Recycled commuter
Thanks to advances in technology, folding bikes are making life easier for many an urban commuter
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ON THE walls of a factory in west London are some of the oddest-looking bicycles ever made. They are the prototypes that Andrew Ritchie welded together from scrap metal and spare parts when trying to make a bike that would fold smaller than a suitcase.
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