Hmph! I could have sworn that I'd made a couple of short tours on my Curl with commonly available KlickFix front luggage.
That won't do. I'm talking about frame-mounted carrier blocks, like on the Brompton and most Dahons. Doesn't affect steering. Too bad the Curl doesn't have that important feature.
You're suggesting that offering customers a choice in gearing (the Curl's 3, 4, 7, 8 speed models, much like Brompton's 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 speed offerings) is actually a negative?
No. I'm suggesting they don't seem to know what they're doing with that bike that came out six (!) years ago.
They could start by making it half the price of a Brompton. Then some people who find the Brompton useful but too expensive might take a look (if they can actually find it in a store; Dahon is very badly distributed in Europe.)