Good news altogether, Josh. Perhaps we'll make a pilgrimage to the faraway nearest Tern portal, aka Thor's Place, in the early spring. (We're in southern Florida..Remarkably high-quality bike shop here in town, passionate and knowlegable staff, fast reliable service, highest caliber bikes--but no folders! Probably we can change that)
I just realized I could take the opportunity to thank you for essentially everything about the Eclipse and Verge S11i.
The spirit (maybe best called the soul) of the story of these bikes' evolution as you briefly describe in describing the bikes themselves, thrills me.
Both the bikes and their conception/evolution/creation make me think of the Japanese word kinobi (you're certainly versed in the concept if not in the word, though probably in both--maybe your grandmother knew Japanese and made sure you learned to express the art-science of the unity of beauty and utility! :-).
Anyway, the synergy of the beautiful and the functional as one dynamically harmonious whole is manifestly apparent in everything I've learned so far about these 2 bikes--to my husband and me, anyway! (It means so much to us that we're determined to buy one even though there is no way we'd ever budget that kind of money for a bicycle!--which altogether, of course, is a natural element in the kinobi!)
Oh, and did I say thank you?
you are most welcome to visit us and spend some time perusing over the bikes and take them for a spin. The S11 are my favourite obviously ... they have all the goodies and still are not overloaded but look like everything is designed for this bike only ....
They are oozing class
just make sure you contact me first so I actually have them in stock for you .... I hate if somebody makes a trip out here and we dont have the bike ...
all the very best to Sunny Florida ..... arrrgh
thor
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