Brompton owners

Does anyone have a source for 172mm straight pull bladed spokes (black)? I’m building a 16” wheel and can’t find anyone online who sells bladed spokes near that length.

Are single or double wall rims better for a Brompton?

Also can anyone recommend a source for Brompton sized rims?

LBS?

You’ll be lucky.

Building small wheels is the one time I’ll use straight guage spokes as even butted are difficult enough to find in the sizes for 20” or smaller wheels.

I’m not saying they don’t exist but would likely be Brompton specific so it could be a case of there’s one or two brands that do them that short.

I love those Paul brakes so much, totally unnecessary upgrade in my situation but so fucking lush. Do they come in black? 💸

its a disease

In theory Pillar go down to 170mm.

https://www.pillarspoke.com/spoke/aero

Tried but we don’t stock them ;)

@M_V- it seems increasingly unlikely that I’ll find the supplier. They came on a pair of SMC wheels so hopefully they’ll reply.

Thanks! I had seen pillar had some Ti spokes that saved 0.0X grams per spoke, but finding 170mm non-plain gauge in stock anywhere has been the hardest part.

loved that the first five component swaps in his video are reasonably priced. was just waiting for the 'Paul' reveal since it was the screenshot for the video. you could probably buy everything else he promoted for the cost of a pair of those brakes.

I had expected the suspension block to get on the list maybe the P-Line comes with something stiffer as standard.

P-Line is stiffer but 'bouncing' still happens at a certain cadence from what I see when watching other people ride on them. I reckon most third-party upgrades are better than the stock option.

I’m not saying they don’t exist

They do. I built up a pair of Brompton wheels with Sapim CX-Ray spokes. They were a bugger to source though, and the spokes on the rear wheel proved to be snaptastically unreliable.

Some of the velomobile sites in Germany have a good range of smaller spokes:
https://shop.ginkgo-veloteile.de/

Morning all, Some advice pls. I've a 2024 c line explore. I end up wheeling it folded a decent amount & and the handle bars catch on the ground etc. Pretty annoying, not the best.

Anyone had a good experience of upgrading the wheels / getting the extendable ones to make wheeling easier.

Just about to ask this. Thank you.

Get some Ezy wheels or any grey market equivalent.

Have also seen in-line skates wheels being used to good effect - those with LED in them!

Also worth checking the stem catch bob thingy is set correctly, handful of counter clockwise turn maybe?

A rack plus one of those wheel extender jobbies will be your best bet.

Thank you! Found the ones but €36 shipping/BoJo tax for 20 spokes is too rich for my blood. :)

Winter is coming... Has anyone seen the equivalent of the Be Seen front light that will fix to the newer brake levers, annoyingly Brompton sells them as a set and i don't have a Brompton saddle so the rear light is useless to me. I currently have older brake levers and would like to move bell and visibility light onto the levers through that upgrade.

Also looking for something like the Brompton tool kit container to stash existing tools into the frame Found on ebay

A 4.75 kg T line. Impressive what can be achieved, but I don’t even want to think what it cost to build

https://www.reddit.com/r/Brompton/s/2AKQDW5bM1

Can't believe I didn't know there was a carbon rear triangle available!

How has HoKe not done this yet?!

Discs too:
https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005004056037484.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2vnm

That Reddit post is like an ad for silverock, who make those carbon parts.

Recent carbon cracks has not given me much confidences in that material...

Trustworthy?