Fully agreed, especially regarding the fold. Not a bike to hop in and off the subway. Regarding the price: Yes it is expensive. But when you look what a upper level MTB from a smaller company (as in "not a mass product") costs you could easily spend more on that (and many people do). From experience a folder is always a price step up from a non-folding equivalent. Well, here you go. Plus it is kind of a unicorn - I do not know any other folder that is really built for that purpose and on that quality level, so there's not much choice anyway. Airnimals are not cheap but very decent bikes.