26inch wheels
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KnittyNorah
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- The Frozen North (of England)
A bike with 26 wheels?
26? Are you sure?
Wouldn't that be a double dodecacycle with a bicycle add-on?
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Ming the Merciless
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Icosi-hexa-roda would be the thing I think
LittleWheelsandBig
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Your decent options are Montague or Airnimal, pretty much.
KnittyNorah
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- The Frozen North (of England)
Isn't there a Tern of that size too?
LittleWheelsandBig
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The Tern Joe has a high-tensile steel fork (= not decent) and 26” wheels.
The Tern Joe Tour has decent kit but 650B wheels.
The Tern Joe Tour has decent kit but 650B wheels.
Thanks for the info
I have a Dahon Cadenze 8. As an urban utility bike it is really good but a bit heavy.
The folding mechanism results in a big folded size. I have put it in a car boot a couple of times. For home storage, a flat pack is more useful than the more cubic form of this fold. For air travel, you need to provide a lot of protection for the folded bike.
I didnt get it for the fold
The folding mechanism results in a big folded size. I have put it in a car boot a couple of times. For home storage, a flat pack is more useful than the more cubic form of this fold. For air travel, you need to provide a lot of protection for the folded bike.
I didnt get it for the fold
Kell
Veteran
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- High Wycombe/London
It depends what you mean by 'decent'.
I had (in order) a Rabbit.de bike - which went under a van.
A Dahon Matrix 2009 - which snapped.
A Dahon Matrix 2008 - which snapped.
I have to point out that the Dahons had a max rider (and presumably baggage) limit of 95kgs. Which I didn't find out till they snapped. Even without that, I wouldn't say they were trouble free.
But the good thing about the Dahons over and above either the Airnimal or Montague is that you don't have to remove the front wheel to fold it. Which I guess is fine if you're removing it for storage, but not much fun if you're having to do it in a rush on a cold, wet February morning to get it on a train.
There are other clones of the Dahons though. At one point I was looking at a Bickerton Docklands, but it doesn't look like they're still available.
https://www.bickertonportables.co.uk/bikes/docklands/
I had (in order) a Rabbit.de bike - which went under a van.
A Dahon Matrix 2009 - which snapped.
A Dahon Matrix 2008 - which snapped.
I have to point out that the Dahons had a max rider (and presumably baggage) limit of 95kgs. Which I didn't find out till they snapped. Even without that, I wouldn't say they were trouble free.
But the good thing about the Dahons over and above either the Airnimal or Montague is that you don't have to remove the front wheel to fold it. Which I guess is fine if you're removing it for storage, but not much fun if you're having to do it in a rush on a cold, wet February morning to get it on a train.
There are other clones of the Dahons though. At one point I was looking at a Bickerton Docklands, but it doesn't look like they're still available.
https://www.bickertonportables.co.uk/bikes/docklands/
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tinywheels
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- South of hades
there is only one folding bike, it does not have 26 inch wheels.
berlinonaut
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- Berlin Germany
If you are willing to spend the money and the bike fits your needs: https://www.kruschhausen-cycles.de/
Thanks for the info.
tribanjules
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- Birmingham
I got a 26” folding mtb for one of the kids to learn on. It works as described and means I can fit all their bikes in my car. It’s mainly for park rides so far. Think the well known high street catalog shop flogs them