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Hands-on test ride before you decide
15 minutes in the showroom, all three models, expert fitting. Free, no obligation.
OUR STORY
LMile is built on a simple bet: that a folding bike, properly chosen and properly serviced, is the Melbourne commute solution most people have never tried.
BEGINNINGS
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Brunswick
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Metro train
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Flinders Street
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Under the desk
For years I rode a folding bike from Brunswick to a desk in the CBD. The bike spent ten minutes on the train, sat under my desk for eight hours, and got me from Flinders Street to the office in under three.
But every time a friend asked "where do I buy one of those?" the answer was unsatisfying. The good options were either $4,000 imports or unbranded ones with no warranty story.
LMile started as a way to bring ACEOFFIX — a folding bike already trusted by hundreds of thousands of commuters in China — into Australia properly. Local stock, local service, two languages, real warranty.
BUILT, NOT ASSEMBLED
ACEOFFIX frames are brass-brazed by hand in the same Chinese workshops that have been building folding bikes for two decades. The joint you see in our hero image is real — that is the moment a 6069 aluminium tube becomes part of a frame.
Every LMile bike that arrives in Melbourne is unboxed, torqued to spec, brakes bled, drivetrain indexed, and ridden around the block before we hand it to you. Nothing leaves the workshop on the assumption that "it was built fine at the factory".
Unboxed in Melbourne
Torqued to spec
Brakes and shifting checked
Test-ridden before handover
WHAT YOU GET
A bike is a relationship, not a one-time transaction. Here is what owning an LMile actually looks like.
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15 minutes in the showroom, all three models, expert fitting. Free, no obligation.
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5 years on frame and fork, 12 months on drivetrain. Australian Consumer Law applies in addition.
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Workshop in Melbourne, conversations in English or Mandarin, parts on the shelf.
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Aerra is built for upgrading. Lumio and Gravon take standard parts. We know the catalog because we ride them too.
A 15-minute test ride is the fastest way to know if a folder is for you.