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[email protected]>, gds
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[email protected]) wrote:
> Not to hijach the thread too much but a couple of questions on folding
> bikes from someone who knows nothing about them.
> 1) Are they rideable (comfortably)for distances over 25 miles?
> 2) What, if any, is the speed discount to a road bike given moderately
> hilly roads?
>
> Just wondering. I see folks on them doing centuries and such and they
> seem to be struggling more than most. I assume it's the bike more than
> the rider but really don't know.
There is a school of thought which reckons that if one wants a bicycle,
one should buy a bicycle, and if one wants something which folds, one
should buy a deckchair...
However, as a rule of thumb, the better it rides, the less well it
folds. I see a lot of people doing 200 km brevets on Airnimals, for
example, and they don't seem to be suffering unduly. But that's about
the /only/ even remotely foldable machine I see out and about on long
rides. Though I do know that at least one maniac has done the 1400 km
London-Edinburgh-London on a Brompton, so anything is possible.
--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
I'm just a primitive creature of the heath, so pardon my savage
ignorance.