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... is best achieved by keeping the main triangle in the frame intact; The Rudge (Montague) BiFrame is like this, and so are others such as any Rinko package or bikes such as Rob English's suitcase bike design. In fact Rob English's suitcase bike design ought to be one of the best; provided the BB shell ...

... and about as much of a worry as the oddball Dahon RDs are. vs (say) a Rudge (Montague) biframe, the FUBi should fold into a slimmer (or ultimately smaller) package, but uses many more 'special parts'. The viability of practical stuff like mudguards, carriers, lights etc remains to be seen. Plenty of ...

https://www.montaguebikes.com/folding-bikes/ 1. I noticed that the montague folders which seem the close modern analogue of the Brucey's favoured Rudge folder, now have aluminium alloy frames ( but steel forks) but the 700c ones have a double tube top tube whereas the 559/26in ones have a single ...

... idea which has just come rounds again. FWIW my 'travel bike' is an old Rudge (Montague) BiFrame. It uses 559 wheels. With ~32mm tyres fitted the wheels are actually ~24-1/2" overall diameter; somewhere between a 20" wheel and a 27" wheel. It is something of a halfway house in terms of the way it ...

... with bigger wheels which ride like 'normal' bikes which also fold (eg Montagues). However such bikes a) don't fold super small (so might not be ... don't really fold as small as they should do. FWIW I rode my modified Rudge 'biframe' (an old montague design) yesterday to a friend's place (about ...

... using the Ritchey design) - Separable spaceframe Moultons - Airnimal - Montagues/Rudge BiFrame/Fuji folding MTB - Dahon/Tern folders with 24/26/700C wheels - any bike which is fitted with S&S couplings. If your aim is to be able to throw a bike into the boot of a car or to travel by train when they are ...

... you might not have considered: -Dahon Tournado - Ritchey Breakaway - Montague folding bike - Rudge BiFrame. - Rinko Bike - Rob English frameset In most of the folding bikes that have larger wheels a pannier rack is liable to obstruct the fold somewhat so needs to come off the bike if it is folded as ...

... you don't have to spend £1000; for example my folding bike is a Rudge (Montague) BiFrame and it cost me a small fraction of that. Better yet, apart from the frameset, most of the parts that make it go are common-or-garden parts which appear on any number of older 26" wheel MTBs etc, i.e. they ...

... sale on gumtree recently, (IIRC in the Portsmouth area). This has fairly low-spec parts on it and one or two scratches in the paintwork, but had obviously hardly been used. [edit; https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/montague-bmw-folding-bike/1329623338 no affiliation to either seller of course.] cheers

at one point the BiFrame bikes were marketed as 'Montague' branded, presumably either before Raleigh (Rudge) and Schwinn branded bikes were produced, or after. http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=190362 Montague M1000 http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=190361 https ...

... take it at face value but for one thing; unlike other similar-ish Montague/Rudge 'concentrus' type machines, the 'Olympic MTB' does not have nesting double seat tubes, and the single seat tube is part of the rear triangle, not the front part of the frame. This means that either a) the 'olympic ...

... owner's manual here http://www.veterancycleclublibrary.org.uk/ncl/pics/Rudge%20Bi-frame%20Manual%201992%20(V-CC%20Library).pdf supplied in Jan 1992 ... 1991BiFrameCatalogPage.jpg 1991 was when Schwinn first offered the Montague design for sale. Not sure when the Rudge version first appeared? [edit ...

I think they did make some changes on the later frames then; there is no way a UN53 would go in an earlier frame...

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is the old one blocked? Even if the grease nipple is in good condition you will need a proper high pressure grease gun to force grease into that fitting. I have never had to remove mine so I don't know what size it is. I have a stash of both M6 taper thread and 1/4" taper thread nipples somewhere ...

disguised as a normal bike https://www.muddymoles.org.uk/images/RudgeBiFold1m.jpg large black frame http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php ... http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/dsc00007_153.jpg details of montague/BMW 700C model (note different rear brake hanger) http://www.foldsoc.co ...