14R I talk to David again before he left for Germany for a trade show apparenty not for bicycle but for wheel chair for the CP kids that he helped design. This person is much more than I expected. He is involved more in design and developement than retail and has a large warehouse in Kent WA that takes care of everything he put his finger on! He mentioned quite alot of brands of folder and future ones. Brand like Arminal, Birdy and unheard of Reach which he is pretty excited about. Any way he agreed to have me test out half a dozen bicycle that he has at his farm in Montesano. Flamingos, Reach, latest Birdy etc after I mention I like to compare them with my brommie. As you can tell I am looking forward to this event. I shall take some shots and post them with my subjective comments.
Flamingo has nothing to do with Merc according to him. He agreed that it is a complete quality imitation
and he is glad that there will be a reasonable alternative to brommie.
As for the Jap web site here's the traslated linkyou posted http://esearch.rakuten.co.jp/rms/sd/...sf=0&sitem=PS2 if it won't connect you can google "rakuten Brompton" you will get the following link follow through after Translation by google