^^^ Nah, we've both rattled our bars over this. The karma flows again.

I am fan of the low-price Dahons - the Vitesse alloy frames in particular are super.

There's plenty of choice of bikes and they all wear and break eventually. I'm a member of the Moulton club and while it's possible to keep even forty-year old bikes going, they all suffer the same problems as anything else: corrosion, eventual lack of spares, and pivot/bearing wear.

Making bikes out of bent steel tubes, fitted with rotating parts was always a lousy idea. :-)