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Folder Spotting

Discover the rising demand for folding bikes in Taipei and Hsinchu, proving they're perfect for everyday life and urban commuting.

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Well, although bikes have been scared off the streets a lot by scooters and cars, there are some die hards. Yeah! Also, around university campuses and nearby, you can find pockets of resistance. (This is helped by the fact that the scooters are banned from the campus.) I was talking about this with two physicists, Chong-Sun Chu (who, it turned out, was visiting from Durham) and Pei-Ming Ho (of National Taiwan University), as we walked along somewhere on the NTU campus (poor guys must have been so bored by me going on about it) and I expressed my hope that I might see more folding bikes here than, say, in Los Angeles. This expectation was based on my belief/hope that things here might more open regards the variety of things you can do with bikes to make them useful for everyday life. They both said that they'd never noticed any, ...

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