Originally Posted by
bhkyte
Taking both wheels off a non folding bike is just about as effective as a folding 26" IMO, but the folder is slightly quicker and easier, that is not much as folding frames are heavier and more expensive.
There are a few small folding exceptions such as the under speced, over price,heavy "IFmode".
+1
It's certainly possible that the OP's design will change people minds, of course, but notwithstanding the opinion of cyclists on the street, 26" folders haven't been terribly successful on the folder market. The reason being, IMO, that they don't fold down that small, especially when compared with just removing one or both wheels from a conventional 26" bike.
Because of the fact that they fold, folders are going to be more expensive and slightly heavier than an equivalent bike. (Or much more expensive and about the same weight...). This basically means that there will be a penalty for buying a folder. To make up for that penalty, people want the folding feature to be useful...i.e., they want to fold to be small enough that the folder can do things that conventional bikes can't.
Having a 26" folder doesn't offer a lot of advantages over conventional bikes when compared with 20" folders.