i'm curious, why so interested?

Internet posts on the lines of 'My XXX broke, therefore all XXX's are crap' are destructive, malignant and ill-informed, and they are placed solely to put people off buying an XXX and to punish the manufacturer.

It's a juvenile low-shot: One rant is fine. Months of it is an obsessive compulsive disorder.

For balance, Dahon produce nearly 700,000 bikes a year, most operating perfectly. I've got two of them.

Lube it or lose it.
:bike:

+ 2 :thumb:

well, if he is anti-dahon, you are certainly pro-dahon. a kind of balance of opposites. hmm. but, for that theory to hold, he would need to respond to your above comments with his own assortment of ad hominem attacks against you. i guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out.

^^^ Nah, we've both rattled our bars over this. The karma flows again.

I am fan of the low-price Dahons - the Vitesse alloy frames in particular are super.

There's plenty of choice of bikes and they all wear and break eventually. I'm a member of the Moulton club and while it's possible to keep even forty-year old bikes going, they all suffer the same problems as anything else: corrosion, eventual lack of spares, and pivot/bearing wear.

Making bikes out of bent steel tubes, fitted with rotating parts was always a lousy idea. :-)

Well, at last I could get my bike back, working in order and folding and unfolding smooth thanks to the magic of WD40.
No need to say I feel a bit ashamed for running afraid to the workshop before even trying to oil it, but it was a good lesson.
Thanks again to all af you!

I think I told you in the second post that it was rusted. Roger

that's hilarious.

I always try first to fix anything using the K.I.S.S. philosophy of repair and other people are engineers that way over think everything. Roger

10-4

Yes!!! You were right at the first moment. But... I had already taken the bike to the workshop due to an "over fear" :(
Talking about engeneers and over thinking, my father is still laughing at me when I told him I was afraid of bending the frame while closing the hatch of the car (only chance to do any harm to it). He said that before bending the frame I could have seen it emerging through the hatch.
Over thinking, as you said. It costed me 110 Km driving and ten days without the bike.
Next time I'll listen first.

Fixed it for ya. ;)