The 9 Best Folding Bikes to for Commuting, Exercise, and Fun

When you think a folding bike, you might picture a decidedly small, underwhelming bicycle that’s not much fun to ride, can’t support much weight, and could never take the place of a standard bike. And that would be quite accurate were we living a decade or two back. As while folding bikes have actually been around since the days of WWI, the best folding bikes you can buy arrived on the scene only in recent years.

Today, you can get bikes suitable for hours of cycling on streets, sidewalks, and even trails that will nonetheless fold up and tuck away in a car trunk or hall closet. And you can even get folding electric bikes that just may replace your car if you have a moderate commute. Folding bikes can be used for everything from point-to-point transit, for fitness, for fun, or for some combination of those and more.

Here are 9 folding bikes to consider whether for your short haul to work or the shops or for your all day cycling adventure.