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Old 07-01-23, 11:34 PM
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Jipe
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This is pure speculation that appeared when Pacific Cycles announced its anniversary P40 Birdy.

There was some confusion about the future of the P40, seems that at a certain point Pacific Cycles hoped it could become a normal commercial type of Birdy but that this was blocked by Riese & Müller who is the owner of the Birdy IP ? It seems that the Birdy IP ownership of Riese & Müller will end in 2024 with as consequence that after that date, Pacific Cycles will be allowed to develop and commercialize its own Birdy ?

Anyway, the P40 has a different mainframe but it folds just like the Birdy 3 and its folded size should be the same or very close ?

I write "should" because I don't know if the P40, which uses the Birdy 3 fork and rear swing arm, has the same geometry as the Birdy 3 ?

I have a Pacific Cycles gen3 Titanium Birdy and discovered that its geometry is slightly different than the one of the Birdy 3 and it folds slightly smaller too.
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