Not sure if this is the same bike...

https://touch.trademe.co.nz/listing/view/697548803

More importantly - is it worth $263 US dollars? Not 'is it as good as a Flamingo?. My only hesitation is it is going to be a hassle to ship *unless* there is a workaround to disassemble.

Frankly I don't understand how you can patent an idea. If I design a good balcony and my neighbour copies me, how can I cry foul? The whole history of the human race is people copying each other! Why doesn't somebody in China just buy the three best bicycles in the world, examine them, reproduce them and sell them at a tenth of the cost? I buy Colombia brand shorts for $40 in Canada. I also buy $5 copies in Cambodia. Are they the same? Of course not. But the genuine ones bought in the developed world don't last ten times longer.Faking the labels is cheating. I would just copy and sell lookalikes. You want to copy a Mona Lisa? All power to you as long as you don't sign 'Michaelangelo' (unless of course your name *is* Michael Angelo).

I googled the model number and I found the manufacturer with a hard to read spec sheet...

NAKXUS
Made in Guangdong, PRC
180 workers in factory in Guangzhou province
Claims making 30,000 pieces per month (maybe non-folders as well?)
This suggests to me that I had it backwards, that in reality the world market in folders does NOT consist of premium bikes made in a cottage industry in UK or quality controlled factories owned by elite manufacturers like Dahon and Tern. Just like the Taipei Bike Show showed, IT IS OVERWHELMINGLY CHINA COMPANIES selling zillions of low to mid-range (or undiscovered out of mainland China?) bicycles that just don't get exported to USA. This company claims to sell to Europe, Middle East and southeast asia.

In next post I'll post the specs. The technical stuff is meaningless to me.