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Old 10-17-17, 08:29 AM
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I can. Had one earlier this year that I sold. My take:

--Folding hinges are cheap and fiddly. OK for occasional use, not OK if you're folding/unfolding several times a day for multimodal commuting.

--Parts quality is really low. You've already discovered this via the freewheel and possibly the chain. My biggest gripe was the awful V-brakes, which pretty much defied adjustment.

--Not a fan of the paired-spoke arrangement when implemented like this. Paired spokes are too close together. If you're truing the wheel, you're constantly bumping into the partner spoke when turning the spoke wrench and need to reposition the wrench frequently. Took me twice as long to true a wheel on the Loop compared to a "normal" wheel.

I get that the Loop was built to a price point, and that for $200 you can't expect much. On a cheap folder, most of the $ goes into the frame and folding mechanism with very little left over for decent parts. Glad you're enjoying yours, but I can see why this folder didn't exactly take the world by storm.
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