While nice-looking, this bike is much more expensive than a Brompton, which is already not cheap. And there are quite a few other folding bike companies out there already; this one isn’t going to be some special “Brompton killer”.
Now it may be meeting an unmet need, for people who don’t need the most compact bike, and I wish them success. Just weird to frame the story this way.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meet Bastille, a new French company that wants to challenge Brompton, the most emblematic brand for folding bicycles.
Bastille’s main engineer is Gilles Henry, the person who also invented the folding mechanism of the Yoyo strollers from Babyzen.
Henry has teamed up with Quentin Bernard who spent several years working for Devialet, the French audio engineering company behind high-end speakers, amplifiers and earbuds.
With Bastille, you won’t find any motor, there isn’t any built-in display and you can’t connect it to your smartphone using Bluetooth.
The company has partnered with Fritsch & Durisotti, Les Cycles Victoire, Expliseat and Cycleurope for the design and manufacturing processes.
At the same time, for people living outside of big cities, cycling infrastructure is still lacking — especially around train stations.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meet Bastille, a new French company that wants to challenge Brompton, the most emblematic brand for folding bicycles.
Bastille’s main engineer is Gilles Henry, the person who also invented the folding mechanism of the Yoyo strollers from Babyzen.
Henry has teamed up with Quentin Bernard who spent several years working for Devialet, the French audio engineering company behind high-end speakers, amplifiers and earbuds.
With Bastille, you won’t find any motor, there isn’t any built-in display and you can’t connect it to your smartphone using Bluetooth.
The company has partnered with Fritsch & Durisotti, Les Cycles Victoire, Expliseat and Cycleurope for the design and manufacturing processes.
At the same time, for people living outside of big cities, cycling infrastructure is still lacking — especially around train stations.
The original article contains 566 words, the summary contains 126 words. Saved 78%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!