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The Mercedes-Benz Folding Bike: Better be well-heeled.

The Mercedes-Benz Folding Bike: Better be well-heeled.

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Most Mercedes-Benz vehicles have four wheels, lots of airbags and a big trunk, but the German automaker's latest effort doesn't meet any of those criteria. In fact, this latest Benz just folds under pressure.

It's the latest version of the Mercedes-Benz Folding Bike, one of the handful of two-wheelers made by luxury brands to hook their clients for another couple grand, while simultaneously giving them a way to reduce their personal carbon footprint. Like BMW and Aston Martin, Benz has been selling custom bikes for years; the Benz range also includes non-folding bikes for trekking, racing and trail riding, for example.

The newest Folding Bike does have some things in common with the company's more well-known street-legal machines: there's an eight-speed "clutchless transmission" (gears, we assume), disc brakes and an independent suspension, along with Continental tires. There's a gel seat, too, so that future generations of Mercedes-Benz clients can make their way into the world unharmed.

And of course, it's really a convertible: a simple mechanism allows it to fold down into a bag, which slots neatly into the trunk of even an SLK roadster.

Available in the U.K. at this writing, the Folding Bike comes in Silver Arrows silver or icy white, and costs about $1750. There's no plan to start selling the bikes in the U.S.



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  1. ma_Rice1 avatar Rice1 Posted: 7/8/2009 4:36pm PDT

    Good lord, $1750 for a folding bicycle? If you own one, you're either rich, stupid, or both.
     
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  2. ma_bepsf avatar bepsf Posted: 7/8/2009 6:48pm PDT

    I still prefer my $800 Strida...
     
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  3. ma_mburleigh8 avatar mburleigh8 Posted: 7/8/2009 8:44pm PDT

    Sorry but that is stupid.
     
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  4. ma_gazzed avatar gazzed Posted: 7/9/2009 12:30am PDT

    I believe Honda had the best idea when they released the Honda City with the Motocompo motorbike from 1981.
    Even has a link with a series of funny commercials made by the British band Madness for the Honda City --- watch it ( http://www.banpei.net/blog/hilarious-1981-honda-city-and-motocompo ).
     
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  5. ma_philmoney avatar philmoney Posted: 7/9/2009 4:29am PDT

    it's the "im in my own grandpa" model of cycle
     
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  6. By  ipod zubehoer Posted: 12/29/2009 10:07pm PST

    I just don't like the design on this one. They should have kept their "formula 1 inspired" nose like on the slk and sl. This departure just looks ugly
     
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