Haha.. that is quite a quick response!

Actually i m planning to get a foldie to commute from house to office. Basically from Jalan Genting Klang to Jalan Tun Razak. All though it is only for work, but i foresee i might be using it to tour around and adventure, maybe with you guys one day.

Have been reading this thread and did some researches until i got myself blurred.

My budget is below 1000 but depends on whether the bike below that price possible to be upgraded later or not by adding parts. Else, i might need to increase my budget. Plus in looking into rigidity so it last longer and light at the same time.

Raleigh UGO seems attractive for the price of Rm650 (either from kajang or selayang). Dahon and Terns maybe better but too many range of models to choose (that is why i got blurred). Prolly need to visit those shops one day

Basically, no one bike is perfect cos maybe there is one or two thing need to tolerate but hopefully can find the best fit me.

In dilemma now.. lol..

your Ugo comes with carry bag or not?

hope he is fine.

Btw, any feedback about polygon bike?

raleigh ugo is better than urbano 3.0? pls enlighten me..

i think the older urbano 3.0 is 6 speed, but the latest one is 7 speed.  my urbano 3.0 that i bought in SG last dec is 7 speed.  it is the one in the link below.

http://id.polygoncycle.com/index.php?pgid=...keid=635&par=75

All these got to do with rider experience and bike's front brakes.

1. always wear helmet no matter what
2. buckle your helmet tightly. Wearing them without fasten properly = no helmet protection also
3. ask your bike mechanic to reduce the tightness of front brakes (especially folding bikes 20" with disc brakes)
4. train at grass area with emergency brakes, get used to how your bike behave under emergency brakes
5. reduce protruding items on your handle bar (when u slam your brakes, your face will hit handle bar first)
For newbies going downhill and not familiar with the route. Follow all the rules above.

- Then lower your seat a little and bend down while riding to lower the CG (centre of gravity)
- do not go panic and slam front brakes.
- do not try to catch up with experienced riders while going downhill

last year when coming down from Gunung Jerai uncle behind me slammed front brakes and he literally turn into zombie like face.

i was in front of him going 40+ then heard loud bang, then i cycled back to helped him.

He got deep cuts on the forehead and bleeding all over his face.
I picked up pieces of front tooth from the road. Then he was spewing blood from his mouth, whole face all bleeding.
His gang finally came with pick-up truck and sent him to hospital.

Should be a nice morning ride but ended tragically.

let me rephrase that
Slamming front brakes is very dangerous. Slamming front brakes on a downhill, you'll guarantee to miss your face without scars

last time i did over 70+kph on Balik Pulau Hill in Penang.

after saw that uncle's accident, bawls all shrink d.....

i keep on telling ppl especially newbies not to go downhill but until they witness accident themselves, still no change

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Grabbed Ugo this evening from Kajang.. hehe.. my 1st foldie..

Can register liao...

http://www.ocbc.cyclemalaysia.com.my/

Can~

http://www.ocbc.cyclemalaysia.com.my/event...ke-regulations/

Can register liao...

http://www.ocbc.cyclemalaysia.com.my/

where got state any goody?? 

this organiser getting greedier... blardy hell....

last year CR RM 45... now RM 53..

summore create two more category for foldies..

foldy com ride.. RM 58..
why need to have this category? when they allow foldies in CR as well??
saja saja wana get extra $$$$ thinking foldi wana cycle among themselves .... 
foldy challen 20mins?? RM 74... 

Hello sifus here. Planning to get front light, rear blinker, carryon cover, and a helmet.

Light and blinker, i plan to get knog as they are brighter

Prolly will get tern carryon cover

Helmet, i have no clue

Anyone know what are the item price above and where is cheaper to get. Any suggestion of other brand which you using currently are welcomed to share..

my crap P9 went into ICU again by Sir etigee  ..... guess still not break-in enough 

We all just want to ride and sweat it out. Some like Dahons (like me and wife), some like Terns and some like Raleigh, Whatever the brand, we still ride, the bike will still takes us to the intended place. Maintenance is also important and to be able to spot what's wrong with the bike, one needs to be able to feel a perfect bike first. This has to be ensured by the shop that sells the bike. I have bought 3 bikes from Sew Leong in Dengkil. Why? He's cheaper because since his shop or rather father's shop is fully paid up, my guess, and overheads are way way lower than the city's bike shop. Every bike that I bought, I buy it straight from the box and I don't need it to be adjusted. But that's me, because I have been fiddling with bicycles since I was in secondary school.

To state a fact, all except one bike mechanic are not truly qualified if you look for paper qualifications. Only Gary of CCI in Penang is truly qualified. He was supposed to take engineering in US but when he arrived, he switched to bicycle courses and spent a year doing that. His grandfather was so angry with him after finding out and stop talking to him. Later, (it's his grandson anyway), he still funded him to start a bike shop CCI. I knew him well when I was in into mountain biking and buys stuffs to upgrade my riding gang's bike. I also seek a lot of technical advises from him. His shop was finally taken over by a son of a rich banker who was also a fellow rider when he failed in business and till today it's still in Penang. No matter how technical he can be, Chin Aik is still doing well, learning the ropes, not from US or any cycle shops but from experience. My point here is, in Malaysia we learn to become good from scratch. The bike mechanics here in Malaysia could have been a car salesman, a hawker selling Hokkien mee (like me  ) or even an engineer.

Unless you understand the geometry of a bicycle frame, how physics affects the ride, we are not specialist. Just knowing, 'this is good , this is lousy' or in fact, just knowing to to dis-assemble and assemble a bike does not makes us specialist. Neither does knowing how to adjust all parts of the bikes , we can call ourselves specialist. It's all a learning curve. I also know of a bike mechanic who thinks he knows it all and feels threaten when some plain looking old rider can do better than him. I mean, shouldn't he improve himself by trying to learn what he doesn't know. There must be something he don't know, right.

Then they are others who are well educated, hence can read a lot of literature about bikes. He gets every detail of the bike from the net, from manuals from the boss of the company itself. He can tell you anything regarding bikes but couldn't spin a spanner. Can you call that specialist?

My point is, brand is nothing! All bikes can be ridden and it is just a matter of comfort and also the EASE of maintenance. Just buy whatever brands we like according to one's budget and preference. Not all can afford a 5K to 10K bikes. Even if you can start with a RM700 bike, you can still upgrade it later. It's like savings while riding. Makes it easier to start. Even if you buy a Trinx or an XDS, you can slowly buy better components and upgrade step by step. Then at the final stages, you have double cranks and FD, 9 or 10 speed, lighter seat post and handlebars, better cables, better pedals, better seats and tires and finally you can change a frame. Then you get your dream bike.  Many can't afford even the first bike, let alone have multiple bikes, like, this bike for this route and that bike for that route etc.etc.

IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO TRY TO BE CLEVER WHO NEVER ARE ; THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CLEVER NEVER THINK OF TRYING TO BE.

Rather not talk about it.!