Originally Posted by
Smaug1
...and now that you have the Bike Friday All-Day, do you carry it around more?
It seems like that would be a good feature for a bike that would often be used on public transit and for air travel, but not as much elsewhere.
Despite its heavy weight, I had to carry the bike, for example up stairs or into the trunk of my car. And it was really unpleasant due to the weight and the fact that the magnet that keep the front and rear parts folded is not very strong.
But because of its weight, I left it outside tied to a fixed point rather than taking it with me into buildings (stores, sports clubs, etc.).
The much lower weight of the All-day (something like 8-9kg less when the bike has all needed accessories on it, the All-day weight less than 2/3 of the weight of the Vektron S10) makes that carrying it is easy and most time I can take it with me inside of buildings, either unfolded or folded with or without bag (I use the Tern bag for the All-day, its a little bit too big, but I don't care and this bag has 4 handles in addition to its shoulder strap that make it very easy to use), with the use of the attached velcro strap (the one that wrapped around the seatpost), the All-day remain folded while carrying it.
Now, before deciding to buy the Vektron S10, I looked at many other folding bikes with a mid motor from Bosch or Shimano available at that time (July 2023) and the Vektron S10 was by far the best: had the best available motor, folds smaller, folds better, weight less or the same as competitors and has better features (rear rack, front blag mount...).