Comments on: Folder Spotting http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bike Serendipity | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-11542 Bike Serendipity | Cosmic Variance Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:33:24 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-11542 [...] Seeing all the folders (see earlier post) rekindled my hope that all is not lost for the bike in Taiwan. You look a bit closer and they are there…just hiding. And occasionally you see a lot of fun innovations that are uncommon (at least in the USA). Three of my favourites can be seen in the following pictures. [...] [...] Seeing all the folders (see earlier post) rekindled my hope that all is not lost for the bike in Taiwan. You look a bit closer and they are there…just hiding. And occasionally you see a lot of fun innovations that are uncommon (at least in the USA). Three of my favourites can be seen in the following pictures. [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-11389 Clifford Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:44:56 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-11389 P.S. I just got email from a guy I met on the bus with my bike.... he's thought about it and wants to know where to buy one...... two nuts in a day! -cvj P.S. I just got email from a guy I met on the bus with my bike…. he’s thought about it and wants to know where to buy one…… two nuts in a day!

-cvj

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-11388 Clifford Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:44:11 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-11388 Helge: - Excellent! One day, people will look back at this time and see that we were all insane. Then they will know that I was not a nut. Until then, I aim to convert the world, making new nuts one at a time, for as long as it takes....Welcome! ;-) -cvj Helge: - Excellent! One day, people will look back at this time and see that we were all insane. Then they will know that I was not a nut. Until then, I aim to convert the world, making new nuts one at a time, for as long as it takes….Welcome! ;-)

-cvj

]]> By: Helge http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-11324 Helge Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:36:39 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-11324 Hey Clifford :-) You made me nutty too. Take a look at: http://cow-gone-mad.blogspot.com/2006/01/im-nut.html Cheers, Helge Hey Clifford :-) You made me nutty too. Take a look at: http://cow-gone-mad.blogspot.com/2006/01/im-nut.html
Cheers, Helge

]]> By: Wonderful Food on Walkabout | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-11232 Wonderful Food on Walkabout | Cosmic Variance Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:50:47 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-11232 [...] One cold rainy** morning in Taipei I was looking for breakfast and one of my favourite places that sells a particularly delicate pork dumpling noodle dish was not open yet. The place I found at the end of my folding bike hunt. Thrown a bit by this unexpected situation, I wandered some new alleyways and found an interesting sight. There were two women with three wooden drums from which they were extracting some very tasty -looking buns, no doubt filled (as they almost always are) with some sort of delicious thing. (The drums have hot burning coals in them, which cook and keep the buns warm, and give them a delicious hint of wood-smoke to their flavour.) I bought two one beef, one chicken, and then went to this cafe I love to go to for pearl tea -that’s a milky tea with large black tapioca balls living at the bottom - deee-licious!! I took them all back to my room (along with a few other things) and they did not last long as I sat and watched the rain**. [...] [...] One cold rainy** morning in Taipei I was looking for breakfast and one of my favourite places that sells a particularly delicate pork dumpling noodle dish was not open yet. The place I found at the end of my folding bike hunt. Thrown a bit by this unexpected situation, I wandered some new alleyways and found an interesting sight. There were two women with three wooden drums from which they were extracting some very tasty -looking buns, no doubt filled (as they almost always are) with some sort of delicious thing. (The drums have hot burning coals in them, which cook and keep the buns warm, and give them a delicious hint of wood-smoke to their flavour.) I bought two one beef, one chicken, and then went to this cafe I love to go to for pearl tea -that’s a milky tea with large black tapioca balls living at the bottom - deee-licious!! I took them all back to my room (along with a few other things) and they did not last long as I sat and watched the rain**. [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-10889 Clifford Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:26:15 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-10889 Actually, you're right...that one's quite a cute design. I saw several cute designs like that and other rather splendid designs... I noticed that there's a bit of a subculture of cute designs (retro and otherwise) equivalent to the sorts of car culture you get in LA, with lots of retro stylings and customizations... -cvj Actually, you’re right…that one’s quite a cute design. I saw several cute designs like that and other rather splendid designs… I noticed that there’s a bit of a subculture of cute designs (retro and otherwise) equivalent to the sorts of car culture you get in LA, with lots of retro stylings and customizations…

-cvj

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-10888 Clifford Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:22:13 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-10888 Lol! That's good! ;-) -cvj Lol! That’s good! ;-)

-cvj

]]> By: Ick of the East http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-10887 Ick of the East Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:00:42 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-10887 . Oooh, I really like that black and white retro scooter in the photo on the bottom right. Sorry.... .
Oooh, I really like that black and white retro scooter in the photo on the bottom right.

Sorry….

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-10883 Clifford Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:58:30 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-10883 Robert.... some of them are older, and probably were not folded much..... some of them were new though... and there were several Dahons, which are among the most affordable ones.... Bromptons are indeed too expensive...althought I notes that several years ago they used to subcontract out to a company in Hong Kong and so there were several models you could get in a number of Asian countries whihc were well matched to local prices of reguar bikes. I was hoping to see some of those. In fact, the one I <a href="http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/10/04/found/" rel="nofollow"> spotted on the USC campus that time </a> was one of them...the rider was from Hong Kong and she'd popped it into her suitcase and brought it over. Helge:- I'm a nutty idealist! Also...note that these bikes are no less real than those awfully large ones everybody else rides.... :-) Cheers, -cvj Robert…. some of them are older, and probably were not folded much….. some of them were new though… and there were several Dahons, which are among the most affordable ones…. Bromptons are indeed too expensive…althought I notes that several years ago they used to subcontract out to a company in Hong Kong and so there were several models you could get in a number of Asian countries whihc were well matched to local prices of reguar bikes. I was hoping to see some of those. In fact, the one I spotted on the USC campus that time was one of them…the rider was from Hong Kong and she’d popped it into her suitcase and brought it over.

Helge:- I’m a nutty idealist! Also…note that these bikes are no less real than those awfully large ones everybody else rides…. :-)

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Helge http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-10874 Helge Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:59:18 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-10874 Hey Clifford :-) I think you must have had a great deal of fun, when people were thinking you are nut. You are just an idealist. Nothing too nutty about it! Fight for your folding bikes, I still prefer real ones ... but I live in not too bike unfriendly old europe. Helge Hey Clifford :-) I think you must have had a great deal of fun, when people were thinking you are nut. You are just an idealist. Nothing too nutty about it!
Fight for your folding bikes, I still prefer real ones … but I live in not too bike unfriendly old europe.
Helge

]]> By: Robert http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/13/folder-spotting/#comment-10872 Robert Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:56:56 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=573#comment-10872 You are right, these are folding. But it seems to me from looking at the pictures that these bikes are of the old type: Opening the frame is really hard and you are not supposed to do it several times a day (but only a few times a year when you want to put your bike in the trunk to take it with you on holiday) which makes them much less usefull for the combined cycling/public transport approach than the Brompton style ones. And yes I agree that the latter ones are far too expensive. You are right, these are folding. But it seems to me from looking at the pictures that these bikes are of the old type: Opening the frame is really hard and you are not supposed to do it several times a day (but only a few times a year when you want to put your bike in the trunk to take it with you on holiday) which makes them much less usefull for the combined cycling/public transport approach than the Brompton style ones.

And yes I agree that the latter ones are far too expensive.

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