Charge Plug

you mean you don't have the patience or inclination. I spent six months getting my first bike together.

Bully for you, maybe other people want to get riding straight away. Think this a 'you're not a proper fixed rider unless...' if it's a London thing you can keep it, I just ride a bike.

British company & design... not frame builder.

Given the cost of manufacturing in this country you can't blame them. I read with some depression the efforts Howies go to to produce their merino base layers, sending them from NZ to China to be spun, then back to NZ and to Fuji then all round the houses till eventually it gets back to h'inglan for us to fork over our folding for it. Amazing it's so much cheaper for companies to buy their stuff abroad, manufacture it abroad (somewhere else) and then ship back here then actually make it here.

Orange make a lot of their bikes abroad, as do DMR and Planet X/On-One. Curtis handbuild theirs here, but have prices to match.