Brompton owners

The 12t cog on the 2 speed gives you a 74 inch gear or thereabouts, which I found a bit too high, and I kept having to switch to the uber-spinny gear to spin it back up to a speed that suited 74 inches.
However then I found that the 13t off one of the 6 speed models was a straight swap and gives you a nice 68 or 69 inch gear, which is just about perfect.

@nodachi1 - Checkout this Japanese site, they have put pictures up since the details have been announced there officially.

http://bromptonjunction.jp/blog/?p=5898

I didn't know about the Rack. WANT M-bar + Rack, maybe new grips!

Six gears are great, happy I lucked into mine... Great purchase, so fun to ride...

You're gonna love it, Al, however many speeds it has...

I can't believe I'm posting on this thread, but I am.

I have 'acquired' a Brompto, (from a friend) - M type 3 gears.
If I had a choice go 2 gears, one for moving from a stop/hills, and one for a bit of ooomph. This is really only an option if buying new.

But I would definitely make French Larry ( @Lolo ) an offer..

Thanks all. The only thing that puts me off about Lolo's very bargainous bike is the fact that it's 19 years old and will likely need a fair bit of love to get up to standard. I know it's cheap but there's something to be said for walking out of a shop with a full hassle-free lifetime to go. Plus you get to have the and finish exactly as you'd want. Lolo agrees with me, he's buying a new one!

Been trying things in Cycle Surgery. Hadn't realized the 2 speed was a derailleur rather than a hub. Think i'm leaning towards 3 speed.

Decided on the M bars too. Thinking black and front luggage block think while I look at bags etc.

@Apone I'm not buying a new one, I'm getting a new one...

Aha! Lucky you.

How did you swing that out of interest?

I commute semi-pro.

Arf.

3 speed sturmey Hub is less maintenance. How long a wait for a chainless version I wonder.

Not gonna happen, mainly because of the folding part.

That's what I figured. Thanks.

My wife has spannered the works at bit now. I thought she was all on board with plan B(rompton) but this morning she has started questioning as to why I can't just leave one of my many single speed beaters permanently locked up at the station... I haven't yet formulated a watertight response. I'm working on it though.

Because bike are commonly stolen from station bike shed?

Could you not get rid of one of the bike instead? and my main argument is that anyone can ride it, including your wife.

Brompton's are more flexible with how you work, allow you to get to station/home easier as you can take it on public transport, mean you don't have to take a change of clothes to work, allowing you to leave earlier/on time. More in keeping with your management position.
Other bikes are designed to be ridden round your home town, one may have to be turned into a town bike with rack front/rear for shopping duties, part of moving out of london requires a change of transport, And Brompton is the best option, flexible and reliable, plus less chance of it being stolen/stripped, and needing to be replaced if beater is locked up outside constantly at work...

This is excellent. Keep it coming!

Do you sell Brompton for a living?

I got another one for you...
A kid (chasing his friend like a maniac) cycled into me I the park last week, he didn't fall and was fine, but not me. I fell off, landed on my feet which twisted under my weight, I instantly ended up with a foot twice it's normal size... A&E the following day, it's not broken but it's a bad strained ankle, ligaments are messed up...
I can't walk without crutches, and when I do I can't do it for too long, bus stop is too far, can't really use public transport to work... But I can cycle on the Brompton with a low saddle! Got a flat journey, no pressure on my bad ankle, and I was told to keep it moving as much as I could to avoid seizing it all...
Brompton saved my autonomy, could normally go to work!

They also hold their value really well if you find you aren't using it as much as you imagined (in reality you'll probably always want to keep it anyway - for me it's been my only bike with flat pedals, mudguards, puncture proof tyres and luggage potential - and the only one that's not potentially going to get stolen at any point, needing no locks).

You can use it like a shopping trolley, popping into the supermarket with the Brompton on tow and the handlebag bag open, it's much more conveniences.

Done that a few times...
And if a stubborn security person refuses you do that, just put the Brompton folded in one supermarket trolley.

Also you can come to the fabulous Brompton forum ride, hope that @dropout will do another one

Arrange to meet her at the train station and rock up with 2 brommies from here.. https://www.bromptonbikehire.com/. Hop on a train to somewhere seasidey and, when you get there, ride them both along the seafront to a secluded hotel/restaurant and back the next day.

Mine went from 'silly, filthy, toe-stubbing, cupboard-space-hog' to 'beloved and frightfully useful family member' overnight!

Come on ed it's common sense, I've got to say I'm a recent convert and until I brought one I was always a naysayer "fullsizebikes4lyf" but having a fifteen mile commute and being close enough to a train station to commute on that when hungover, weathers shit, or because I've got meetings in central london during the day mean I can now use train during rush hour rather than have to wait to get big bike on, can now still ride on days when I have multiple meetings and means I can ride in days when maybe because of the length of my commute I wouldn't have done and my journey is shorter/cheaper because I'm riding to station..

Come on ed it's common sense.

Dude I'm just being silly, reading it remind me of my colleague trying to sell Brompton at work!

Copywriter in me..