Brompton owners

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.