Binch Shin thanks for your info,
so Strida are that popular.
I loved Strida when I first saw it but me being so long 194 cm one have to set the saddle so high and then the knee is near steering it is not practical.
And the bike have a twitchy steering that i fail to get used to and are comparively expensive here, what I like is that you could let it roll folded beside you. A Mobiky is build that way too. And the Carryme.
Sweden and Korea share that fate then. We had a big bicycle industry too way back. Many different brands and then we got outcompeted.
Finland still manage to build one folder but it is almost unheard of even in sweden being a neighbor country. Denmark have a small lamost cottage industry making special bikes for family. A box in front of the bike where you could put the kids.
I've seen the Bike Fridays Tikit on youtube and it is impressivly easy to fold. But too expensive for me.
I liked the Mobiky Genius a long time and planned to buy one but it is almost double the price of a Carryme. That bike is bigger and more heavy than a Carryme. Made in France.
Flickr.com have a group of Mobiky owners who love to take photos of it in different locations folded and unfolded. Much like we admire A-bike or Carryme. Small is beautiful.
I have some photos of Microbike on my flickr account kickrollator but it is not on my own, I borrowed those pics from other owners.
My mobile have a poor camera. Only 1.3 megapix resolution so that will not make great pics.
If I had the talent for it I would make a foldable Rollator that is both walkable, kickable and cycleble to ride like a bike I mean.
compare with Carrybike from Japan. In front it looks like a shopping cart or trolley for luggage with two front wheels but the rear side is an ordinary 16" cycle.
My "imagined" KickRollator should be changeable between two wheel, three wheel and four wheel. But it is unrealistic cause it makes it clumsy and heavy so it defeat the purpose, not practical to build or to own.
the purpose was to be able to adjust it to seasonal weather.
To not fall to ground because of snow on icy street when it is frosen temperature outside I need four wheeled thing that has a low center to ground. The kickbike allow you to be two inch above ground so you have a very low center which makes it extremely safe with four wheels.
I've tested to kick as fast as I could and then hit the drum brakes on absolutely slippery wet ice with no sand on it and I still was safe.
Had I walked or used a bike I would certainly have fallen badly and hurt myself so a four wheeler is needed for me when it icy which it is during three months in winter. Sometimes if the winter is extreme some 4 or 5 month? November to April or so. But now when we have had mild winters it is easier to bike the years around.
In spring, summer and autum it is sufficient with two wheel and biking but to be allowed to take the bike inside or on train and buses it is good to be able to change it to a Rollator look alike cause they are allowed everywhere due to being an aid for elderly who have problem walking without support. I will become such an elder sooner or later so it is good getting used to it while I can
I'm no constructor or designer or engineer though so my attempts looks incredibly clumsy or unrealistic but it is great fun laying in tub with hot water and with pen and paper think about which construction would have a slim chance of maybe just be usable for somebody like me. I even dream about such transformer bikes.
Fred Weakling of Sweden the Kick Rollator fantasy inventor.
