Originally Posted by feijai

My Helioses (Helii?) have had the same problems, and I ride them perhaps two weeks out of the year (they're in another country). It was these problems that eventually drove me to go upscale in the folder I keep in my home (a Tikit). The tikit has its own different maintenance issues, but so far nothing of real irritation like on my Dahons. The tikit's also got the advantage of having very little to adjust each time, and thus little to start sliding on you. And no unidentifiable squeaks, that's what drove me nuts on the Dahons.

I have a friend with a Speed P8 and it's gone flat on him repeatedly: the reason was simple though. Dahon applies quite inferior rim tape, and the spokes poke holes in the tubes. Retaping, an easy task for any bike shop, cures the problem.