Compact folding bike
Compact folding bicycles are suitable for small urban travel.
To save money, I won't get an apartment in the center, but very far outside.
I definitely would never want to cycle for more than 90km/day on one of those bikes
migration by air is an annual activity
In the last two years, 2022-2023, I traveled by plane ~20 times, by I took my bicycle with me only half times, most never to the same destination, with a few exceptions, and most of the time I had my bicycle with me to cycle in warm places, such as spain, portugal, greece, northern italy, ...
I've also been to Japan twice, but only brought the bike once. The funny thing is that I had to rent a mini apartment, and I also had to rent a mini garage to put the bike in because keeping it inside limited the little space available too much. The dude who rented the apartment to me knew this perfectly, in fact he immediately offered the mini box for additional money. Not bad, in the end.
I miss Norway and almost all the Scandinavian countries from the list, because if I have been there, I didn't bring the bike with me, with the promise "
next time ...". So, after a year of thinkening and improvments, this time I would like to take the opportunity to try and bring a bit of English technology to the scene (Sturmey Archer, on both hubs), and, among other things, while everyone is fitting hydraulic disc brakes on their carbon super bikes, I'm modifying a drum brake on a 1995 Titanium classic frame built in Birmingham