folding bicycle

I’ve had a Dahon folding bike for about 10-15 years. Used to take it with me in my airplane so I could get around when I landed somewhere without having to rent a car. Got it used on CL pretty cheaply. 5 speed. Nothing special but it does it’s job just fine. Takes about 15 seconds to fold or unfold.

If you want to spend the $$ the gold standard used to be the Brompton, not sure these days. There are also folding ebikes now that you could consider.

+1 on folding bike.  Have ridden one but prefer a regular road bike over it.  In our case we have Specialized Allez Elite road bikes, carbon fork and only weighs in at 18.5 lbs; so pretty easy to carry and/or maneuver when moving around.  That being said, we carry ours by two different methods.   One is to place them inside the 177, the other in the bed of our F-150.  Both methods work and because of their weight being light, is easy to put in either location.  The last thing I want to do is to be cleaning road debris off frame or grease/oil off the chain.  By having them protected, that chore is eliminated.