this is a tangent, and a quite rose tinted one,but it does bring together brexit, cycling and saving lots of money. i had quite an epiphany this am. i inherited an old bickerton in a property i bought (if that doesn't mean our paths were meant to cross i dont know what does). if you look on the www you'll see that their slagged off as being unridably wobbly; impossible to adjust after folding, in a word crap.
nothing could be further form the truth. bickerton was an aircraft engineer in ww2 who based the design on "le petit", an innovative velo pliable from just pre www. the weird handlebars mean theres no road buzz; the sit up and beg geometry makes for delightful pootling, mine weighs 9.8kgs (beautifully designed weinman brakes make it obvious this is no accident), similalr to a titanium brompton. i fond myself waving it about as i talk to someone as if its a bag of shopping. but one has to acclamitise to it to discover all of this. sartre said about "le petit" that it took him a moment to buy one and a lifetime to learn to ride (
http://www.foldingcyclist.com/Le-Petit-Bi.html) . i can see where hes coming from, a bickerton has a wodnerfully addictive gentle floating ride one can experience and re-experience. But all of this requires an open mind and an unbiased orienttation to the world. which, in a nutshell, is why i dont support brexit.