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08-26-13, 01:06 PM
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Who here commutes using a folder?
08-26-13, 07:26 PM
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have 2 .. though the Brompton folds better than the Bike Friday..
BiFri is the one with Disc Brakes
BiFri is the one with Disc Brakes
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08-26-13, 07:40 PM
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I do. 26" Dahon.
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08-27-13, 11:41 AM
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I do, though now that my office is near Penn Station, I keep a bike at the station in NJ and ride this one only in the summer, which ended today. It's about three years old, and has 7650 miles on it.
08-27-13, 02:18 PM
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I do, but am curious where you are going with your question.
08-27-13, 06:00 PM
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08-27-13, 06:31 PM
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08-28-13, 09:02 AM
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i have a 2007 Dahon Speed P8. i don't commute on it often, but it happens from time to time when i have commitments to go to after work that i don't want to street lock one of my regular bikes for.
08-28-13, 11:37 AM
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Me too except mine is a 2009 Dahon Speed P8 (sorry, no pic, but it's just like the one above except it's black). Like Donald Fagen, I don't use it a lot, but it comes in handy for multimode travel.
08-28-13, 07:08 PM
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I do sometimes on my Dahon TR24 no longer made. :-( If I could only have one bike that would be the one.
08-28-13, 07:57 PM
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I do, periodically, on my '09 Dahon Mariner.
09-01-13, 10:20 PM
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A Brompton is just about perfect for my city riding, to work, and almost everywhere else. Maybe less so for 50 mile tours, but I do them too.
09-02-13, 04:45 AM
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My wife rides her Dahon TR24 to work.
She's a school teacher, sometimes one of her kids will see it folded under the desk and ask "is it broken"?
She's a school teacher, sometimes one of her kids will see it folded under the desk and ask "is it broken"?
09-02-13, 12:31 PM
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I use my Paratrooper with road tires for my 18 mile commute almost daily (mainly one way but increasingly round trip.)
09-03-13, 05:31 PM
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I was curious if others than myself commutes with a folder. When I ride mine in Philadelphia people turn their heads to look at my bike (a few brave souls ask "what kind of bike is that?". I am on the Folder forum, but I see few threads about commuting. I have a cheap Value Edition Green Zone which I got new for $ 200 and I could not be happier. I even took it on a short tour in Canada. John
09-04-13, 03:53 PM
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Not a folder, but most people confuse it with one when they first see it. I picked up a mini velo (Mercier Nano) at the intro price when bikesdirect came out with them a couple years ago. I think it was around $250 at that time and seemed like too much fun to pass up trying as my first small wheel bike. I have commuted on it quite a bit and have taken it on a couple <500 mile credit card tours.
It handles it all just fine and is a blast to ride, particularly when unladen with my usual panniers. When I do my daily commute to work, most of the time I will ride one of my larger wheel commuters though. The 20" wheels seem to take a little more effort to maintain my usual speed. I just replaced the stock tires with Schwalbe Kojaks and they seem to roll faster, so it may make its way into my rotation a little more frequently. As it is, it often gets grabbed for shorter trips than my usual commute.
It handles it all just fine and is a blast to ride, particularly when unladen with my usual panniers. When I do my daily commute to work, most of the time I will ride one of my larger wheel commuters though. The 20" wheels seem to take a little more effort to maintain my usual speed. I just replaced the stock tires with Schwalbe Kojaks and they seem to roll faster, so it may make its way into my rotation a little more frequently. As it is, it often gets grabbed for shorter trips than my usual commute.
