[Closed] Folding bikes just aren't "cool". Not even this one.

Homemade?

Well it's certainly is not a brompton, so therefore not cool at all 😀

[url= http://www.strida.com/ ]STRiDA?[/url]

Nice curves. Like a 'lady'.

The strida is gopping 😐

The one in the OP though..... I likey !

This is going to be folding pretty soon...
Unable to get the pic to work, sorry.
Link instead [url= http://www.colbertcycles.com/Runaround.aspx ]Colbert Runaround[/url]

The guard at the rail station stopped me and the birdy once and said that it was the only cool looking folder he had seen, so the birdy must therefore be the winner:

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Is that really a crabon fribe frame with deep sections? Red chainset and Tourney rear mech?

Make it stop! Please, make it stop! I can hardly breathe for laughing!

Is there anybody on STW that is sufficiently qualified to decide what is or is not cool?

I seriously doubt it.

I rather like the Kansi.

I have a 2nd hand Phillips ****y

I don't think it's very cool

Ok then, Pass it over to lfgss, there's some seriously cool cats on that forum!

I believe the 'Kansi' was designed by one of the 'Martins'(ex trials bike rider) and styled to look like a 80's skyway bmx.
Personally I quite like it.

It looks like a BMX so its bound to look crap.Who would want to ride an 80s kids toy to the station ?

Me.

Looks alright to me. I'd be seen dead on it.

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Not even this one?

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any modicum of cool bestowed on a folding bicycle is infinitely negated when it is mounted by a folderider.

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Titanium Rohloff Brompton?

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/7872398768/ ]Titanium Rohloff Brompton 2[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Or are Bromptons intrinsically not cool?

Not sure which end of the spectrum these come in at:

http://www.airnimalfoldingbikes.com/

Soz, failed at adding picture... luddite me I am..

Flashies original pic is based on a dahon which makes it cool IMO. But then when that damn superlight in the classifieds sells I'll only have 18" and 29" wheels in my garage 8)

Oh and check Steve Parrys Bromptons for lovely pieces of kit.

I know of one of these that exists in a shed, a Uri Geller endorsed bendy bike.

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This proves they are cool

Ultracool'idge

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As soon as you define a product as not cool - it becomes cool

Cool folder = oxymoron

ultimately they all look like some bastard offspring of this

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compare and contrast:

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and

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I ride both a Brompton and a Five...Do I win?!

No.. no you don't.

I ride a Parlee and Dahon Vitesse..

I think you'll find I win..

you did until you mentioned the 5..

OK, I just Googled the Parlee and I'll give you that! Not with you on the Dahon though....

[i]Is there anybody on STW that is sufficiently qualified to decide what is or is not cool?[/i]

Yes, me.

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Is cool.

I just rode with a couple on Bike Fridays. One geared one single speed (71 inch gear) They flew over from Marin, had been on the Tube, trains to Wales and Scotland. They rode part of the Speyside Way off road. I met them in Tomintoul and rode down to Pitlochry with them. They had front panniers and bar bags with most everything they needed for a two week tour.

I was Sceptic-Al when I first saw them, but I'd have one tomorrow.