oh no! Someone went and did it!!
11-25-05 | 02:08 PM
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oh no! Someone went and did it!!
Have you guys seen the Hon Solo? It's one of the 2006 Dahon folding bikes. Suzue flip-flop/brooks b17/wooden fenders&chainring guard/leather grips/nitto moustache bars/etc.
I found it in the UK https://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk/publi.../DHHC0146.html
We don't have the prices from Dahon for this year's bikes yet, but given the 700 brit-bux they're asking for it, it'll probably be well over a grand if not a grand and a half.
I was thinking about getting one of their frames and building up a folding fixed gear but they beat me to it.
I found it in the UK https://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk/publi.../DHHC0146.html
We don't have the prices from Dahon for this year's bikes yet, but given the 700 brit-bux they're asking for it, it'll probably be well over a grand if not a grand and a half.
I was thinking about getting one of their frames and building up a folding fixed gear but they beat me to it.
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11-25-05 | 02:26 PM
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11-25-05 | 06:35 PM
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i just converted my speed 7 to a, um, Speed 1. As soon as I can justify a 135mm f/f hub, it'll be fixed too. The moustache bars and the leather grips, though...damn.
11-25-05 | 07:16 PM
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Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Steamroller, Jonnycycles Track, 80's Schwiinn Voyager SA 3 speed conversion/fixed, Schwinn Voyager SA 3 speed conversion standard. 1973 Schwinn Twinn Deluxe
I love it........decidedly un-hipster. I want one.
11-25-05 | 07:29 PM
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If you want one jump on it now, there's only 50 of them coming to the U.S. BTW I think there coolest thing I've seen in a while. I'd be buying one but I have an engagement ring to pay off.
11-25-05 | 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JoshFrank
If you want one jump on it now, there's only 50 of them coming to the U.S. BTW I think there coolest thing I've seen in a while. I'd be buying one but I have an engagement ring to pay off.
11-25-05 | 09:28 PM
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man, I'm sold, never realized just how much of the akwardness of folders came from dealing with all the cables and whatnot, both those options are damn elegant...
11-25-05 | 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by BostonFixed
I don't get it. Fixed folders are not exactly new. Look at the FGG.
I would seriously doubt that any of the ones on FGG are actually stock items. As a matter of fact, at least one of them I saw was built by an employee at Bike Friday for his personal use. I see on their site that they've started offering a fixed option, but I think that's pretty dang recent.
I KNOW I'd rather have a Friday than a Dahon.
It's good to know that they're offering one as well. I might even order one someday soonish.
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11-26-05 | 03:21 AM
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Hey, it's not fixed but ss! Maybe they took a fixed/free flipflop hub and put on a freewheel? Dunno, but they say its free and it has a rear brake. The hub prolly has at least one fixed side, though, so it has to be fixable...
11-26-05 | 07:18 AM
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It's a fixed/free, sent out freewheel. About the ring, she wanted it to cost more than my most expensive bike- prove I love her more or sumthin. Any how, I am lucky that she is into bikeing also.She's buying the tandem 
11-26-05 | 07:46 AM
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It is 899 dollars list according to Dahon .Where have you been ?we discussed this on Dahon forums and here on bike forums about a month ago.Every thing seems to cost more in England.
11-26-05 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by baxtefer
I've been wanting to do this for a while
is there anywhere you can just buy a folding bike *frame*
is there anywhere you can just buy a folding bike *frame*
