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To be honest, unless you know what you’re doing and have access to parts at trade price and the tools to do stuff then you’re probably better off just buying a complete bike. The one you’ve linked looks good but a bit pricey at £600 - I paid £450 for a similar one for my wife, altho the seat tube sleeve needed replacing (cost £5 in parts). The serial number looks like it starts with 13 which indicated the year of manufacture, so it could be approaching 9 years old. I wouldn’t pay more than £500 for it, tbh. There are plenty out there so don’t rush and buy the first one you see.
You can always tweak it to your tastes later, altho I’ve had mine three years now and all I’ve done to it is put a wee rack on - I had plans to mess with it but it’s a commuter bike and I think it works best as standard.
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@TM @maynardeames @jj72 Thanks for your replies. Really appreciate the info.
So any frame that could be knackered is obviously a no go. That idea partly came from a discussion with a friend who was working as a welder at Brompton who said he could easily access frame parts with slightly off welds, but that was donkeys years ago and not really an option anymore.
Work doesn't do cyclescheme and my ideal Brompton will be customised anyway so I still think that a frame from 2010 onwards with decent components that I can chop and change is the answer.
Something like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blue-Brompton-folding-bike-3-speed-hardly-used-and-stored-in-my-Office/113287387612?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649