Pre-Kickstarter? Can't find any spec's. Looks like 305 wheels & kinda a short wheelbase. 305 + derailleur will probably yield lower gearing. Quad-folds with drivetrain exposed.



Now you know as much as I do.

Yes, they wrote:

Launching soon at

https://aniwowbike.com/en/aw16ks/

The half fold with a basket is kinda neat.

I reached out to them via Instagram to see if they can share a little more about themselves and their experience with bikes and folding bikes.

But does the extra hinge really make it much more compact? It looks to me like only a few centimeters of savings lengthwise.

Chain exposed

I think I'd be leery about the whole Kickstarter thing. Did that Ti trifold 20" ever make it?

Well, that's different

"all terrain"

(no it isn't)

Are those 16" wheels?

Your comment sent me down the rabbit hole of researching past Kickstarter folding bikes. Here's everything I could find for ones that were funded.

Delivered = Yes, No, Partial,N/A... Partial means that there were complaints of non-delivery. N/A means that it's too soon to tell.
Viable = Yes, No, N/A... Viable in the sense that this product or a successor is available for sale. N/A means that it's too soon to tell.

Helix was the one I was thinking of. But I thought they were trying to price them below $2k?

The main reason why they only partially fulfilled is that they couldn't actually deliver with that price. So they have asked their backers to pay more in order to get their bikes. (someone correct me if I got that part wrong)

At least the bike, itself, is not vaporware. It exists and the people that own them seem to like them quite a bit.

Now that I've reviewed all those kickstarter projects... here's my list of what is most interesting.

1. Hummingbird. Cool looking bike, but not the smallest fold. Lightweight at 6.9kg
2. Dahon, Tern, and Bike Friday all had Kickstarter campaigns in the list. The Dahon Curl is the only one that is not really available to buy.
3. SU18 has a very neat fold. Unfortunately impacted by the war in Ukraine, but they are still communicating with backers so that's positive.
4. VELLO successfully delivered their first kickstarter campaign with $30K. And were rewarded with over $500K in the second campaign.
5. FLIT-16 is a nice looking bike. Like the Hummingbird, it's not a small fold, but looks like a quality build.
6. Pop-Cycle claims to be the first with this design concept of a sliding mechanism. They're not.

Interesting, the Dahon Curl has been on the market in Asia for some years, and can be purchased on Amazon.

The Dahon Curl (several types) has also been available in Europe mostly by online shops specialized in folding bikes..

Yes, it's out there. Heck, I own a Dahon Curl myself. What I mean is that it's not easy to find for sale.

The Dahon website doesn't even list it anymore. Here and there you'll see an article or blog about it. But generally speaking, not for sale anymore. Happy to be proven wrong on this.

USA

and hasn't for some years. The Curl D9 and I4 are on the Dahon China website, though.

The Dahon I4 and Dahon EI4 were available in Europe. Some online store have some pieces still in stock (mostly of the more expensive EI4).

Previous Curl I7 and I8 were also available in Europe. But also from a small amount of specialized bike shop and online stores.

The Curl D9 was never available, it only appeared as model year 2024 on the Dahon website.

I missed this in my once-over, but the Aniwow has a Dahon-style folding handlepost AND Mobiky/Strida-style folding handlebars.

Extra hinge + ISO305mm wheels + short wheelbase.

Hey, give us dimensions, Aniwow! Sheesh. Until such time, it looks like it doesn't nearly fill up this Ikea Dimpa:



the way some other well-known folding bike does:

I will defer to your apparent insider knowledge of which models Dahon has and hasn't sold in the Yuxi circle and behind the bamboo curtain.

I don't have Jipe's insider knowledge of what models Dahon sells in their many world markets, but I see a Curl D9 w/ Deltec was shown a few days ago @ China Bike 2025 (lt. blue):

Good eye. Because the front brake caliper is forward of the fork blade, that is indeed a D9 and not an i4. Most here had thought the D9 was never actually on the market, strange given that it appears to have good features. With a 10T high (hopefully, unknown), that may give enough range with a 40T low (also unknown) for enough gear range for hills. Shimano Capreo(?) group had a 9T high so would be sufficient range with only a 36T low, but is no longer made.

The kickstarter is up on this for anyone that is interested. They've raised $160K so far.

The geometry is now published: it has a short wheelbase (960mm vs. 1040 for the Brompton) and short saddle to handlebar distance (only 590mm vs. 670 to 715mm for the Brompton). Wheels are also smaller = ETRTO305 vs. ETRTO349.


The folded size comparison with the Brompton is unfair: they didn't put the Brompton official folded size (585x565x270mm) but a bigger one.


I mention the Brompton geometry but its the same for the Birdy which has also a longer wheelbase, a much longer saddle to handlebar distance and bigger wheels.

Anywow will be quite small for an average European or US male cyclist . Their claim that Anywow has "same comfort like big bikes" is not true, for the average male European or US cyclist Anywow will have an "awkward riding posture, compromised comfort" like they wrote for other folding bikes.



Its a pity that for marketing reasons, i.e. to have a smaller folded size, they compromised the riding geometry and riding posture.

Its possible to make a slightly bigger frame with the same folding concept that would provide a good riding geometry and a good riding posture and wouldn't be much bigger folded.