james_swift

Hey folderholics! Post your videos of folding bike goodness. All makes and models welcome. Here's a start:

Microbike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSxuycoycA (thanks spambait11)

Mini125:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiIMkrJ3v_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3P8WYojeQ

Birdy
https://www.kinetics.org.uk/assets/mu.../birdfold.mpeg (thanks Edd)

Swift:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIwu-q5lX0
https://real.ny1.com:8080/ramgen/real...25_203736hi.rm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cl4_eZ5g0 (thanks flea)

Giatex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjtPmt4DF0 (thanks rideTHISbike)

Kent Magnesium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Cw1vgIJFQ (thanks rideTHISbike)

Mobiky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umuSK3Jj4wE

Montague MX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yteDW5MwkA (thanks rideTHISbike)

A-Bike and Strida:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVVgsQt1DK4

A-Bike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW6vcRNlfP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ-cx1Z2EHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vgVyNClR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOadFVB9JVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ppOqIURKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd0gzgdw1nY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBGLPjP8QCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwo3MIuzgTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ytu6s3Ccok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTwkBPDyFrk

Brompton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyoUko-1hXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGa620P-pM

Dahon:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AzELTwQ3IgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEE-5a46wk
https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=dahon+bicycle (thanks Mooo)
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...524B4AD3FA1266 (thanks bloomanchoo)

Strida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRmfMszDbWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6iy_NUN66k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zm_AL0dudo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_GKCfbYcU
https://www.bright.nl/uitpakparty-strida (thanks makeinu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl91ScxyBPg (thanks makeinu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StitPmz6iZo (thanks makeinu)

Swivel-Head
https://www.mingcycle.com.tw/mov/swivel%20head.WMV (right-click and save)

Bike Friday
https://www.bikefriday.com/foldingpacking?time=current (thanks spambait11)
https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...645414&q=tikit (thanks spambait11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOhcJtxmpg (thanks DaFriMon)

spambait11

Bike Friday:
https://www.bikefriday.com/foldingpacking?time=current

Edd

Birdy: 15 second fold
https://www.kinetics.org.uk/assets/mu.../birdfold.mpeg

LittlePixel

Nice idea for a thread... Kudos!

This is a bit tenuous (as you can't see the bike) - but this is me going down the hill from my house on the way to work last year with my Ixus clamped to the bars of my Twenty using my trusty Manfrotto clamp.

Getting about 32mph there - my best (pre-fixie) was 39 but that was plain scary!

I want to see a timelapse of a build from bits to completed bike

Fear&Trembling

@LittlePixel

Nice vid. 32mph - spin faster, man!

You ride close to parked cars - right in the "door corridor"; I would try and give stationary vehicles a wider berth. Sorry for critiquing your road positioning and sounding like a bike-safety pedagogue, but, believe me, a "dooring" is something best avoided...

Simple Simon

Hey James - good thread - I learned more from these vids than most places, and the camera is impartial and doesn't lie ... THANKYOU ...

Hey Pixel - very nice vid !!! ... I agree, you do ride damn close !! scares me !! ... I'd go road centre when really hacking it - just to improve viz (unless next to a Q ... then up outside if stationary, or inside if not...... scary when stationary Q moves tho ) BTW how did you get such a smoooth video ? did you have image stabilisation ? .... Even on my fully suspended MTB the bars would be moving up and down more than that.... I know you have damn fine front suspension on that 20 .... but hey ????

Mooo

Dahon on google video
https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=dahon+bicycle

makeinu

This thread is great. Very helpful for understanding the different folding mechanisms. I was considering getting a mobiky, but I might get a strida instead now.

LittlePixel

@ Fear & Trembling & Simple Simon. I think it seemed closer than maybe it actually is for a few reasons; the camera was clamped on the left hand bar so has a little bias; It's at bar height not head height so the cars seem parallel rather than below, and the wide angle was 'zoomed.

I will admit I do ride *fairly* close (probably just over a foot from the kerb and maybe 2 feet from parked cars - but I have also have 4400 time-slowing ability and have not yet had a close 'dooring' incident. I've seen some in the making but so far got out of the way in time.

My girlfriend rides further out and it's all about what you're comfortable with but to be honest I don't like being out that far and would far prefer to be on guard for the occasional 'door opening possibilty' than the constant stress of having impatient Londoners revving to get past. I also don't think it promotes great driver/rider relations being 'in their way' as they would see it.

I ride a lot of roads with bus-lanes and I go centre lane a lot then so I'm not a total nihlist.
I'll probably change my tune when the big door happens tho

As for the footage - no special damping (other than those £10 forks).

The clamp is quite heavy and just clamps like a gripping hand to any tube. It's not so great but it's watchable. Someone should build a mini-steadycam for bikes. They would rock!

Nachoman

Of course it was scary, you're riding on the wrong side of the road!

flea

Another Swift video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cl4_eZ5g0

Interview with Peter about the history and several minutes talking about all you fixed gear fanatics who've driven a new nitch business!

james_swift

Excellent find! Thanks! (Got a sneak peak at the new steel frame even )

LittlePixel

Of course - I was waiting for that comment from someone

I want to see a video of someone folding their Twenty - perhaps their could be a contest for the fastest folding of the dreadful fold!

makeinu

Here's a good strida video that isn't an advertisement:
https://www.bright.nl/uitpakparty-strida

jyossarian

I swear, that's exactly what Peter was wearing when I went to his shop in Brooklyn.

spambait11

Another Bike Friday - the infamous "tikit":
https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...645414&q=tikit

bloomanchoo

Produced by Dahon:
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...524B4AD3FA1266

Simple Simon

James - This is a great Post/thread.

Moderator(s) ... How about it getting it pinned to the top of the folder forums, as a sticky ?

james_swift

Where are the Downtube vids?

DaFriMon

Another Bike Friday video, discovered while browsing on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOhcJtxmpg&NR

wubrew

Dude you miss the car a few times! Or is it the other way around?

LittlePixel

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, CASE CARRIES YOU! (I know - netherlands really but I had to use the meme.

makeinu

some new home strida videos on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl91ScxyBPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StitPmz6iZo

the second one is of a strida 5

spambait11

MicroBike (from Craigslist ad):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSxuycoycA

passonby

hahah, I am asking the same thing!