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I'm new to Bromptons but I think so. Don't think anything ever comes attached to it on stock bikes so it's a bit weird. I thought maybe it was from bottle dynamos back when they were popular but I think it's simply for the cable rub attachment. Some of them face backwards which might help keep the cable away from the tyre on bikes with no mudguards
PhilDAS-
Both of mine have custom forks so it’s not there, I would have thought I’d have replicated it if it’d been there on the stock forks though.
I guess the first one I got was a long wheel base so maybe back then they didn’t have it, and my next one came in pieces and was already missing some brazed on parts like the rear brake bridge and seat collar.
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When you spec a Brompton without mudguards they come with a little disc attached to that braze on which pushes the cable away from the tyre when steerering, not very commonly seen
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Can confirm, it keeps the front brake cable out of the wheel on mudguardless Bromptons.
And yes, on all forks to cut down on having many different (but similar) variants of the same thing
M_V
b0n0rv2
retrodirect/glowbike
Ah yeah sorry.
Don’t think I’ve had a fork with that boss on then? Has it always been there?