650 posts, and nobody in this thread likes Stridas?

Anywhere else in the bicycle universe but folders and single sided wheels, belt drive, disc brakes and a three-speed bottom bracket gear - all on the same bike - would be off-scale exotic.

I see the latest Strida 5.2 offers a choice of three handlebars.

I am glad to see the great diblasi getting Web time. Most underestimated folding bike. Not the best bike but such a great functioning item. My favourite is the R4 with V brakes. It does not have the folding forks which can be bent out of place. Plastic version on new bike sounds a good idea. I used to unfold this bike as I steped off the train. Literally.

So long as they were shopping for 'not invented here', I wish Dahon had bought a license/rights to produce the DiBlasi R24 design rather than the Smartcog Bipod Cool Mint, but that's just me.

Not a fan. I had a 2nd gen Strida and it was OK-ish, but the odd riding posture and long fold just didn't do it for me. Plus, there were too many plastic pieces on it, which led to creaking a flex. Looks great on paper, not to my liking IRL... Sold it locally within two months of buying via ebay. But who knows, with the latest models, they have have made great... strides...

The first time I saw a picture of a Strida, back in the 1980s, I thought, 'Yeah, that guy's going to be in the bike business for like six months..." The Strida design, now manufactured by Ming Cycle, celebrated it's 25th anniversary a few years ago, making it one of the more long-lived folding bikes on the market.

I thought this was...interesting: Stida Sahara tour.

I loved the strida until I rode one, holy crap that was the most unstable feeling bike I have ever been on. I really wanted to like it but there was no way. People complain how there are few fit options on most folders and that bike has one fit and it is akward.

To me the bike is very pretty and they did really shake up the traditional view of what a bike should be but to me it is not an enjoyable ride.

Send me one so I have experience with Them I only own a Bike Friday and a Brompton. on my dimes..

Nice find. You've done it again!

@thugpipe

Hola! Thanks a lot. before i get my hands on the silvertip, i daydreamed about Moulton every day. But now i hardly think about it.

now i daydreamed this:

i do! actually own one originally bought for my wife (yep, same excuse ) but i end up riding the strida if the weather was nice and i'm not rushing to go somewhere. it's a very nice bike. the crowd attention was a welcome bonus

beking custom mini velo:

Speaking of Strida. I really dig the SX.

It is very wobbly bike, but whenever i ride one it always provide nice smile to my day.

NYFTI folding bike from the Philippines. brazed chromoly frame. interesting fold strategy. apparently, this is the first production folding bike to be made in Phils. they recently won a design award and some grant money. good luck to them.

Like sex appeal - Some people have it, others don't :-)



and others just dont like to go against the grain :-)

And much nicer looking as well - IMHO.

veloline shuttle:

The dealer of Veloline is close to my apartment in Korea. might make a quick stop to check the Shuttle. Great picture.

The bike itself looks quite sexy I will agree, but put a human being on it = Birth Control. One looks so akward and upright its like the same position a rider took on those old bikes with the giant front wheel you pedaled directly (sorry I don't know what to call it).

The NYFTI looks, ah, nifty. Folds smaller than a Dahon Curve or EEZZ (but larger than a Brompton or either design of the mythical Dahon Curl). With ISO305 wheels and 'standard bicycle components', i.e. off the shelf derailleurs, it's going to have pretty short legged gearing, but that's nothing an XRF8W wouldn't fix. The saddle/bottom bracket relation looks 'interesting'.

Ordinary, high wheeler, penny-farthing were common names.

Folding Style ©: Electrolyte Kosmopolit Mini Velo Series

interesting to go with a 26 inch fork..... wonder how they would look like with a fitting 20'inch fork...

intriguing the electric motor in the lefty style fork, wonder what the torque of the motor and the disc brake torque does over time to that. than again if a real lefty takes the disc brake in forward motion, than the 250 watt motor in reversed torque should be fine as well. I guess time would tell

knowing the pricetag for s and s fitting those bikes surely are not cheap.. but well done
thor

Kosmopolit unplugged | Electrolyte

more on the tyrell 18":

What Function does that red thing do? on the left, behind the brake lever.

Is that what releases the rear fold latch? [my guess]