The main difference is Bike Friday’s are hand built in the USA in various sizes or custom built to customer’s exact requirements (size, components & colour). Bike Friday do make a fast folding bike known as the tikit but most of their range are bikes designed to disassemble and fit into a suitcase for travel. Bike Friday are a company that really go out of their way to help their customers.

Dahon are a much bigger company building bikes in Taiwan. They make a lot of different folding bikes but generally offer no more than 1 or 2 colour choices and no options on components. There have been complaints about lack of customer support and very poor parts back-up.