I live in Israel and my daily route includes 2 or 3 short travels of 3km each, for each direction. Unfortunately the pavements are not smooth enough to consider the A-Bike, otherwise it would clearly be a winner among other microfolders for my purpose, and the reason I won't use a cheap bike to chain near the rail/bus station is that I want to travel fast both TO that station and FROM the station I stop at and so on (some days I'm required to make 3 stops in each direction). If there's a 200 to 300$ solution for this situation I'll be very glad to have it. I'm curious to know if an Asian or European brand takes international orders by the Internet - it seems like there are dozens of manufacturers in Japan and China but it's impossible to find complete data about them - so far I couldn't find a way to contact 17bicycle and HandyBike by email.

Thanks for all the replies!