Features
- Lightweight 7005 alloy frame with forged lattice hinge
- Custom-drawn Sonus tubing for strength and stiffness
- Folds in seconds for easy travel and storage
- Air/oil rear shock and fork suspension for smooth riding
- Durable, puncture-resistant Marathon Racer tires
Price: $1,449.00
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This bike is the ultimate urban commuter. Lightweight and ultra-portability, it's great for a ride to the park for some afternoon rays, downtown for a Sunday brunch with friends, or to nearby shops for some quick errands. The Dahon Jetstream rides like a regular full-size bike, and in as little as 15 seconds, folds into a compact package that you can pick up and take anywhere you go. The robust 7005 aluminum frame features Sonus custom-drawn tubing and a forged lattice hinge. The custom Kinetix air/oil rear shock is tuned to match the Kinetix Q fork for a smooth, comfortable ride. The bike's special edition Schwalbe Marathon Racer tires offer durability, puncture-resistance and speed. Whether you use it for work or weekends, the Jetstream P8 is another environmentally-sustainable form of transport from Dahon that will get to point B quickly.
Assembly of the Bike:
This bike comes mostly assembled. Minor assembly is required before the bike can be used.
About Dahon
The Dahon story begins in 1975. At the time, Dr. David Hon, founder of the company, was a physicist at Hughes Aircraft Corporation in California, working on highly classified government research projects. Considered a leading expert in solid-state laser technology, Dr. Hon had already been awarded numerous U.S. patents for advancements in laser technology. Breakthrough laser technology that he and his team developed would later be used on NASA space shuttles, US missile guidance systems, and laser-guided anti-aircraft guns. Despite his success, Dr. Hon eventually found the work unfulfilling, because his energies were devoted to instruments of war, rather than for the betterment of society. Then, in 1975 came the oil and gas crisis and the seed for Dahon was sown.
One afternoon, in his third week of waiting in hour-long lines to buy gasoline for his car, Dr. Hon was struck by the magnitude of the world's dependence on oil, a non-renewable resource that would likely be depleted within the lifetime of his grandchildren. Brainstorming for solutions to weaken the world's dependence on oil, Dr. Hon ended up going back to his primary mode of transportation in college--the bicycle. Totally clean, and just as important, cheap enough for people around the world to access, Dr. Hon considered the bicycle to be a good candidate as a solution. While the bicycle was perfect for short trips, it was not practical for longer trips, for example, if you lived 30 miles from work. The bicycle needed to be improved and transformed, to make it more broadly functional and needed to integrate more readily with other forms of environmentally-sustainable transport, like trains and subways. Dr. Hon's solution: a portable folding bicycle. Working evenings and weekends in his garage over the next seven years, Dr. Hon built dozens and dozens of prototypes, trying to perfect a folding bicycle that would maintain the riding performance of a regular bicycle but would fold quickly and to a compact size.
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