Brompton owners

I would have gone for beige, but the wasn't that option... :-)

I had a white bike in the past, didn't find it more dirt prone than black or red or blue to be honest

A white bike or a white Brompton?

Ill just leave it here...

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Hilarious.

Doesnt fold well, 0 servicablility.

Is that any different to the standard Hummingbird? A FOAF works for a cycling mag and had one on test - he loved it, but it's ££££. For a utility/commuter (and what else do you need a small-wheeled folder for?) I don't really see the point.

Same stem as a £400 Tern/£300 Dahon/£150 Dawes 🤮

Think how much lighter it would be with a less shit stem and without the boat anchor chainset. POC

For the same reason that people trick their Brommies up to the hilt, I guess. Think the Hum is about £3k, you could chuck a lot of titanium at a Brommie for that.

LoL

I like it, especially when they do away with the hinge in the middle of the frames which usually failed rather dramatically (like Dahon/Tern).

Only issues is simply the stem, which given the price, they could have produced their own version that's stronger and fold better.

Think how much lighter it would be with a less shit stem.

I actually seen customer whom changed their Dahon/Tern stem for a Brompton to make it safer.

The point that they called it worlds lightest bike is already funny...i think give them more years they can improve better than that..

Haven't visit theyre site yet and no clue on their background if ever this is the first one they make maybe better one on the way we'll never know...

Swap ahead for quill? Does that involve inverse shim? Or are you talking about some ancient tern/dahon?

Tern clamps have come a long way, Dahon not so much.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Brompton stem are 1 1/8 quill.

Tern are still equally bad.

the fastest I can change it is 25 minutes.

But we all know how long it takes you to change a tyre so... 🤭

We did some testing on those Dahon frames. There was a batch where they f-ed up the welds, for sure, we saw loads come back. The OK-welded ones, ie most in the 100s of 1000s they've made, passed the MTB ISO frame fatigue tests. Big tubes, short fork - fairly sturdy. But I'm pretty sure the weld process problem they had wasn't the reason ~30% of them came back, some were another cause and they fail in a similar way so they were all put in that 'duff weld' batch group. Killed off the brand's rep for many people.

My old Ridgeback (re-branded/specced) Dahon did 7 years of 3-5x a week short trips, wheelies off kerbs etc, no issues. Rode better than my Brompton in some ways tbh. Brompton's a nicer product overall though.

just arrived!

mmmmmmmmm.

disc brakes, rohloff, alfine, cassette on brompton? sure!

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Yeah, Tern are ahead?

Anyone in the market for a CHPT3 2 speed? Got a used one to move on, easy london collection!

Yup, you can do ahead to quill, some people managed to thread the steerer for s threaded headset too.

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Possibly, how much?

A FOAF might be, any details i can ping onward

Is it this one?

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