Help! I need Brompton parking!

I'm having a hard time finding places central to leave my Brompton in central London when I have out of house classes for my drawing school.
I have one tomorrow at the natural history museum, and I'm unsure if they will late me check it in the cloak room.

Would anyone mind putting my Brompton in your office? I know it's a random request, but I really need a back up plan in case the museum won't let it in, I had an awful time with the national gallery when they said no.

Are you sure you can't check it?

This time, no. I've looked at there websete and it doesn't say one way or another.
Last time I went to the national gallery for a class they sent me to charing cross station left luggage who charged me £8 to park for 3 hours.

Not great when your life budget is £3 per day.

Hey Nhatt, I've heard there are issues with the national gallery not letting Bromptons in but not heard anything about the NH museum, hardly conclusive I know.

What time is your class? I might be able to sort something on Earls Court Rd about 10min walk away but won't be able to find out till tomorrow.

I may be able to sort something out for you in South Kensington. What time's your do?

Yeah I've heard bad things about the National Gallery too...

Laundry bag FTW?

Nhatt, I'm running a building site not too far from there. There's a cellar you could store it in if you wish? It's on Gledhow Gardens:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=gledhow%20gardens&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

PM me if it's any use

It's as close as i can offer..

The Science Museum is just next door, and they say this on their website:
The museum does not have dedicated bicycle stands, though folding bicycles can be left in the cloakroom on the lower ground floor, which is accessible by lift from the main entrance.

Yup, this is a good place to leave it Nhatt, someone from work had a meeting there recently and Iknow they would have gone by Brompton.

I can keep it in my office for you on Stephen Street. Not that close, but offer's there.

Can't you lock it up? Am I missing something? I know almost nothing about Bromptons

High resale values mean they get targeted by profesional bike thieves.

:(

Can't you take the Creamroller and lock it up?

High resale values mean they get targeted by profesional bike thieves.

Even if you stuck a couple of decent D locks through it, outside a gallery in the daytime? Next to a handful of fixies with cable locks?

Isn't the Brompton Oratory just along the road - Brompton Road.

Sorry.

Fantastic about the science museum.
Saved.
I might PM a few people about a class next week, it's at the dreaded national gallery.

I've arranged with creative couriers to park it in their basement every other week before I knew that the class met at the same place every week.

I could take the steamroller and lock it up, but I bought the brompton so that I could go to class and not worry about my bike (that and the surly is... Well, posh. For a surly).

Thanks everyone, I might resurrect this space as my classes move about.
Lots of forum love!

Yay, sorted.

This is sadly true - the other half rides a folding Dahon and was once told by a bunch of kids when cycling through Somers Town

"You're lucky that's not a Brompton or you wouldn't have it any more"

=(

High resale values mean they get targeted by profesional bike thieves.

So the natural history museum charges a fiver to store a brompton.

Tim, is it useful for me to blog/keep a list of places that are brompton friendly?
I haven't found a definative blog about this, and it might be useful.

Places that are not helpful:

Kings College London, Strand Campus - massive cloakroom but "not our policy" to store folding bikes (I stood and looked at them and said very calmly, well what am I supposed to do then...? and they relented and put it in the cloakroom anyway)

I actually burst into tears on a security guard at national gallery... No good, he just waited till I left.

So the natural history museum charges a fiver to store a brompton.

Tim, is it useful for me to blog/keep a list of places that are brompton friendly?
I haven't found a definative blog about this, and it might be useful.

For sure, if you blog it I'll have someone here link to the blog of our website and tweet about it also.
I'd like to think that we could start to lean on some of these places to become a little more co-oparative.

Tim, you could also have a go at football grounds. If one could take a Brompton into Stamford Bridge, I might think of buying one.

Football grounds would be great.

Mine's been pretty well accepted during the last year and the only flat refusal I've had was from NikeTown of all places! Annoyed, and in dire need of football boots, I pootled up to AdidasTown (or whatever it's called) and was welcomed with open arms. The massive cardboard cut-out of Bradley Wiggins in there might have helped - maybe I should tweet Lance about this outrage!?

Full marks go to Snow and Rock in Covent Garden, who offered to look after it for me whilst I went shopping, and to Acorn House who put it behind the bar whilst I ate.