Originally Posted by
Moondoggy
Does anyone have an opinion if this hinge issue is a quality control issue (maybe sub par materials or welds) or is this a design issue that may be seen in similarly designed folders, like...
...the Morel/Gerard folding bike of 1895 or Faun and Dwyer folding bikes of 1896 or C.H. Clark's folding bikes of the 1920s or the Le Petit Bi of 1939 or the Puch Pic-Nic of the 1960s or the Raleigh Twenty Stowaway of 1971?
IMO the devil's in the details, execution is key and history shows us the basic concept isn't doomed to failure by any means - but if it's a particular concern for a given individual, there are always folding bikes without joints in their main frame tubes, like the Anemos, BigFish, Birdy, CarryMe, Ori, Mezzo, Strida...