Many of the bikes I collect, restore and write about are many decades old, and often require extensive research for me to even to accurately identify their model and year of manufacture. The IF Mode is not one of those. It won a Eurobike award when it debuted in 2008, followed by iF Product Design GOLD Award in 2009, where its designer Mark Sanders was honored alongside Steve Jobs, another winner that year. Manufactured by Pacific Cycles, it is described as “the Aston Martin of folding bikes.” I picked up this one in 2020 and gave it a series of upgrades to make it a perfect urban commuter. Read on to learn more.
