I traveled down that path not a year ago- I wanted a twenty, and ended up buying a Nealeco Bianchi Aquiletta. It was an entertaining project, but *no way* would I try and tour on the little beast. Here are some of the problems:

- First off, the frame and hinge and everything are just not as strong as the twenty. It's a heavy little gaspipe monster, and I think going over a large bump would bend it irreparably.

- The headtube is quite funky, not a standard diameter. The threading on the fork is 24 tpi, so parts of a new headset worked OK, but I really would have liked to have a completely new headset.

- The crank in mine is a 2-piece thing that once worn out, will be a monster to replace. If the bottom bracket shell were threaded, it would be standard Italian sized. But it's just 2 cups pressed into an unthreaded shell. "Badmother" has an even worse one on his little U-folder, which is a 40 mm shell (too small for BMX and too big to take threading). He ended up cutting the BB shell out of a wrecked bike and epoxying it right inside the old one.

- The stem is 21.1 mm daimeter, so you're stuck with chromed steel parts.

- It still had the steel rims and crummy brakes and all the other problems the twenty has, and none of the benefits.

I would advise you to have some patience. I found my twenty for twenty bucks on craigslist a couple of months ago. Granted, it didn't have a fork or useable wheels, but I was planning to replace them anyway- all I really wanted was the frame.

Here's the Bianchi: I gotta admit, it *is* a pretty little thing, but I just don't know what I'm gonna do with it...