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Article: Bicycle Designer on a Roll
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 4, 1988
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All city-dwelling bike riders face the same problem: what to do
with the bicycle after you're finished riding. Lock it up outside
and you may be short a tire (or more) when you return. Lug it up
four flights to your studio apartment and you may be in traction-and
besides, where do you put it? Under the bed?
Which is why folding bicycles were invented. But they also have
their drawbacks, like folding while you're riding against traffic
during rush hour.
A high-quality, durable folding bicycle, then, would solve a lot
of problems. And Harry Montague, a Washington architect, thinks he
has the answer-the Montague BiFrame.
Montague has spent the past several years designing the BiFrame,
not ...