etrailer | Montague Paratrooper PRO Folding Bike Review

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Colin: Hey everyone. I'm Colin here at etrailer.com. Today we're going to take a look at the Montague Paratrooper folding bike. Now at first you might be skeptical of a folding bike. You might be worried about how well it's going to hold up when you're riding it or how durable it's going to be during those rigorous riding conditions that you may encounter.Now Montague actually designed this bike with the help of the U.S. military, hence the name Paratrooper.

They wanted to design a compact bike that was going to be durable enough to endure those rigorous conditions and so that those air born soldiers could jump out of the plane with this attached to them, that way when they land on the ground they can get the bike folded out and ready to go.Now Montague makes a wide variety of folding bikes ranging from your more road bikes where you're going to ride it on pavement a lot more to your off road mountain bikes. Our Paratrooper pro's going to be great on off roading, but it's also going to be great for those occasional pave and rides, should you be doing those.Now it's a full size mountain bike that has that added benefit of it folding up so that you can conserve on storage space. I'll go ahead and do that for you right now. We'll start by putting down our rack stand. All we've got to do is pull up on that level, push it out, and we can let it go all the way, fall to the ground, and we're going to pick up the back end.

It's going to sit right under the tire right there.Now we're going to come up to the front tire and remove it. All we've got to do is undo their patented click system. So flip that up. I'm going to actually pull right on that cylinder and then push as well and then bring it right up and off. Now we'll set this front tire to the side for now.We'll go ahead and set the two forks on the ground real quick.

We're also going to have to fold down our fender. So we can go ahead and do that as well. Just a little silver knob right here, we'll turn that. And we just pull it out and then it folds right down like that.Now we're going to come to the middle of the frame and undo their clicks quick release system. Once we flip the lever off we're going to have to push up to get the latch to undo.

Now and easy way to do this is I can just flip it around, bring it all the way around. It will just set right on top of that rack stand. Fold the handlebars in and bring it up.Then we're going to take this hook and loop strap all the way off. This strap will wrap around that front wheel. And then you can just secure them both to make that it stays together. Now from here just grab your front wheel. We'll hold it against our frame, we can pick it up and go store it wherever we need to.Now a couple of benefits to having a folding style bike are going to be one, you're not going to have to invest in a hitch mounted bike rack or a roof rack with a bike rack to be able to get your bike from point A to point B. Another is that it's going to conserve on storage space. If you live in an apartment building or a smaller house where you might not have space for a full sized bike, to store it without keeping it outside. It's going to be able to fold up into this compact size. And you can just set it in the corner of your storage facility or even in your basement.Now the frame has an aircraft grade aluminum construction. So it's going to hold up to those tough off road conditions that you might be taking it through. It's also going to be lightweight, which means it's easy to fold up and carry around to wherever you need it to be. It also comes in three different sizes. Montague has height recommendations for each size. Go ahead and check the description below to see if your height matches the size.And it's also going to have a five layer matte black anti-corrosion finish to help resist all that wear if you do leave it outside. Now one thing that makes Montague's bikes a bit superior to other folding bikes is that their hinge point where the bike folks is right in line with the seat post too