Cyclist Again

[Dallas]

£200 sounds too cheap to me - It'll probably fall to bits in a month or two.

What folding bike does the richest member of the Brompton massive ride?

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Tern Folding Bikes | Tern | Evans Cycles

high end are carbon with rimmed rsce wheels

[NickFitz]

£200 sounds too cheap to me - It'll probably fall to bits in a month or two.

It's reduced from £300. Seems sturdy enough to me, and the reviews I've seen speak well enough of it. I know Raleigh may not be fashionable, but they do have some experience in making velocipedes.

Yeah, but he'll probably have given up riding it in two weeks.

A few years back I was renowned among my friends for being a constant cyclist. I only really stopped after I started contracting, meaning I was never home, and then got around to taking up driving. (Having my bike nicked didn't help either.) Hence the folding bike: I need to get fit again, and I'm not going to risk an expensive bike in Cambridge. Pootling back & forth between ClientCo-hotel-pub will help me get back in shape, if it's nicked I'm only down two hundred quid, and as and when I'll get myself a decent hybrid or road bike to use on those rare occasions that I'm at home

[Beavis]

high end are carbon with rimmed rsce wheels

Dude Hehehehe...like, um, rimmed!!! Yeah!!!
Hehehehe... you said "rimmed"

[norrahe]

I was tempted by a folding bike, but there's no point in shelling out 200 odd quid over here as your bike at some point is definitely going to get half inched. I was perusing the second hand bikes the other day and was contemplating shelling out the princely sum of €50. It's been nearly 2 years now and I still haven't got round to buying a bike, which most of the cloggies find amusing.

[OwlHoot]

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Tern Folding Bikes | Tern | Evans Cycles

high end are carbon with rimmed rsce wheels

Wow, those go all the way to £2300

What do the most expensive ones offer? Lightness, more robustness? more compactness when folded? or just more gears?

I'd pay up to about £1000, but am not interested in 20 gears if an 8 gear one is half the price.

[xoggoth]

Folding bikes! Bah! REAL MEN who drive vans just sling proper off road bokes in the back.

[OwlHoot]

I can't decide whether to buy a folding bike or a mountain bike.

Can one buy a folding mountain bike?

[mudskipper]

I can't decide whether to buy a folding bike or a mountain bike.

Can one buy a folding mountain bike?

I'd suggest you need (as a bare minimum)

- Road/race bike
- Mountain bike
- Touring/commuter bike
- folding bike

And optionally

- unicycle
- tandem

[NickFitz]

And optionally

- unicycle

"Optionally"?

[ctdctd]

I'd suggest you need (as a bare minimum)

- Road/race bike
- Mountain bike
- Touring/commuter bike
- folding bike

And optionally

- unicycle
- tandem

What about the indoor static bike for spinning during the winter?