I believe many times, that most of them 'belong to friends'. Sure, sure, we've all been there.

Contains the annoying phrase 'My hallway carpet is not awesome." Be warned. It's all VERY SCARY!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDRcLw_3sRQ&feature=related