Brompton owners

A23 are tubeless ready? So far I’ve been running mine with sealant inside the inner tube, but this is good to know, do you know if they make it to specific hole count?

Bet it won't be as much as my plastic-fantastic ones were ;-)

IIRC (I ordered them sometime ago), the hub and rim are stock 32h, although neither commonly available over here. Not sure about the Kojak handling tubeless, but at least there’s half a chance if the rim’s suitable.

The whole wheel build was just shy of £500 (crying face)

You think it’s reasonable to them to want us to more than triple our held stock with no negotiation? We didn’t have the money or space. I’d call that very fucking unreasonable indeed.

oof!
You win.

Depends on your definition of winning.

Hello all!

As of yesterday I am now the proud owner of my first Brompton. Thus, I thought the gentlemanly thing to do would be to introduce myself here (given that I own a Brompton now I am now a gentleman, no?)

My question for you all is as follows - on the run up to buying the Brompton I read so much about how you must NEVER lock your Brompton up and leave it. I couldn’t fully grasp whether there was something inherent to the Brompton design and construction that made it less secure than normal bikes when locked, or if people were simply saying that they’re so desirable to thieves that they’re much more targeted.

The kindly gentleman (also a Brompton owner so also a gentleman) in condor who sold me my gaudy orange monstrosity explained that it’s simply the latter, and that he had a million-and-one tales of woe about owners leaving bromptons for a millisecond and them disappearing faster than they can be folded...

So, what do you all do? Is it really the case that if I nip into an offy for a second to buy a fine single malt (see above: gentleman) and pop the fahhgeddaboudit on it’s not secure enough?

Thanks all
Nick
black edition H6L in gloss orange, T Bag

Bring it into the offy, that's the point of a Brompton

^ This. You'll be in the offy long enough for someone to liberate your high-resale-value bike.

Once you get into the hang of it, folding and unfolding is really quick so you just fold it up and take it with you (and you don't have to carry 2kg of lock). The best fun is supermarkets where they fit nicely in the trolley so you can push it round.

My local Lidl don't seem to mind me just wheeling the whole bike, unfolded, through the shop. Use the bag as my basket. Idyllic.

x-post from Spotted - who was this on my train last night?

Brommies are a magnet for wee scrotes and if you leave one locked up outside for long enough then the chances are someone will have a go at it. I never leave mine out anywhere - the wife and I went to the 02 arena last Friday and put both of ours in the luggage lock-up.

Once you get used to the fold/unfold you can do it in 15 seconds so just take it with you wherever you go. We’ve both got H&H racks with 4 EZ wheels on ours so you fold them up and leave the seatpost up and wheel it around like a trolley. Best Brommie mod you can do, imho.

Welcome.

I always find it odd that people lock them outside places. You'll get used to folding them, and not having to carry a lock

Loads of places still won’t let you take em in, restaurants, theatre cloakrooms etc

I indeed never carry a lock with me when I am with a Brompton.
So far only one club in Leicester Square in London refused to let me in with my Brompton (fuck them.)

Best thing about the Brompton: no need to carry lock (and I don't even wear a helmet). Total freedom.

aye, I never carry a lock, we always take them in, M&S we just wheel them around - they love it!

My other half has sold countless bromptons for me by just going around town on her Lagoon blue one and people talking to her!

I was a witness at Bromley magistrates court a couple of weeks ago.... Guess what.... You cant bring that in here mate! What? You could use it as a weapon. Im a fing witness! Well you cant. Leave it outside, itll be safe. I don't have a lock! Its a court itll be fine.... Its a court, its full of fing criminals / burglars. Oh yeah. Well just this once.

What a bell end.

Otherwise can take it in everywhere.

This weeks fun..

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Makes even more sense to leave the bars up and use them to push it about, no risk of non-consensual unfolding with the seat down.

agreed, and stick the bag on the FCB and you have yourself a fine trolley!

That's what I do on my late night shambling around Tesco on the way home. Saddle down, bars up, bottle of Chateuaneuf clutched in my sweaty hand.

Same same, some little supermarkets do ask me to fold it, but generally they're ok and amused.
Indeed I've been stopped many times 'cause of it now, by people just curious on how it rides.
And that relates to what the CEO told during that talk, the biggest issue is to make unaware people, aware that albeit it looks small, it rides very very well.

That's why I went for the EazyWheels and extender...

Hmm. Maybe I ought to try that!