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Fellow Folders - what an experience and completely doable on M3 Brompton

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What Sort of Brompton Do I Need?

Started by Doc Embrey. Last reply by Aaron Ball Apr 16. 33 Replies 1 Like

Some of you 'Bromptoneers' out there might know this. It's about the weight and performance of some of the accessories.A little background might help first ... to further my flying-folder ambitions…Continue

Bromton

Started by Jorgen Skov. Last reply by Gordon Mar 21. 8 Replies 0 Likes

Is this a group for Bromton owners?if it is I better get out as I only have a Giant Expressway 16 gear.It only cost half of a Bromton, and the quality is a lot better.But I suppose if you dont have…Continue

Another Cheap Folder

Started by Shaun Moran. Last reply by Jorgen Skov Sep 18, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Quality is unknown but I noticed that Aldi have a folder for sale (from 22 sep) for $129 with bag.…Continue

The Test

Started by Doc Embrey. Last reply by Aaron Ball Feb 17, 2012. 8 Replies 3 Likes

Decided today to see how the folding Giant stacked up against the other bikes I commute on, so, later than usual, I loaded up the little Giant and off down the road I went. Pretty much the first…Continue

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Comment by Matt G on May 16, 2013 at 1:03pm: Saw this product which may be of interest to riders of folders:http://www.xootr.com/crossrack-bike-rack.html

Comment by Thea Baker on May 16, 2013 at 10:53am: So I had a look at the cheaper folders. They're all too heavy. Anything decent is pretty much on par with the price in Australia. So no folder from Japan for Taez.

Comment by Shaun Moran on May 15, 2013 at 8:31am: This one Thae? http://www.nycewheels.com/dahon-folding-bike-30y-special.html

$5000 for a carbon frame folder - thats cheap right?

Comment by Thea Baker on May 15, 2013 at 8:26am: So two good friends of mine are going to Japan next month and have offered to bring me back a cheap folder. WHEEEE Now just to pick one. http://global.rakuten.com/en/search?k=bicycles&tl=201683

Comment by Doc Embrey on May 13, 2013 at 8:50am: I have heard it said that a good number of bicycles to own is N+1. I studied a lot of mathematics and straight away wondered what N was. Well, I reckon N is equal to the time you have to ride them. And so, it was with great sadness that I sold the "Little Giant" on the weekend. A great little folder on which I had many small adventures. It had a trailer hitch and took me shopping, off-road down the local rail-trail and bush tracks, the forty-odd kilometres in and out of town many times and lots of exploring. It's gone to a good person though and a whole new life. Now my household is down to the last folder (the $99 folder) until the arrival of the blvk Brompton, but I can now afford the luggage ...

Comment by Matt G on May 5, 2013 at 6:15pm: Some cheap folders from Japan that may be of interest. You'd be up for a couple of hundred in postage but the bikes themselves are in many cases only a couple of hundred dollars so possibly worth it if you find something you like: http://global.rakuten.com/en/search?k=bicycles&tl=201683

Some odd English in bits!

Comment by Andy Heah on April 26, 2013 at 11:35am: Brisbane Brompton Club is organizing 2 rides in May, for those who would like to kick start their Saturday mornings but scoff at donning Lycra and/ or bending down on drop bars and/ or being barked at to keep up with the pack :P

Event links:
May 18 - https://www.facebook.com/events/444609212294900/

May 25 - https://www.facebook.com/events/124964237699528/

Cheers,
Andy

Comment by Doc Embrey on April 25, 2013 at 4:47pm: And I thought the following to be interesting too ...

Comment by Doc Embrey on April 25, 2013 at 4:43pm: Well, it's been a bit over a week since I started waiting for delivery of this years bike (yes, I'm a bourgeois cyclist) and in light of Gary McDonalds experience I have ... well a while to wait.

Anyway, today, for my own nefarious reasons, I was searching the inter-web for a concertina. Don't laugh, I may take up singing sea shanties one day. My searching becomes a but diffuse with time and at some point I came across the following video. Upon hearing the music I thought - hey, Paul Kelly - but no, it's a Swedish band singing in an Australian accent (in my most humble opinion) riding on English folders in Barcelona in a video from about ten years back. Confused? Yep, me too!

The band is called "Billie the Vision and the Dancers" - not even remotely Australian (though Paul Kelly didn't start out that way either I suppose) - just a bunch of cycling Vikings singing in Barcelona. In any case, the song is from an album going by the name of "I Was So Unpopular in School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautyful Bicycle" ... astounding that I was able to bring this rant back to the subject of bicycles eh?

And in deference to Jorgen (if you're still with us buddy) - I still believe my 2011 Giant Expressway would kick any Bromtpon into next Thursday over a quarter mile - and be waiting next Thursday for it to land ;)

Quite a bit of Barcelona cycling infrastructure to be seen here too!

The clip is at http://youtu.be/BPVb2LpHROU if the video embed fails to embed