Brompton owners

I'm after an s2l or s2l-x if anyone's got one for sale.

Look like you can do that yourself with a Carry Freedom for a lots less.

Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, do they have one that fits the Brompton inside a padded bag for air travel?

Nice design though.

The Carry Freedom one have removable part, such as the wheels, the arms, etc. you can also prop it up with the trailer attach to it (picture is the smallest model)

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The only thing you need to worry is simply a case, or a large bag to put the brompton and the part for the Carry Freedom in.

I've been looking at other luggage options for the Brompton front carrier.
Apparently there is a chap in Germany who makes Brompton Klick-Fix Adaptors

I've just emailed him to see if he still makes them and would be willing to sell me one. If anyone other Bromptonians on here are interested we could do a group buy and save on postage.
I'll let you know when I hear back from him.

forgot to update about this, I got a reply back from the guy in Germany but he wanted 50 euros for the adaptor! bit steep I think.
I think I may just get a porteur rack for the surly and leave it on there permanenttly as that's my shopping-carry heavy shit around bike anyway.

On a related but slightly different note I decided on using an Ortlieb Ultimate 5 bar bag with a rixen kaul seatpost adaptor to make a rather roomy rear bag that doesn't interfere at all the the fold, and holds a decent amount too. Quite pleased with it. Also negates the 'sail' effect front bags get in a headwind. Thinking about it you could probably mount it on the front as well, the adaptor is plenty wide enough for it.

I shopped around a bit for the bag, and the adaptor was £15 from Tredz

Right. I think it's time, while I still work at a bike shop, to do awesome things to the Brompton.
I want to start with making the chainset a lot lighter.
I've seen centaur Carbon cranks on one, anyone know what kind of other options are out there?

OK, a bit of spam... I am selling bags in classified, including a vintage brompton one... If there is any interest among you. No frame though, bag only. It's too small for me and I have been using the big touring one for years now.
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http://www.lfgss.com/thread100531.html

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short photo essay on the factory here:
http://www.leonneal.com/blog/portfolio/item/the-brompton-bicycle-company/

Right. I think it's time, while I still work at a bike shop, to do awesome things to the Brompton.
I want to start with making the chainset a lot lighter.
I've seen centaur Carbon cranks on one, anyone know what kind of other options are out there?

i run sram S900 carbon on mine, works a treat

A few questions here, drivetrain totally shot on the brompton so looking at my options

Is the new chainset on the 2013 models available to buy seperately, anyone know wheres its in stock?

Mines 2 speed but going to go to single speed, is there a specific spacer to run one cog or will I have to improvise?

Cheers

When you say the drivetrain is totally shot which bits do you actually mean?

If you just mean the front chainring, they are just standard Stronglight rings. Brompton dealers do sell replacement 'Brompton' branded rings. Likewise if you need just left or right cranks, or a whole crankset. Go to sjs cycles and search for 'brompton crank'.

I have an SS model and I do have a spacer fitted between the hub and the plastic guard before the cog. I think the spacer is probably generic. Again I looked on SJS for a brompton specific spacer and nothing came back.

I take it you figured taking the shifter, cable and derailer off is pretty straight forward. The tensioner stays on as is I believe.

Its a different tensioner on the SS ones, I know the 2 speed ones would work but mines fairly knackered now. Need new chain, cogs and chainring

SJS don't have the new chainset yet

When I bought a single cog, the relevant spacer for SS came with it...

I've just joined the Brompton club, sort of. A customer at work had one with seatpost issues, and when we sent it off to Brompton they returned saying they had found a crack in the seat tube.

The customer has bought a new one, and asked us to scrap his, but the manager has written it off for me.

So...I have a c.10 year old black M6R, with a seat post that won't go into the frame, and a tiny tiny crack at the bottom of the seat clamp area.

I've stripped it right down, and most of the parts are going to be able to go right back on, or be serviceable. I'm looking at taking it to SuperTed or Ryan Oak and getting it bead blasted and checked over.

If it is only the small crack that I can see that led to Brompton writing it off, it should be easily repaired, and I may just have a bargain and a fun little project!

+1 to this have some rep for rescuing a bike and joining the brompton club, i m thinking about joining myself with a similar tatty old brompton and rebuilding it since I saw this

Buy a new frame?

I have a budget of about £0, most of which is going to go on the frame repair. Doesn't leave a lot remaining for a new frame. I should be able to amass the absolutely necessary replacement parts at cost (seatpost, suspension block, seatpost collar, new brake levers) but if the frame repair and repainting/clearcoating is much more than £150 then I'll have to abandon it anyway

New frames ain't cheap. £300+. I didn't pay a great deal more for a fully functioning tatty m6. If you just strip the area to be repaired then hand painted it after it'd save a lot of money. A tin of nitromors and some smootherite will save a fortune.

Exactly my thinking. The paint is pretty worn in some places already, so I thought I would just clearcoat over the repair and keep it ratty and tatty. Rather have old frame with new parts than vice versa.

Tom, Do you have the original seatpin and need tha larger/telescopic one. I have a telescopic on mine and would be up for swapping for the small one.

The one I have is pretty rusty but you're welcome to it. I'd rather just have the extended one than telescopic I think.

No mines got no rust. Would rather carry the weight and not make it look any rattier than necessary. Thanks though.

I have a budget of about £0, most of which is going to go on the frame repair. Doesn't leave a lot remaining for a new frame. I should be able to amass the absolutely necessary replacement parts at cost (seatpost, suspension block, seatpost collar, new brake levers) but if the frame repair and repainting/clearcoating is much more than £150 then I'll have to abandon it anyway

dibs if you do

Noted, but by abandoned I mean abandoned until I start my new job and have a decent income for a change. A free Brompton is not a gift horse I could look in the mouth of.

New frames ain't cheap. £300+. I didn't pay a great deal more for a fully functioning tatty m6. If you just strip the area to be repaired then hand painted it after it'd save a lot of money. A tin of nitromors and some smootherite will save a fortune.

I had to buy a new frame for my Brompton. Costly indeed but I couldn't imagine my life without a brompton (small crack on a frame built in 1992... not massive, but I decided to go for a new frame rather than try a repair: a repair by someone qualified / with some kind of garantee would have been, I though, expensive enough to make me consider not spending that money in case the frame would then crack at another spot). Getting a new frame also had the advantage of having the new longer wheelbase (I'm tall).
Now it was not £300+. Brompton RPP was around £248 (for the basic matt colour, it's more if you go gloss, and even more for raw lacquer). Evans agreed to let me have the 10% LCC discount on the frame so at the end I payed £225 approx (that was in july 2012)

Note that everything was OK to transfer parts from a 1992 brompton towards a 2012 frame EXCEPT for headset, which is now 1"1/8, not 1" as before, so I had to use a shim (made by Brompton for that precise purpose)

I am a happy brompton rider again.

BWC at Goodwood Orbital this year ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDWmIuxQnwc&feature=youtu.be