Originally Posted by
Jipe
The first version of the Dahon Curl was presented at the Eurobike 2014, almost eleven years ago!
Here's the real first version which broke cover in 2011, looking a lot like the 2009 patent drawings:
In 2015, Dahon showed what was to become the final production version of the Curl at Eurobike and Interbike, and weeks later displayed the very different 'true Curl' frame in Taiwan and Japan. Inscrutable.
There were many different versions of the Curl, Dahon I think put a lot of money in this bike but for any reason the commercialization of the Curl has always been limited and chaotic and its availability has always been unpredictable the bike appearing in stock on some online shop and then disappearing/becoming unavailable.
I think that sales were always low but its due to the way Dahon commercialized the Curl, not to the quality of the bike.
The question remain open about why Dahon developed the Curl, put so much effort+money for its development, evolution and marketing, maintain the Curl on its catalog for so many years but limited so much its commercialization?
Yeah. Inscrutable.