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What folding bike?

[Closed] What folding bike?

Stuey01 · 2012-03-29T15:32:01Z

To ease the pain of each end of my train based commute I want to get one of those little folding clown bikes. Looking at: Brompton Dahon Tern Brompton seems the default choice but is expensive and only has 16" wheels versus the Dahon and Tern's 20" wheels, also have limited geared options. Tern is run by Son of Dahon and looks to be pretty much identical to the Dahon options. Ideal world I'd get one of the alfine'd brompton's from Fudges Cycles, but they are very spendy. Nexus hub gear is available on the Dahon, but not others. Tern is available with 8sp deraileur gears Brompton in 2 and 6 speed variants. Dahon and Tern both do a singlespeed variant which looks pretty cool but would mean slower on the flat and needing to HTFU on the hills. Must haves: compact fold quick fold "some" gears (a move to Bristol is on the cards, which equals hills.) mudguard or option to fit mudguards I'm 5'10" tall so assume I would not have any problem fitting on a standard issue bike from any of the big clown bike manufacturers. Any experiences/recommendations welcome? Cheers.