Brompton owners

Just standard hubs. I'm trying to keep the costs down. I went all out on my other Brompton, this one is going to be a beater, albeit a cool looking one (fingers crossed)

Loose ball front hub?

No idea brought mine 2nd hand for about £15
The rise on mine is like 25mm maybe 50mm makes my s type much more comfortable to ride..
Say @hillbilly of Brixton Cycles parish will wine and copied him unashamedly.

Yep

sweet paintjob.

In other news my replacement forks (with disc mounts and extended steerer, damaged after a crash) are in transit - 6 months since ordering them.

6 months since ordering them.

kinetics?

yeah!

Props to Brixton Cycles.

Took my S2L in with the problem of not shifting down into 1st gear.

Fun hour spent poking around all of the possible issues before changing the cable and housing. Turns out the little grub(?) nut in the shifter had been moved which meant that (as noted by some on here) there was too much tension in the cable. Casting my mind back I lent the bike to my father in law who is a perennial tinkerer. A quick chat over the weekend and he had indeed "tuned" the shifting (tuned it so it didn't f'ing work), by faffing inside the shifter...

Problem solved. Thanks Brixton Cycles.

Normally nothing major, glad it was a quick fix!

So... tomorrow will be new seat post day, Jtek titanium, plan to also go for a ti fork / rear triangle in time, question is, lightweight aluminium bars or titanium?!

Which chain tensioner are you using on this? I'm doing a fixed conversion and would like to use anything other than a standard Brompton one.

Fixed gear Brompton? Unless your using two brakes to slow, any pressure on the chain will just pull the tensioner out and therefore not slow you, will be a right old mess. Unless you add a lock to the rear end and don’t fold it, not going to be suitable!

Fixed gear Bromtpon works perfectly happily for me. I've never tried skidding it as it's a PowerTap rear wheel and it'll unwind itself if try. But you can't certainly slow down just using the fixed gear, and the tensioner never gets pulled out. It just jiggles slightly as the bottom part of the chain goes rigid. I've got two brakes anyway.

There have been a few examples on here of people managing it. I'm not aware of any issues, but I accept the experience won't be exactly the same. This is @littlepixel 's

Edit: @danstuff beat me to it

Stock tensioner, and additional lock on rear triangle. You can se any tensioner, the Vostok one is delightful...

Planning to build up a Sturmey S2C Hub on mine - can anyone foresee any issues with this on a brommie?

Sold many, not heard anything negative back!

Okay, Brixton cycles. I might have to take mine there then.

@maynardeames definitely titanium bars. I got mine from an old mountain bike.

lightweight aluminium bars or titanium?!

I just swapped the stock alu bars for shimmed Ti bars, 560mm width. No weight saving but a nice bit of flex. Enough to take the edge of a pothole but not so much that pulling uphill out of the saddle feels odd. Plus, always nice to match the bar and post.

Can anyone point me to a service guide to the Brompton 2s rear hub?

New bike, 2 months of 3x a week commuting and the freehub has slipped a few times in the last couple of days. Pawl problems I'd guess. I found this page https://brompton.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203295871-Download-all-data-schematics of diagrams and info but nothing that explains how the freehub goes together. I'm happy servicing DTs and Hopes so should be easy to check inside it but would be useful to get a view of how it goes together.
Any tips or links? Thanks

As I recall they just pop off in one unit, with pawls and the spring attached and they’re pretty straightforward (I’ve got one at work but I’m not in today)

Mind you, if the bike is new that would be a warranty issue, no?

Anyone know the diameter of the top part of a telescopic seatpost?

Cheers, was hoping it'd be that easy. It could be a warranty thing, could just be easier to bung a new pawl set in if one's got chipped/broken somehow. Bought the bike via work/at trade anyway and getting parts is easy, assuming these are available.

.....a nice bit of flex.

Not what I look for in a handlebar.

I was/do, so I'm happy with it.
The Ti seatpost however, not sure I like the level of flex in that. It's the amount of flex in any part that's important.