One Month Till London - Looking at Folders

Only one month till I head to London for a long weekend. I'm looking forward to it enough to want to bring along a British-made folding bike to enhance the experience.

The British are so fond of their 'folders', it's kind of a national past-time for them. Just a few of the British-based designs:

The Strida.


The Brompton.


The Moulton.


The A-Bike.


The Raleigh (it's actually a rebranded Dahon).


The Vintage Raleigh (aka The Twenty).


Folding bikes are officially allowed by London Transport, including the Underground, on train service. Quicker commutes are only part of the benefit. They also turn heads.



My favorite is still the Strida, though. It looks improbable and tidy, and it lies smack-dab in the urban commuting category.

Did you know some folding bike fanatics take to touring on a folder?

There's even a tandem folder.



That defeats the purpose of portable commuting in my opinion, but if it brings a smile then c'est la vie.

Unlocked my blog

That's right, only eight years after the fact, give or take a few weeks, I got a hold of my old blog again.

It was one I created for a two-month trip to Thailand. Following the trip, I stopped posting to it and pretty much forgot about it. So successfully did I forget, in fact, that I never updated the contact info and forgot the password.

For anyone in such a predicament, do not try to get google staff to help you unlock a lost blog. I entreated them on numerous occasions to no response. In any case, this evening I tried a few combinations, and there it was - dusty, intact, unlocked. So now what?

Now that it's back, I may eventually take the time to merge in the pictures from the trip. I have lots of images that never got set with the text. Image uploading was a herculean task in 2001, y'know.