Not sure i understand all the economics. You got your consignment bikes back, you got 2 bikes to cover the $1000 bad check. Did you take additional bikes? How did that work?
On another forum i follow, a technical forum, they had a surge of bot activity a week ago. The bots were downloading huge amounts of data to build their knowledge base, unfortunately they were causing the forum to incur a lot of service fees for the activity.
I bought a Fold 1 regular this fall because i needed the very low stepover height. I like the bike, but wish i had bought the Plus. The regular is on sale for $995 which is a good deal.