Noble thoughts, indeed, but Isn't there a forum on the Helix website where you can do both? You didn't start this thread, I know, but hasn't it outgrown its usefulness? You'll be receiving your Helix shortly, so hopefully the saga on this thread comes to a close. Bear in mind the higher the expectations the greater the disappointment if things do not turn out well.

I'm neutral on the bike, and, since I know nothing of the company or its goals, though I'd wager they are the same as most businesses, and won't be buying one anyway since the folding bikes I have are just fine. Would haves, as in would I have bought it had it existed 4 years are pointless, since it didn't.

By the way, I began and let languish a thread on my experience with Brompton copies, mostly because it seemed to affront real Brompton fans. I tried to be humorous (difficult, I know, but that simply puzzled people. As it stands, the Brompton may be going, and the copies staying, as, unless the world economy plunges into the greatest recession it has ever known - yes, - being forecast, not joking - mostly because the money covers more than the cost of the two copies so makes good economic sense. Waiting until the weather warms up before advertising, of course.