Jon & I were riding home to get soft at each other for just a couple minutes before he went home, and I thought that he heard me when I said "we're going right up here baby" and he didn't & ran into my back wheel in the most minute of ways - we were going between 5 and 10 mph, probably. we ride low & slow sometimes. moving on, the derailleur hanger (the tiny teeny weeny baby part of the frame that sticks off the very back & holds the derailleur), which had been bent & then bent back into place many times, and I found out later, very seriously wrecked before I even owned it, bent all the way into the spokes, thrusting the derailleur in there, which then got thrown around the wheel, which then...

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My mountain bike (MTB) now sits at home unloved, as the convenience of folding bikes has superseded it. I can keep my foldies inside my car 24/7 – locked with a chain (attached to the seat) and hidden from view – when I drive anywhere. Like something out of a Transformers movie, both my Polygon and Dahon folding bikes have a body and steering that can be folded in half, as well as seats and pedals that can be neatly tucked in, so that the final package is no bigger than a... A growing trend in cycling – bikes that can be folded up and conveniently carried on the LRT, car or bus – can help us beat the jam, keep fit and save money, too. a bike that you can ride to the LRT station and then fold up to take into the train. Imagine, a bike that can be folded so compactly that it can even go into a suitcase. Instead, he goes everywhere on his Brompton folding bike.

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