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I'm a bit of a bike nerd and I feel like a lot of the author's recommendations are purely for other bike nerds -- Velo Orange, All City? Steel frame with wide d
by mcntsh 5y ago
I'm a bit of a bike nerd and I feel like a lot of the author's recommendations are purely for other bike nerds -- Velo Orange, All City? Steel frame with wide drop bars, fat tires and disc brakes?
My go-to recommendation for a bike that will fit the needs of 99% of people riding on pavement, is a Brompton. It folds up small, very quickly, making it easy to take on the train or throw in the back seat of your car. They also come with racks, bag mounts, dynamo lights/fenders/a bell and they have very workable gear ranges. People take them on trans-continental bike tours even.
- rmoriz 5y agoBrompton has a very low max weight. 105kg iirc. Bike Friday out of Eugene, OR has foldable bikes up to 150kg.
- brudgers 5y agoThe Brompton max weight is 110kg. The last I looked, the Bike Friday that folds as small as a Brompton had a lower max weight. The higher load Bike Friday models only folded in half rather than thirds. The other aspect of Bike Friday is that the buyer has to choose components. That’s fine for an existing enthusiast, but a dunning kuger for an average novice.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoI don’t really see the point of the BF Pakit (the small one) compared to a Brompton. The bigger BFs are great bikes though - I have a New World Tourist as my daily driver. But if portability is your aim then Bromptons are unbeatable.
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- athrun 5y agoI agree 100%. When looking at using a bike for transportation, you'd typically want racks/mounts, lights, fenders, a bell, internal gears, upright geometry, etc. If you live in an area with a good transportation network, you'll want it to be foldable so you can leverage multi-modal transport options.
- lokedhs 5y agoAnd it can hold it own against most other bikes. This is not really a scientific study, but it does show that it's a fantastic bike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCAwg9OMa84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCAwg9OMa84
- brudgers 5y agothey have very workable gear ranges My advice is choose a bike for it’s low gears because you will spend more time riding up hills and into the wind than downhill and with a tailwind…even if the distances even out.
- mcntsh 5y agoThe lowest gear on a 6-speed Brompton is 33.1 gear inches and with a 44T chainring it can go to 29.1. Considering how light the bike itself is, that's very reasonable! For reference to those who are unfamiliar with gear inches... My touring bike bottoms out at 26.5 gear inches and I've ridden it thousands of km, loaded across a lot of hilly/off-road terrain. A typical road bike might have 25-30 as its lowest, and a new touring bike might get closer to 20.
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