Hi all,
I ‘ve almost completed a mini-project… Although I own a couple of folding bikes and a carbon gravel bike, i wanted something to play around and be able to fit child seat etc. …
so I built a flat bar gravel bike but it is based on a mini velo frameset (2008 dahon smooth hound frame and 2010 smooth hound fork).

I run a 1x9 groupset with:
-45t chainring mated to 11-36T cassette. The gearing (gearinch) is similar to the one on my 11s gravel bike but the 1st and 11th gear is missing; not the end of the world 😋
- The derailleur is Sora currently operated by a alivio shifter. I also have a set of sora dropbar shifter if I wanted to fit flared dropbar (and travel agent for v brakes).

The stem is the 100mm stem I removed from my gravel bike and the bar was 800mm cut down to 600mm. If I find it to twitchy, i will fit a 80mm stem as I think the bar is too far forwards from the wheel hub.

The wheelset is Kinetix comp with 47-406 Kenda… I can also fit some 35-406 slick.

Yes,it has a manual KS dropper post and bracket to pull a tag along kid bike well it’s a Trailgator connected to a frog bike.
the saddle is a fabric scoop (demo part because cheap).






After a test run, it does ride like the other folding bike but it is much more rigid and great to jump curbs.

With the seat down, it is a little a bmx… once the chain-guide is fitted , I’ll be off to a pump track with the kids 😜