{"id":201,"date":"2007-04-27T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=201"},"modified":"2007-04-27T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T09:26:14","slug":"theultimatefoldingbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/theultimatefoldingbike\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate folding bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/suitcase_bike.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFolding bikes are really great for commuters, people living in small apartments, or for traveling.  The original paratrooper folding bikes, while foldable, weren&#8217;t very good as bikes.  Recently that has changed as most convertibles are great at everything, although they can be somewhat ungainly to carry in their folded forms.  That&#8217;s why this adaptation of the folding bike concept is so cool.  The whole thing fits inside the suitcase-looking body shown above.  Here&#8217;s a corny animated video showing how the folding mechanisms work:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m1UdayeFaLo\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m1UdayeFaLo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find the original company website, but I got the story from &#8220;TreeHugger&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/04\/the_suitcase_bi.php\">http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/04\/the_suitcase_bi.php<\/a> who in turn took it from &#8220;Ride This Bike&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/ridethisbike.com\/2007\/04\/suitcase-bicycle-video-photos-price.html.\">http:\/\/ridethisbike.com\/2007\/04\/suitcase-bicycle-video-photos-price.html.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folding bikes are really great for commuters, people living in small apartments, or for traveling. The original paratrooper folding bikes, while foldable, weren&#8217;t very good as bikes. Recently that has changed as most convertibles are great at everything, although they can be somewhat ungainly to carry in their folded forms. That&#8217;s why this adaptation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,126],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-bikes","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}