Hipsters are into everything are they not? Then these youthful flakes jack up the prices and criminal interest in the process that did not exist before they "discovered & adopted" the item in question. Most of those jokers prefer trendy bikes like the bike messenger's fixies endangering others out walking or cycling about the newly gentrified-reclaimed from gangs & the poor by overpricing-areas they like to move to. Beatniks did not even need folding bikes in the first place. They drove cars-usually old or cheap or both, ride share, rode motorcycles/motor scooters, or used public transportation like everyone else that did not have much money in those days.

That part is true. Most other folding bikes could not withstand very heavy interest or use like the more carefully made hand made & built market. They would simply fall apart or sit somewhere dark gathering dust since they always need to be repaired.