Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
Hey Machka, question about those little bikes. Do they work as well as a larger normal bike or are they slower because of the wheel circumference?
I like the idea of their packability but wonder if they would be taxing to ride over a long distance. Nice pics btw.
They are Bike Friday Pocket Llamas and they seem to work just as well as a "normal" bicycle.
We have ridden a century (100 miles in one day) with them, as well as a number of shorter rides like metric centuries (100 km in one day) ... and even on that little tour, we did 84.5 km on the day we rode the rail trail. So we can cover reasonably long distances.
I did have a minor comfort issue with mine on the century, but it was solved by lower the handlebars a bit.
And they are as fast as I am.
In other words, if I can do 20 km/h on a "normal" bicycle, I can do 20 km/h on a Bike Friday.
And thanks ... if you click the photos, you'll be taken to my Flickr site where there are lots more.
