Originally Posted by
RoadWearier
However folding super small isn't that important but I WILL be carrying up a flight of stairs or two.
I guess Brompton would solve these problems but I do like 20 inch wheels and really hate the idea of dropping $2000 on a folding bike. How cumbersome is a Zizzo or Dahon to carry around? Any other suggestions? Those are the bikes that seem to come up the most.
When you have to carry the folded bike, especially on stairs, the Brompton tri-fold design is much easier than the classic Dahon bi-fold not only because its smaller but also because the bike remain folded while you carry it (which is not always the case with bi-fold with magnets to lock the two parts folded) and because the more parallelepiped shape of the folded tri-fold is easier to carry.
If you don't want to pay the price for a genuine Brompton there are now lots of Chinese copies of the Brompton for much less.