Author Topic: Can folding bikes go fast?  (Read 2857 times)

fruitcake

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Can folding bikes go fast?
« on: 13 July, 2008, 08:03:04 am »

Perhaps the least appropriate test of design and build quality, but interesting anyway.

rogerzilla

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Re: Can folding bikes go fast?
« Reply #1 on: 13 July, 2008, 08:08:50 am »

Perhaps the least appropriate test of design and build quality, but interesting anyway.

Unless he's about four times as strong as Mark "I'm an arrogant tosser, me" Cavendish, he must be riding behind something...or down a big hill.
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andygates

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Re: Can folding bikes go fast?
« Reply #2 on: 13 July, 2008, 10:36:45 am »
Or both :D
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chris

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Re: Can folding bikes go fast?
« Reply #3 on: 13 July, 2008, 11:55:55 am »
There was a Brompton doing about 450mph the other day. It was in the baggage hold of the plane coming back from Glasgow. ;D

Re: Can folding bikes go fast?
« Reply #4 on: 15 July, 2008, 07:25:35 pm »

Perhaps the least appropriate test of design and build quality, but interesting anyway.

Unless he's about four times as strong as Mark "I'm an arrogant tosser, me" Cavendish, he must be riding behind something...or down a big hill.


'while training in the lake district' probably = while looking for a grt big hill.