Giant’s latest folding bike, the Clip, is uniquely handsome. It has decent components. It folds relatively quickly/easily. It even rides smoothly. My one complaint?
From my full review over at Wired.com:
The little “D” above the fork seems like a natural carrying handle when the bike is folded. Right? Well, it is — provided you’ve got the hands of an 11-year-old girl. Try as we might, we simply couldn’t find any comfortable way to grasp the “D.”
Not a deal breaker, but worth knowing before you spend $1000.
photo by Jonathan Snyder for Wired
Previously:
- Review: A Day with the Strida Folding Bike [Verdict: Wear a Cup …
- New electronic shift system for road bikes coming in 2009 – Boing …
- Conceptual bicycle tree lifts your bike to safety – Boing Boing …
- IF-Mode folding bike
- Deconstructed Moulton Folding Bicycle
- Folding Bicycle Backpack is a cross-country dream – Boing Boing …
- Cannondale On: Prototype Full-Size Folding Bicycle – Boing Boing …
Hey, that’s great! I have the hands of an 11 year old girl! In a box. In a freezer in my garage.
that is high work must take me some exciting jobs。thanks you are good workï¼
ride bicycle is so tiring I like bus O(∩_∩)O~
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I don’t get the headline.
Everything at my job has an annoying, impossible to hold loop built into it (I work at a non-profit sailing center; shucking around kayaks and sunfish = no fun).
The answer for everything at my job is a bit of sailing rope made with a bowline tied into it (basically a big loop). Here you could make a loop, then get a relatively large caribiner and attach it to the impossible to carry hole. Voila! Removable shoulder strap!
that bike looks like a kids’ bike….
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BBG needs those ‘flag this post’ icons like BB. So many linkspammers of late (see JETT1972 above).
Um, it’s quoted from the review?
#2 – Then it makes a great headline for the review. I figured it had something to the whole review, but if it was so important to the review why didn’t it get into the blog post?
Fred wrote:
“$1k USD??? Way too much for a no name “name”. Dahons are better for less and the really killer deal is the Downtube folder – fully suspended for $0.4k USD.”
Giant is actually a very well known, very good good quality bicycle manufacturer.
$1k USD??? Way too much for a no name “name”. Dahons are better for less and the really killer deal is the Downtube folder – fully suspended for $0.4k USD.