Old 09-12-13 | 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by mconlonx
Someone out there might indeed think it better for reasons which are opaque to you. Again, there's that choice thing, of which this represents some. I don't own one, nor have I owned the Dahon you compared it to, so I got no personal experience to fall back on regarding quality or "better-ness," only the macro view that more folding bike companies, more folding bikes, heck, more bikes period, is a good thing, rather than the alternative.
Well said. I welcome alteratives

Earlier it was asked why someone might prefer a bigfish over a curve SL.

Ok

I like the curve but.....
1) Dahon fold is not that great, it does not hold together well unless you fiddle with it.

2)The big fish will, I would have thought, go in a narrow space like a small car boot that does not fit the wide fold of a dhaon etc.
I found my diblasi, (non fold over frame),fitted in the back of my Nissan micra without folding back seats down, but the brompton did not fit.
I had a Porsche 912 owner chose a diblais for same reason. A long thin fold has its appeal.

3) as regular folder users we get used to folding our bikes and occasional users might not want to learn to fold a dahon, or find it easy. My family did not get on with my curve fold.

4) It also looks like it stands better.
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