Originally Posted by
gringo_gus
Well, this is from 2008.... more than 5 years ago - anything since ? The thing with the internet is stuff lasts forever, in the real world people will have moved on.
I am not committed to Dahon, but the free advice and wisdom Thor hands out are worth their weight in gold. Would we like each other if we met ? Who knows, and I don't really mind. Declarations of interest are good, but the inside info we get from Thor is really interesting.
and Hank is really helpful too, so thanks Hank. I think there is a fine line here. I live in an area well populated with LBS's and a number sell folders. But they do so while looking down their noses at you, and really, not least through reading these forums, I know more about the product often than the guy trying to sell.
Maybe other people are luckier than me. When it comes to the 2008 argument, it seems to me that it is accepted that Dahon has problems with parts (although when there was a grommet missing from my DH hammerhead I got new, it arrived the next day at the LBS, thanks to Mark Bickerton, now with Tern, and these forums). So one reason I come here is the expertise. The other is that I meet people from all walks of life I wouldn't otherwise, for whom the values of peace love and understanding are evidence in their joint commitment to small wheels and the fold. Most of the time, anyway
However, if you have the good fortune in most respects to live in Seville (I am really enjoying the Inspector Falcon books set there at the moment, highly recommended) and are ordering your stuff from a guy Olney Illinois, then it seems to me the problem is with the manufacturer and distributor rather than the guy in the US. Who for all I know may be a grumpy old man, but then aint we all.