Originally Posted by
Pocko
Says the guy who loves collecting weird looking bikes!
Hi, EvilV just introducing myself... new to the forum and loving it. I haven't got a folding bike (yet) but I just love the look and the "technicality" of small-wheeled folding bikes (or any small wheeled bike for that matter). I must say the Strida and the copy you've got, would be in my opinion one of the better designed ones.
I hope I don't catch the collecting bug for those little critters! I hope it's not contagious... is it??!?
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Hi Pocko,
There are several really ingenius ways of making a bike besides the usual arrangement.
Yes, I love the technicalities and feel envy at the hand and machine skills of some of the people here who mess about with their folders. Bolt on mods like the six gear conversion I made on the Merc are easy, but people here do some very interesting things.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.p...5&postcount=17
By the way Pocko, the desire to buy more and more of these bikes is contagious. I have found the banner adds from Ebay running alongside this forum difficult to resist. That's how I bought two bikes in the last month, one, a 39 year old R20 in need of a lot of tidying up, but all working, and also this Strida Fake. Both appeared at unrealistically low prices and with minutes to go..... Just too tempting. I might have to put the Ebay url into my hosts file and prevent it coming up so I can kick this habit.
Originally Posted by
regfman
So this is a warning to you guys that the joint can break. I think mine broke from the stress of unfolding it wrong. I don't know if it could break while pedaling. It would be real bad if that happened while you were moving.
Thanks for the warning regfman. I will take care of that issue when unfolding. I almost let mine go the same way when I first unfolded it. Maybe that joint should be made of some kind of nylon rather than a more brittle plastic. Mine is grey, and I won't strain it, I promise.
Did you find a replacement plastic part available. I expect you can get a genuine Strida part. I doubt the fakes are well supported with spares. If you had an engineer friend, he could easily knock you one up out of nylon as long as you still have all the parts. I bet I could even make one with a file, a hack saw, and a dremel tool. I'd certainly have a try rather than scrap the bike.
Originally Posted by
Pine Cone
I can't believe you keep buying more fake bikes.
You should send me your fakes and in my capacity as a minister in the Universal Life Church I will grant you absolution once I assure they are all in good working order.
Your soul is in peril as you embrace these fakes as if they were really bicycles
REPENT! Send them to me and all will be forgiven..
If that is not possible than at least give them more of a test than a measly 8 miles. Gotta be 20 km at the least...
LOL - in your dreams you may receive a fedex carton from me containing all my repented fake purchases, but I wouldn't count on it.