Montague Boston folding bike review

We've reviewed the Montague Boston, a folding bike which rolls on full-sized 700C wheels without taking up too much storage space

Cycling Weekly Verdict

A great bike for those with limited space who want to ride a full-sized bike

Reasons to buy
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    700C wheels roll well

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    Novel folding design

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Reasons to avoid
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    Not as easy as some to carry on public transport

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    Heavy

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    Fixie version is for flatlanders only

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Montague Bikes was the brainchild of Harry Montague, a 6 foot 2 inch US architect who wanted something which was a better fit for his size than the usual small wheeled folding bikes. Along with his son he founded the bike company in 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts to design and sell folding bikes with larger wheel sizes. There’s a 700C range – the same sized wheels as a normal road bike – and a 26 inch wheeled range too, based on a design used by US paratroops.

>>> Read more: The best folding bikes: a buyer's guide 

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.