or yet another symbol of some sort of foolish status. Judging by this thread, however, a bike seems to now be viewed as a highly sophisticated piece of technical machinery that involves weeks of detailed research before deciding. Seems to me that a bicycle used to be a basic means of transportation. a fair number of the big box store bikes go to the scrap heap 'cause they're worth more there. We have a bike co-op that restores abandoned bicycles (it's a college town). It's not a snob thing the bikes were made to be disposable. Our local bike shops generally don't even work on Wal-Mart bikes. When people start bicycling instead of driving, funny things happen. I *do* prefer bringing the folder inside wherever I'm going 'cause I don't want it to get swiped (and the seat is 'quick release' so even if I lock the bike outside I take the seat in with me). a decent bike is a source of real transportation and joy. It is worth a bit of a wait to get the Right Bike. The Dahon Speed D7 is the most popular one and while the site says it's $430, I could have gotten an '07 model for $80 less. I think the technology's improved a bunch so that a motor-moron like me can get it unfolded or folded in under a minute. I landed here 'cause I set Google to find "dahon" 'cause I was shopping for one to add to my fleet.įolding bikes are uber-sweet. I was thinking of a Dahon but they're very expensive if I'm gonna get a multispeed. I'm not gonna be going off road or anything like that either. Not sure about going on the sidewalk but I think going on the road would be fine. I can go down to campus too which would be about 2-3 miles to and back. Again, I'd just be using it to go buy groceries or take out which is no more than a mile or so to and back. So I was thinking about getting a folding bike and just keeping it in my room or some place out of the way on the balcony. I don't really have space in my apartment for a full size bike and one of my roommates is a little picky about putting things in their place and cleanliness. I live in a fairly suburban/rural area but the getting around with a bike isn't much of a problem. As a poor college student, I think a bike is good since I use my car mainly for getting groceries or getting takeout close by. I'm thinking of getting a bike since gas is getting expensive. I'd like to get some advice from you bike gurus here.
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