dezzie

Posted on the Moulton group yesterday, a nice F Frame conversion with Sturmey 8 speed, it is lovely, planning on a similar set up on my Moulton Major soon!

flyboy2160

Abu, yes, that's a classic, beautiful bike- not like an upside down Eiffel Tower. I especially like the "hidden" Dahon folds. (Disk brakes and a lower price were musts for me, so this was never an option.)

But it's probably not weird enough for this thread! It needs some big hole loops in the frame, like the people with the huge earring holes in their earlobes. Then it would be ok here.

smallwheeler

OMG i just realized the jango flik is a boonbike!

tds101 

I like the Jango Flik,...not $2000 like it,...but I like it.

smallwheeler

well, you have to admit the jango flik is light years ahead of its predecessor. note the addition of a nearly perfectly horizontal toptube, lending massive amounts of structural integrity to the frame as well as producing an intangible and ineffable sensory experience in the viewer that one could only describe as aesthetic bliss.

personally, i'd rather have a boonbike.

tds101 

I was looking at their newest models, and I really appreciate the aesthetics. It's quite a lineup,...very nice.

dezzie

Nice custom Java -

Abu Mahendra

Funny. I know exactly who customized and where that image was taken, a bike store in Singapore called Scootz. Yes, they do Java mini velos.

smallwheeler

wow here's yet another boonbike.

flyboy2160

(Yeah, I had to look it up to be sure�)

Gotta go with sw here; I also prefer the Boonbike.

They seem consistent in their KISS appoach. "We're goin with a honkin' big heavy single bent tube frame. Tough." I especially like how they just flattened out the swingarm round tube to get a squished oval to mate with the rear dropout. I love that, having done it myself (but not for a dropout.)

Hydroformed tubing is a very powerful technology, but it seems like snobby tech-overkill here. And that swollen frame is just ugly. It reminds me of a scene from a Nature-is-Kind-and-Gentle TV documentary that ends up showing the opposite: a giant python swallows a small pig or dog whole while the announcer alarms "This has even happened to small children!!"

[in Crocodile Dundee vioce] Ineffable? Nah, that's not ineffable, this is ineffable. Ti Mini velo:



I'm saving up now to get one of these with disc brake mounts.

hmmm.....Maybe I should change my screen name to The Ineffable Frame Tube Nazi.

(Some of you have reading comprehension problems. My heartburn is with the manufacturers who foist very bad designs onto a largely technically illiterate public, not with the public. I have this same dislike for unscrupulous auto repair mechanics who hoodwink the public.)

dezzie

Well finally a mainstream dealer wil be bringing out its own Mini Velo in the next few weeks in the UK, company called Bobbin bikes, quite a network of shops here sell the brand, mostly ladies city cruiser styles, quite nice for the price too, found out they used to do a Raleigh twenty style shopper but have discontinued it, the new velo will be �450 when it comes out, hopefully my LBS gets one in to sit on. I also seen a new German made e bike called a Winora Radius, Yamaha mid drive motor, 3 speed which was really nicely built, customer had 1 ordered in my LBS today, �1750 it costs, won a few awards too!

chrislee99777

I prefer whole black one~looks so awesome!

normcore

Oh my!! I'd love to get a Bobbin Metric!!

ttakata73

The Bobbin is nice but I like the Bruno Mixte's twin top tubes more.
Did a search and didn't see this model posted in this growing thread.

Abu Mahendra

Similar to this Bannard...

tds101 

Beautiful bikes,...

smallwheeler

you're digging a deeper hole:

your original post:

you essentially called everyone who commented favorably regarding the castro bike a "know nothing". did you not understand that?

so, not only are you incorrect about the castro design specifically, and folding bikes in general, but you also seem to be tone-deaf as well.

Abu Mahendra

A month later, still mired in vitriol...

smallwheeler

i'm sorry to hear that, bro. if you're finding yourself still "mired in vitriol", i would suggest meditation. not only is meditating good for the mind, it will also help correct bad posture too.

smallwheeler

ahooga bike. looks very much like a tyrell IVE but with 406 wheels and no folding fork. 900 euros. according to the spec page, the bike is aluminum. the image at the bottom is clearly brazed steel and must have been a prototype. the quick release clip for securing the front wheel is neat. but, does it also work with a standard QR?

littlesilver

Dahon jifo. Far from a perfect bike, but perfect for me.

pinholecam

A cheaper "Dahon Clinch"


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smallwheeler

not sure how the dahon mantis relates the the clinch? the clinch is a lockjaw bike with 20" wheels. the mantis is a regressive iteration of the dahon presto lite, which was probably dahon's best bike, tbh.

ttakata73

Found on some Japanese sites.
Having ridden a Strida, Dahon Mantis, and Brompton; I think a 16" minivelo might be acceptable to ride.

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smallwheeler

takata, this thread has now come full circle: https://www.bikeforums.net/folding-bikes/897915-bikes-we-like.html#post15783308



R.I.P. thread.