Thanks makeinu. I bought a very small bike that looks more like a joke than a real bike.
SmartBike, I link to it in the Sticky where we describe the bikes we owns.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=67772&page=18
The reason for me to buy it was that my maybe 20 years old Microbike could give up sooner or later and me is a kind of wannabe collector of small bikes. I am very tempted to buy the Carryme bike despite it being too
small for my long legs. Tallest allowed is 190 and me is 194 and me still some 5 kg too heavy for it.
The SmartBike has another solution to the folding so it allowed them a higher clearance for the knees.
So if Carryme is max 92 cm at highest for the handle steering stem. Then SmartBike allow some 115 or more. I've set it to 110 and that is a good compromise. SmartBike has an even shorter wheel base than
Carryme. Only 62 cmtr.
What I like about SamrtBike is that despite it being the shortest wheelbase I ever have riding its balance are almost perfect. Even me had no problem riding it.
Which shows that it is possible to make even so short wheel base and 12" wheels safe to ride.
SmartBike is a poor alternative to Carryme but the design of CM makes it difficult to raise the
handle higher which I need to go clear from my knees hitting the handles.
EDIT
Chop and me wrote at same time so me didn't know he was mentioning
the SmartBike.
I certainly agree it is a too heavy junk bike with very poor band brake
so I recommend it not to anybody unless you only have 29 pound and want to get home a few miles instead of walking and no bus in sight.
it is more like a joke indeed.
And as for a Strida balancing worse than a Smartbike (Easybike) That just takes the biscuit!
But that is as I and others here locally experienced too. My friend even found Smartbike better than my beloved Microbike. So I maybe knows how it must feel for you reading my friendly criticism of how the Strida behaves. I had a hard time accepting he found
the SmartBike easier to ride compared to Microbike which is a dream to ride.
Maybe you and me are very different and that we do describe our experiences of Strida accurate.
I trust you feel your Strida to behave well. I trust my description on how
it felt when I tried it out. I have both MicroBike and SmartBike to compare with.
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