Ford by Dahon Convertible 2.0

New arrival and addition to my garage: a Ford by Dahon Convertible 2.0, a new old stock model discontinued now.

However I should mention that in the video I fold it wrong, the right way to fold is to fold the handlepost first and the frame later, so the handlepost goes in between the wheels.

I checked its authenticity using the hologram sticker code and it's good!

After buying it I also pulled some free stuff from the internet, and here it is:

Dr. Hon's treatise on the folding bike

2014 Dahon Collection

2016 Dahon Look

Service instructions

Dahon folding instructions

Fall Bike

Bicycling in the fall 2016 aka autumn.

 

New discipline in cycling - catch (or escape) the train.

Bicycle in the Night

From my photography blog: a lonely bicycle in the night and in some fog as well.

That's not smoke, that's fog below... and it can only be seen in the light of the camera flash when it's fired... which also kinda proves that full beam headlights won't be of much help in the fog, you'd be better off cutting the lights off altogether -- the closest practical thing to which during the night is using dipped headlights.

The below picture is taken just after the one above but without the flash. Note the stark difference.

A rural train station at night. Scary, no?

Watch of the Day: Vostok Komandirskie 2414A

My watch of the day on May 11, 2015 was this Vostok Komandirskie 2414A manual wind watch which spent the entire 2014-15 winter at my country cottage (aka Dacha) and got its first (manual) wind in 2015 on Sunday May 10, 2015. 

On a bicycle.

Also of note is the fact that I set a new max speed record on this 13-year-old cheap bike of mine... it's not too visible as the point-and-click predictably chose to focus on the grass, but it's still 32.5 km/h. I can (and will) do more though.

Cateye Velo 5

Bike computer... also known, somewhat grandiloquent-ly, as a cyclocomputer.

This Cateye Velo 5 is about 7-8 years old already. Still operates on the same battery (CR-something.

The above photo was made on the go, the speedometer reading is about 5.6 km/h. I nearly fell off the bike taking the picture, so no higher speed was achieved in the interests of safety. 

Now in the clock mode (above), while the speedometer reading is 0.0 km/h - consistent with staying put, no mistake here. The time is 15:39. Over the 7 or 8 years I have had it, I never bothered to adjust the time so it is now 1.5 hours late. The 1 hour is probably due to the summer/winter time malarkey. Also, this thing winters in my cold country villa which is uninhabited in the winter, with temperatures sometimes falling as low as minus thirties. Still it gradually un-thaws -- as do many other electronic devices (including radios, game consoles, TV sets that I leave there) and works OK during warmer times. I could probably set the right time but you do have to find the manual first.

Dst 211.03 is a trip distance, which I haven't reset in a long time.

Top speed achieved is 27.9 km/h. In fact, this is not the topmost speed as I once hit 40 km/h down some slope but unfortunately accidentally reset the computer thereafter.

Odo: 781.3 km. This is the length I traveled by this bike since I installed the computer. Overall, there's about 2,000 km on this bike. But I ride it only once every two weeks.

All modes can be cycled through by pressing one button -- the only one it has.

Odometer.