Brompton owners

General improvement, the new levers and brakes are worlds apart from the older style levers and brakes that I presume you’ve got in yours. Newer ones are far more comfortable, much greater modulation and power and far less flexy in my view so that’d be my first upgrade. May need to be careful on which brakes, as I think they have gone from 5mm bolt to 6mm bolt but careful drilling will open up the fork and frame mount 1mm to fit them (Brompton suggest this themselves!)

From 6mm to 8mm rear!

Brakes, brake levers, tyres, wheels, fresh drive chain,

Normals like rear hinge, seat sleeve etc… has a professional seen it? Feel free to send some photos / or the bike to me @hobbs cycles somerset

Thanks I have done tyres and a new chain & rear sprocket - nothing else you list has been done and no a professional has not looked at it.

I’ll start with some pics and send them along.

More than I thought then! Knew it had changed but you built me one with disk brakes so no need to remember all that now 😃

Alfine purple, one of the greats!

First week of touring has gone by, more than 300 km under the belt. The bikes have been flawless and, predictably, we packed too heavy.

Yesterday we also went to Amersfoort, at the Eerdeer Metal HQ, to pick up a seatpost stopper and a framehugger rack. Vincent is a really nice chap and I strongly encourage to visit him (or at least his webshop). The seatpost stopper is working as advertised and after an entire day on cobbled streets the post didn't slide a single millimetre. Worth every penny

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Is this Scheveningen? If so, I was there last month and couldn't believe how nice the bike paths were amongst the dunes!

Yes it is! Very windy but also not something I've ever seen where I'm from!

Yeah, we were lucky enough to have a tailwind the whole way between HvH and Amsterdam, would have been grueling otherwise. I had a great time blasting along, not having to come in contact with traffic for miles and miles. Where are you off to next?

After Scheveningen we pedaled back (against the wind, obviously) to The Hague, Delft and now we're gonna pass the night in Rotterdam. Tomorrow we'll take a train to Antwerp and later in the day a Flixbus to Bruxelles, where we're gonna spend the couple days left. So far so good!

Ps about the infrastructure, I 100% agree with you. Wearing a helmet here feels more like a choice and less like something mandatory

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Question for the hive mind, is there a particular trick to brompton calliper break alignment? They seem far more sensitive to get right compared to a set of 105 roads.

Touring bromptons of LFGSS, 21 hours riding and 440km later after a friday night arrival to Amsterdam.

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Also interested in this, as always get a fair amount of friction, rather than a nice free spinning wheel.

Pull brake lever,tightnen backing bolt and then grab the caliper and hand move it to where it needs to be before fine adjustment with the top screw

It’s on the ‘bay now, sorry

Thanks

That's my jam! Have a good vacation!

These images suck but this is for sale in Lewisham. I don't know about this shop... It feels like all the stock in here is police auction stuff... Or its just stolen. In any case, this is quite tricked out. £1,200. Sorry for shit pics.

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It's XO bikes. They re-cycle s/h and unclaimed bikes. Apparently, they are the Met's unclaimed bike re-cycler of choice. They are staffed by ex-offenders. It is probably a legit deal.
ETA - And, as you say, given some of the upgrades fitted, it looks like someone loved that bike at some point.
https://xobikes.com/product/brompton-black-foldable-bike/

Makes sense.

Every bike comes free with that gross giant handcuff bike lock (!)

Appears to be a single brake [sweet sweet fixeh]?

A bit of after market carbon, i'm not sure i'd totally trust that on the ride home

Coaster brake. Can see the torque arm clamp on the chainstay. It works even though everyone says it shouldn’t with a tensioner, but it’s not ideal.

Took my Brompton in for a service today.

And ordered a new one!

The models have all changed since I last looked, I'm looking at a plain black, black edition C-Line, 6 speed, no rack, high bars. Stock seems to be non-existent, I'm not in London, is this actually available to buy?