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Long and short of it is zips fail.

Cold wet mornings. Packing badly. Much easier to cram shit in with a roll top and sort later.

Who made the bag?

An artisan.

What's going on with the rims? Looks like a lacquer later peeling off.
Love the bike btw.

@IrPOWERranger frame and bar bags are wizard works, went roll top as had pony zips fail on a restrap bag twice and it irritated me. seatpack is revelate. Toptube bag is dyed in the wool. Basically what @Lolo said

@Chak Nah rims are all good, they're carbon 29er rims. Peeling effect is some sort of northern English or Scottish cow shit/dirt that I rode through, fuck knows what.
And thanks. I like this bike an awful lot. It's bought me an awful lot of happiness in a a shit year. Ticks a lot of internet cliches and is a little overbuilt/sellf indulgent but fuck it. Gets ridden a lot through everything.

Thanks for all the mudguard tips, new ones incoming. Dreadful noises from bike today which I hope was just bigger tyres squashing over bumps and leaning into turns and hitting the guards. It’s hard setting up a bike in the stand, then sticking a 90kg man and a 15kg toddler on the back- things move more!

Fair enough. The bikepacking bags and backpacks i have are all rolltop. But I thought it would be bulky as a frame bag. But I guess its up to packing skills.

ok that's what I wanted to bloody do. That's the bike Brompton should have built. Awesome

I just wanted to use the original fork and triangle.

Yessss

Spotted.

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I think that the front kick-stand bodge is my favorite thing with this, and obscenely long bottle cage is a close second

That beefed-up Brompton looks great—I’d be worried about the derailleur though…

That's the bike Brompton should have built. Awesome

Tend to agree, but opportunity missed to give the - what do you call those little wheels above the rear mudgard / behind the seat tube? - knobblies as well
9/10

saw this in berlin yesterday

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I presume eerder metaal are Dutch or Belgian or something? Would have thought fairly similar ground conditions to the UK then and knobblies plus guards set that close to them looks like a recipe for disaster.

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Anyone used one of those redshift stems on their tourer? I've been getting tingly hands recently from the increased amount of mixed terrain, wondering if they'll make any difference.

I don't really want to go back to padded gloves, and fit wise everything's fine on the bike. (Just bad wrists).

Love that Singular (Gryphon?)!

Peregrine

Yeah, they're Dutch. I've bought improved frame clamps from them in the past, but looking at the website they've got a whole range of Brompton frame mods - I'm rather taken with the Brompton lefty forks...

I know someone whose got one and some other suspension stem on another bike. He is absolutely loving the redshift

Speaking of Redshift

Kitchen Sink bar

Thanks!