Folding bike of interest...

Now some time ago I bashed Inhabitat for being just a little too upscale trendy and hip when reviewing green trends and gear... Too much form and not enough function.

And I'll stand by my claim that real "green" progress is only going to come when folks realize that smaller is better and for "green" products to become the norm they simply have to work... Hip is cool and all, but really hip stuff really has to fulfill a function (other than a high price tag and being trendy).


That said, Inhabitat does find a lot of neat stuff... Case in point is their catch of a very interesting folding bike design concept by a British design student Dominic Hargreaves.

The bike in question folds up within the diameter of the wheels and I'd love to see what could be done with this in the hands of a real bike builder like Bike Friday or Rodriguez. Of course Rodriguez already makes a bike, the UTB, which demounts into a wheel sized package...