PETER

The first first Swift folder was born in 1996, the result of a three year cross-country collaboration between Peter Reich, a New York based industrial designer, and Jan VanderTuin, founder of the Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene, Oregon... Peter's company, Design Mobility Inc., has created simple compact products ranging from folding lift and transfer devices for quadriplegics to an affordable easy-to-ship home floatation tank. Now settled into putting Swifts together for customers world-wide in his Brooklyn shop, Peter has also worked with student interns at Recycle-A-Bicycle sharing the fine arts of wheelbuilding, production planning, and bicycle assembly... We've been working on an idea… a bike that's solid, fast, and can fold up in ten seconds flat. One that inspires confidence on the road, slips effortlessly onto crowded trains and elevators at a moment's notice, and packs neatly into a duffle bag to follow you to the ends of the earth.