What is the best/affordable folding bicycle?

600 is not enough to get 'the best'

all folders are compromises

you have to decide what you really want

light weight

folding speed

gears

good ride qualities

strong frame

then get the bike that has what you want

you can;t have it all in any bike

for $600 you have to give up most of them and pick one that you really need

for instance

google "bike friday"

expensive but good

they aren;t even quickly foldable though

more like 'if you have an hour and a b unch of wrenches, you can take it apart and pit in a box to ship to europe'

not like 'it folds in 20 seconds to get on the bus'

wle

Best Affordable Folding Bike

I ride a bike friday. Mine is a bit twitchy because of the 20" wheels, but it rides nice.

It doesn't lock into folding, but it does fold. Often the most I need to fold is to get

it into a car trunk.

If this is a supplemental bike (mine actually is) so I use it for commuting and vacations. If I had to do over, I would get a Dahon Speed Uno. It is very simple, belt drive, single speed,coaster brakes. It has a magnetic locking. On my bike, the cables always

get in the way.

I'd ride as many as possible at your LBS. If you need it to fold because of security or storage, you need to know how easy it is to fold and carry. Like mine, it can't really

be carried folded without tying it up.

Now I do use my bike to explore, and it is nice to have low gears.

Dahon is well know for folding bikes. Go to Amazon and read the reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=fold+bik...

http://www.dahon.com/

folding bikes are pretty rare i have seen one on http://2wheelbikes.com/folding-bikes.html not sure if they have them in stock yet though. pretty good prices.