I noticed recently that wurple has discovered folding bike love:
All I can say… what a fun bike to ride and it's soooo comfortable. That's not just due to the Thudbuster. The natural flex of the frame inherent in a folding bike also provides some form of suspension. Sure it's not as fast and efficient as my road bike, but I think I could ride this bike all day.
Oh yeah, fun is what these contraptions are all about, I reckon. (And everyone seems to be getting into the act and even calling them cool!)
Anyway HYG's observation reminded me that I have a development to report on an earlier post about buying a folding bike from a supermarket, in which I said:
Of course, critics may claim that cut-price supermarket bikes take business away from small local bike shops. Maybe. But someone who is going to fork out $199 for a supermarket bike probably isn't ready for what most bike shops have on offer anyway. And although they probably hate working on them, some of these supermarket bikes will end up in bike shops for repair—by which time the owner is a convert and the bike shop has a new sales prospect for accessories or parts or even a whole new bike.
Well I hate to say "I told you so", but "I told you so". A few weeks ago, I was riding along with the same commuting cyclist who'd bought the supermarket folding bike last year. And until she mentioned it, I didn't notice that she was riding a brand new folding bike—which she'd bought from a real local bike shop. In fact, it was her second non-supermarket bike—having bought a hybrid but found that it didn't suit her, she went right back to her hinged-bike ways.
And why not? Those things are just so much fun!
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The bike doesn't look soooo comfortable, but I would try to ride it :)