| If you need to stick to your principles and quite | | | | wife and 2.5 kids. Of course I'm exaggerating for |
| simply can not or will not sacrifice what your stand | | | | effect but it does make me wonder if some people |
| for then Rietti's latest addition to the world of folding | | | | really know what they're looking for if they're willing |
| bikes (or more specifically the 'Army recon' style of | | | | to change their mind faster than I change gears. |
| folding mountain bikes) has got your name written all | | | | Now to be honest I'm not much of a gearhead or |
| over it. | | | | even much of an extreme/adrenaline athlete or |
| In your case money may or not be an option or it | | | | enthusiast and I'm not keen on adding more war |
| just may be a case of refusing to compromise your | | | | scars like the ones I picked up in the year that I |
| ideals. Let's face it what you drive or what you ride | | | | squeezed my mountain bike into the back seat of |
| says a lot about who you are; there's just no getting | | | | my sports car. You see long before the good people |
| around that in today's society. Personally I always | | | | at Rietti designed their Army Recon folding mountain |
| have been and always will be a sports car kind of | | | | bike, a weekend warrior had to compensate for the |
| guy. My sports car is my identity and it says as much | | | | lack of a suitable folding mountain bike by folding his |
| about me as does my leather jacket, my watch, my | | | | backseat instead. |
| sneaker collection and my girlfriend. It's sleek, stylish, | | | | While I sold my Eagle Talon long ago and my Kona |
| fast, changes gears and changes pace in a hurry and | | | | mountain bike is somewhere in Thailand at my |
| on the fly and maneuvers in and out of traffic and | | | | father's house the endearing message is the |
| around current and potential obstacles in the blink of | | | | necessity of a folding mountain bike versus a |
| an eye. If I want to get downtown from my office | | | | standard issue mountain bike; especially one that is |
| on the outskirts of the city then I just crank up | | | | durable, reliable and delivers performance and style |
| some classic 'Prodigy' on my top of the line stereo | | | | like the Army Recon folding bike from Rietti. I choose |
| system and I'm there in twenty minutes. | | | | to travel light on my life journey now and neither my |
| Now what does this have to do with an Army Recon | | | | mother nor my sister has any extra storage space in |
| folding mountain bike you ask... Everything. | | | | their Vancouver apartment so your typical non-folding |
| I'm about as likely to trade in my sports car for a | | | | mountain bike struggles in this scenario. It appears |
| truck, van, station wagon, family sedan or even an | | | | that as big, beautiful and untamed as Canada's |
| SUV as I am to start wearing corduroys and Dockers | | | | outdoors may be nobody downtown or in the |
| or boat shoes and crocs; it's just not going to | | | | suburbs has any space to spare these days. |
| happen, not now, not later, not ever. My sports car | | | | Now let's talk a bit more about Rietti's folding |
| defines my style and YES style matters, it's who I | | | | mountain bike. While I'm not the type brave or crazy |
| am and how I relate to my world. | | | | enough to buy a racing motorcycle or even a high |
| Now personal history tells me lots of people either | | | | performance road bicycle (like my friend who |
| don't know what they want and who they are or | | | | snapped his collarbone last weekend), I've got no |
| are too willing to compromise those things without a | | | | interest in an SUV in terms of gas prices, highway |
| moment's hesitation. I can speak from personal | | | | performance or environmental consequences and I'm |
| experience. Some years back before I'd discovered | | | | not about to stick a roof rack on my sports car, it |
| the world of mountain bikes never mind the folding | | | | doesn't mean I don't harbor a fantasy or two of my |
| mountain bike or better yet the Army Recon folding | | | | own. |
| mountain bike by Rietti I bought an Eagle Talon. Now | | | | What guy doesn't like toughness, performance and |
| being a bit of a trend setter and possessing a clear | | | | panache and the Army Recon folding mountain bike |
| sense of personal style I also, before the fad, picked | | | | has all of those qualities and then some. Personally I |
| up a thin, supple lambskin button up ¾ black | | | | go for vintage motorcycles and Rietti's Army Recon |
| leather jacket on a business trip to London, England. | | | | look has that covered and for all of my GQ inspired |
| Although I was the first of my friends to own both a | | | | style aspirations what beer drinking, hockey fight |
| black leather jacket of this cut and style and also the | | | | loving, steak eating, air guitar wielding self respecting |
| first to buy an Eagle Talon I would not be the last. | | | | red blooded Canadian male wouldn't love to get hold |
| Shortly afterwards two of my friends proceeded to | | | | of the keys to a Hummer for a day. That's what the |
| buy the coat and the car and then there were three. | | | | Army Recon mountain bike is to folding bikes. In a |
| Now for me my Eagle Talon served my purposes | | | | word the 'Hummer' of folding bikes. It's big, strong |
| perfectly. It had decent gas mileage for a high | | | | and durable yet somehow it possesses the classic |
| performance machine, was relatively easy to park, | | | | cool of a Harley Davidson 'Fatboy', the smooth gear |
| could comfortably take one passenger (my girlfriend) | | | | shifting of my Eagle Talon and the clean, crisp lines of |
| and was uncomfortable enough to discourage | | | | my black leather jacket. |
| unwelcome, tag-a-longs thanks to the microscopic | | | | If you're looking for a folding bike and not just any |
| back seat. Also importantly the back seat folded | | | | folding mountain bike but the one with the power, |
| down and I could remove the wheels from my Kona | | | | style and finesse reminiscent of your very own |
| 'Lavadome' mountain bike and although somewhat | | | | independent, individualistic spirit of non-compromise |
| dirty and somewhat inconvenient in the days prior to | | | | then there's only one choice. The Army Recon from |
| folding mountain bikes I was able to take my | | | | Rietti is the only folding mountain bike on the market |
| mountain bike on regular off-roading weekend | | | | that possesses the same strength of character and |
| adventures. As for my two friends, well, six months | | | | strength of purpose that you do. |
| after buying an Eagle Talon they traded it in for an | | | | Recommended: Absolutely! |
| SUV, a mortgage and a white picket fence with the | | | | |