Brompton owners

From brompton?

Got any metal housing and swissstop (or koolstop) pads for my brommy and others?

I have some fibrax gold housings? no inserts tho!

Gold, bit flash ;)

This was on my club forum, seems to be a haul of stolen Bromptons. Sorry not sure how to copy a tweet apparently the t.co leads to the tweet)

Merton Police | #StayHome (MPSMerton) 18
#Read |#Arrested 16yr old male arrested for handling stolen goods & 22 bikes recovered. Had your bikes stolen?? Take a look. #Share with someone that has. Call us if you believe one of these might be yours. We want to return these. 📞 Call 101 and quote ref: 4996/19JAN21 https://t.co/XBVBmxBQxA
3:42 am - 21 Jan 2021 17 10

Incase anyone has had a Brompton stolen, a few recovered by met as per the tweet below

22 bikes recovered in Wandsworth a lot of bromptons see met tweet https://twitter.com/MPSWandsworth/status/1352219830288601089?s=20

If no one comes forward the thief may get to keep them.

latest build, been ongoing for a while, unfortunately customer is based in Canada so unable to get to us to collect; now up for sale!

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The locknut on my indicator chain came off which has led to my brompton effectively being single speed for quite a while. I've finally got round to finding a suitable nut so need to sort this out.

I've not done anything with Sturmey Archer gears before, how do you work out how much to screw it in by?

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NrHy2.png

Put the chain all the way into the hub, then back off 1/2 a turn, connect to the cable.

Take up the tension, in 2nd gear, the smooth section of the hub needs to be 0.5mm out of the axle.

Cheers, will give that a try.

Looking for some advice - my s2l isn't shifting properly, won't go down to the smaller cog. I've replaced the cable, seems that's not the issue. The cable is moving at the connector end but the derailleur isn't turning, so I'm wondering if the spring could be the issue - any tips?

Something I've always wondered about - why the 1/2-turn loosening of the indicator chain before adjustment? I'm sure I've forgotten this in the past, and it seems to work fine.

If it’s not backed off 1/2 and it’s moving, makes it more likely to snap off!

Take a photo and a video of the Anchorage ( chainstay area)

Not sure how this will help, but here you are

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Try taking of the DR pusher and giving it all a good clean and apply liberal amounts of grease when refitting it. Back off the limit screws on the pusher too (tbh I’ve always found these to be pointless anyway).
The gear cable going in to the anchorage can have no tension on it when you tighten up the grub screw and it will most likely still shift up fine.

If you undo the gear cable does the chain shift down or does it stay stuck in the bigger cog?

If it’s current shifter, probably the shifter playing up. Try bending the lever down towards the floor (they are surprisingly hardy so don’t worry about it snapping off), as if you’re trying to rip it off, often sorts it. Otherwise it’s to your local friendly Brompton dealer for a shifter warranty.

Ha.

I was going to do that...you win the internet today.

That sounds like a good reason! Will make sure I double-check...

Thanks all. Gave up for the day, will have another look tomorrow. @B0N0R think it could be the pusher, seems like that bit isn't moving freely but it will shift when I turn that bit manually.

BINGO!

Can you buy just the gear shifter or are they only sold with the brake lever? Feels wasteful throwing out a perfectly good brake lever.

yeah, give me an email to ryan@sjscycles.com and remind me to sort out some stock of them...