Dahon didn't lie about their frames cracking, and then try to silence customers who had frame failures like tern did. Tern completely shut their forums down to try and silence the owners who'd had the catastrophic failures. There were injuries. I own a tern, and after their debacle I was afraid to buy their brand again. The new, stronger designed frames I'd say should be considered (maybe), but they don't instill confidence with the people who know about their treatment of customers that were victims of the bad design flaw/crappy welds. Is their QC up to snuff nowadays? Could be...