{"id":231,"date":"2007-01-14T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T08:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T01:45:39","slug":"folding-bicycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2007\/folding-bicycles","title":{"rendered":"Folding Bicycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folding_bike.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"folding_bike\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folding_bike-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folding_bike-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folding_bike.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While I was in Philadephia over the summer I was amazed by the number of folding bicycles. About half of all the bikes I saw were folders. Of course they make eminent sense for urban dewellers. I&#8217;ve always been interested in &#8220;packable&#8221; bicycles, and have a thirty year old three-speed folder gathering dust in my garage. The concept has come a long way since then! Over the holidays I bought two Dahon <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folding_bike.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Speed D7<\/a> bikes for $299 each. They&#8217;re an exquisite bit of engineering for the price. The principal flaw with the older design, a telescoping seat post, has been replaced by a single long piece. The 20 inch wheels are a nice compromise, the components are good, and the road feel is solid. <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folded_bike.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Folding the bike<\/a> takes less than a minute, and two of them will <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/folding_bikes_in_trunk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">fit in the trunk<\/a> of a small car! Go to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atob.org.uk\/Buyers'_Guide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> for more information on the various brands available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in Philadephia over the summer I was amazed by the number of folding bicycles. About half of all the bikes I saw were folders. Of course they make eminent sense for urban dewellers. I&#8217;ve always been interested in &#8220;packable&#8221; bicycles, and have a thirty year old three-speed folder gathering dust in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2007\/folding-bicycles\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Folding Bicycles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}