Brompton owners

@edscoble have you come across any good brompton baby seat setups in your travels?

My travel? no, honestly I'd advised against it and go for a trailer set-up, the Brompton have a maximum rider load of 110kg including luggage (or babies).

By 'travels' i mean working in bike shops / general life experience. Me and baby is still sub 100kg easily

All I can says is this one is the best one so far as it is actually foldable despite the step thru.

that looks more for toddlers than babies - this seems pretty great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCmQzTvtzZg

I did a year of 22mi round trip commuting on my 2 speed, from Tottenham Hale to Victoria and back, 4-5 days a week.

2 speed was fine but a bit undergeared. If I had the extra cash I'd have been tempted by ti to drop a bit of the weight, but it wasn't too bad as it was...

Changing an inner tube on the 2 speed was enough of a faff (in the dark, in depths of winter) that if a 6 speed is any more complex I would be inclined to stick with low(er) weight and less complexity.

Brompton have a maximum rider load of 110kg including luggage (or babies).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc0FoTOjkQc

In other news; the Mrs and I just put our orders in for a pair of M6Ls
Mine in raw lacquer and hers in stardust black:

(oooh shiny)

Still tempted by the electric idea, but we might go for the Swytch Brompton kits (the official e-bromp is just too $$$) I'm popping along to their workshop to try one out later this week hopefully:
https://www.swytchbike.com/

British racing green with envy!

The conversions rely on splaying the forks. It works but it’s a bodge, and voids your warranty.

The Brompton version is actually relatively good value imo, and it’s perfectly integrated.

@TM the Swytch lot have had a special 74mm narrow hub and wheel made just for their Brompton kit, no filing or stretching needed, drops straight into the fork.

Weight wise its a little less for this kit over the Brompton, and because it comes as a built wheel it means it's possible to switch out and have the Brompton back as 100% stock.
The official one meant you are always lumped with the weight penalty of the hub motor (and cables/internals) even if you took the battery unit off.

Apparently their test units are out with press this week, so should start seeing some impressions.

Agreed - i run a 56t royce ring to balance it out on mine

T

That looks very good value for money!

The kits are a little cheaper on their indiegogo page too.

Looks like Swytch is an offshoot of Panda ebikes who seem to have been around for a few years, good feedback on the Panda kits and their customer service too.
So at least Swytch doesn't seem to be one of those totally unproven kickstarter product type companies.

I like swytch as they gave me a t-shirt.

@Clockwise you tried their kit out yet?
Any thoughts?

Only at the bike show. The battery bag is better than diy solutions but the motor is just a typical bafang or similar chinese hub motor(tech hasn't moved in 10 years+). I dislike that wheels/rims won't match using these kits(or any of the similar kits).

They occupy a weird bit of the market I can never get my head around tho so I'm always going to be a bit meh about them.

The kits are a little cheaper on their indiegogo page too.

a little cheaper being 50% apparently .

The Brompton kits are discounted at the on their official site too at the moment.
25 mile:
£350
50 mile:
£450

Vs indiegogo prices:
25 mile:
$475 (£334)
50 mile:
$575(£404)

They occupy a weird bit of the market I can never get my head around tho so I'm always going to be a bit meh about them.

I guess in our case we'd both like ebikes for commuting purposes.
For me, I just can't face exercise that early in the morning and often find myself sacking off the bike for the train, then regretting it by the end of the day.
For my other half, her route is longer and has some pretty unavoidable hills, no showers at work either.

This option has attracted us over the official Brompton electric as it is completely removable so we can have 'stock' bikes for weekend and fun rides.
The battery bag solution looks a bit better than Brompton's own as it doesn't monopolise the luggage block.
It's also a total saving of about £1250 over the official ebike for what looks like very similar tech!

If you can afford it go ti, as all other weight savings that you can make won’t make frame lighter!
You’ll have to add cash to c2w voucher to get it though...
Also might want to double check that the other half will use it on the regular, as it’s a lot of cash to drop for a bike which might not be used on a day to day/week to week basis.

Yeah, agree. I'd sooner pay a bit more and have her feel like she can use it.

I believe you're not supposed to spend more than £1k (as was the limit when I bought mine - 2013) on your C2W bike, and adding cash to that is frowned upon / verboten.
However, some dealers will accommodate your needs, without making it evident on the paperwork. One in SE6 might. I'm sure he isn't the only one.

It's absolutely fine to top up cycletowork vouchers