Neat, but I’d never buy a folding bike (and neither should you, unless you truly desperately need it to take up as little space as possible.)
I’m the kind of person that needs a folding bike (travel by sailboat) but at 4300$ for a bike with basic components I’m not sold on this one.
Absolutely. There are certain niches where you really do need to focus on portability.
But like you said, a bike like this is extremely expensive, that’s because a ton of budget is going into trying to counteract the main downsides of a folding bicycle: They’re clunky, they’re inconvenient, and they’re heavy.
But for anyone who is able to sacrifice the floor/wall space, a standard bicycle will be lighter, and specc’d with higher quality components at the same price point.
Get a used one. Bikes are generally easy to maintain.
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle, don’t go on a consumerism spree just to give the US the middle finger, use what already exists.
