Look what I bought today...

brett Do they have no-one else to take over? He was in charge when I moved there in '99!!!!!

Now you know why the referendum for removing the Queen as head of state failed..

eyebrows no- sadly.
Instead i'm htay- just with a changed name- to a nickname from my bleach-blond days.
however speaking of australia-
The best thing i've found on youtube atm ( new zealands 4th most popular folk parody group)

All these bloody people changing their names! I can't remember them as it is!!!

Those guys are kiwis, not convict scum Aussies but very fscking funny.
I'm sure in years to come we will make them into Aussies, like anything else popular from kiwiland.

i know they're kiwis.
Thats why they have a sense of humour.
(hides).
x

Why do you think I live in England..

lpg Yeah, they're not good for long distances - nor are they very fast

Not very fast?! I wouldn't want to ride any faster on mine in the traffic here. Back home I'd ride 25mph+ because there was hardly any traffic. Maybe I just feel like I'm going faster because there's so much stuff around me, cars, peds, glass, bendy f*cking buses.

AlexB eehhhh (or whatever!)
You work next door to me!

I have a new respect for Bromptons after being overtaken by one on the PBP this year. I was doing about 30mph in the pissing rain, taking it easy and this guy shot past me at about 35+. Mind you though it could well have been because he had no brakes at all!

Natural history museum? V&A? Post office? The "Jesus Christ Church of the Latter Day Saints" (haaaa)? Royal Albert Hall? South Ken tube? The London Lite man? I'd put money on the first guess.

Brakeless on a brompton? Bromptonger.

i love flight of the conchords. and dante. well done, htay/eyebrows. it was only through a love of literature that i was able to overcome years of childhood trauma.

"I have a new respect for Bromptons after being overtaken by one on the PBP this year. I was doing about 30mph in the pissing rain, taking it easy and this guy shot past me at about 35+. Mind you though it could well have been because he had no brakes at all!"

was he skitching a lift on something much faster?

Pj's infernal invocations have given us this: a fixed wheel Merc/Brompton mutant with Phil Wood hubs, Brooks saddle, Velocity rims and Campag cranks...

looks like a ti seatpost, rear triangle and forks too

31trum looks like a ti seatpost, rear triangle and forks too

Correct - but you missed the Ti rails on the Brooks and various Ti nuts and bolts....!

fussy bugger ain't ya???

noticed the ti brooks,...... :)

Is that an elastomer thingie or has the 'suspension' been removed? I hope so!

imagine hippo on that?! i wonder what would break first?

Fixed Folder

Pj's infernal invocations have given us this: a fixed wheel Merc/Brompton mutant with Phil Wood hubs, Brooks saddle, Velocity rims and Campag cranks...

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It's my commuter jump bike :)

Anyway.. I heard someone has food??? Hand it over!

OR on his scooter!

hippy Is that an elastomer thingie or has the 'suspension' been removed? I hope so!

It's a rear elastomer from a R&M Birdy - it stiffens the ride enormously...

Doesn't it mess with the chain tension when you hit a bump and the thing compresses?

hippy Doesn't it mess with the chain tension when you hit a bump and the thing compresses?

It's not my bike, but you will see it has (God forbid) a chain tensioner in order for it to fold. The green elastomer is also the stiffest and it compresses very little anyway.

It did see something that looked like a tensioner but then read that it was fixed and thought, no it can't be..
I'll pass on that idea thanks. :)

Is there anything (besides your weight) holding bromptons open? Can they close up if you get air off a speed bump?

I see a whole new trickster sub-culture brewing...

Is there anything (besides your weight) holding bromptons open? Can they close up if you get air off a speed bump?

Yes! I've seen a middle aged dude in a suit getting 'air' bumping up a smallish kerb and it folded underneath. Scary. He looked calm enough though, perhaps he knew he was the vanguard of the Next big Thing on the streets. Coming soon... freestyle fg folder gangs doing chainring grinds on those Horeditch benches. Cool people will think its stupid, which is cool... Stupid people will think its cool, which is also cool...

Seriously though why not just have QR thingy that allows them be to locked open?! And lose the rubber bushing. I don't get that.

I expect it relies on a bit of flex to keep comfortable. It probably moves by a degree or so around the pivot, the rubber bushing acts as a bit of damping. If you screwed it open, it would probably ruin your arse after a couple of miles.

But thats just conjecture. I've never ridden one.

Got this today in the post. He sticks gift on it so no dodgy import tax to be paid.

Its skinny though so if u think ur a medium get the large

SküllheadWilderness Seriously though why not just have QR thingy that allows them be to locked open?! And lose the rubber bushing. I don't get that.

You can now get a QR locking mechanism as standard on Bromptons that stops the rear triangle from folding under when you grab 3ft of air...

fc9k Is there anything (besides your weight) holding bromptons open? Can they close up if you get air off a speed bump?

I see a whole new trickster sub-culture brewing...

I hop up and down curbs no problem on mine.

I'm so looking forward to riding fixed again for the next few weeks - I'm heading home tomorrow. Shame it's not fixed and London. I'm so tempted to bring it back and keep it in my room, see what happens.