This T&C Pocket Bici is a folding bicycle made by Tresoldi & Casiraghi, an Italian metalworking firm, in 1963. Unlike the folding bicycles of today that split in half, the components here all fold into the racetrack-shaped frame. The whole thing then fits within its own suitcase. (Brompton bike in the photo for scale.) The bike's origin story is a bit murky; one auction site claims it was created specifically for the Chinese market, and that 2,500 units were sold. In contrast, BikeFlip says a Chinese group placed an initial order for 2,000 units, but that after T&C produced the first 1,000 units, payment never materialized and the project was scrapped. I could only find one video of the bike being unfurled: Notably that channel is Chinese, so it appears at least some of the production units landed in the originally intended market.

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