Features
- Lightweight 7005 aluminum frame with forged lattice hinge
- Simple 7-speed gear shift
- Integrated straight-blade fork
- Microadjust seat post and WTB Speed V saddle
- Rack and mudguards
Price: $399.99
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Hit the trail, the boardwalk or a winding two-lane in five seconds or less. And you won't a need a rack for this mountain bike, as a conventional trunk will do. The Dahon Jack is straightforward transportation for on and off road, featuring a simple seven speed 37-101-inch gear array and a beefy Joe Murray design 7005 double-butted aluminum frame with forged lattice hinge and a head tube made with patented ReBar technology. Other features include an integrated, straight blade fork, a Dahon Fusion headset with a Zero stack cartridge, and a WTB Speed V saddle attached to an aluminum, Microadjust seat post to ensure comfort and stability. The NVO InfiniteAdjust stem is made for instantaneous stem height adjustments, and the braze-ons for rack and mud guards will accommodate any trail gear you want to add.
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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