Actually you're right about reviews. No need for a bike magazine to do that if you have real insights from daily users. I was wondering specifically about the details that could justify the investment. For example, how gritty does the rear hinge get without protection? How to protect it? Does the bike develop play? Is it comfortable for small or tall people? Etc...
I think with jipe we can agree he had a solid demonstrator that was unfinished (probably needed the funds for that) showing true bike engineering and design skills but he was not a great manufacturing engineer.
regarding the original bike, i was actually quite confused it looked simple enough if a bit crude. I would have thought that one was easier to manufacture than the newer version. So how much of that was peter spiraling into redesign, i wonder.



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