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Hmm. Will continue my thinking.
Thank for all that input - appreciated.
@gembo - i left early, i presume the guys got you sorted re the mudguards?
If wonder if they might not be 'my thing' these Bromptons. It is def one of those decisions i might have to look at the numbers in more detail than my 'feelings' about it. Plus there is a high chance this will go nowhere anyway - I can't see Brompton offering it TBH and i am not one to chase...
tbc,
All Brompton dealers I've been to only keep one or two in stock, I don't think Dales had any the last time I was there. Evans at Braehead have one on the floor and it always seems to be an M type. Being such a big concern they can supply more models quite quickly of course. Even Kinetics only kept a couple to try out. There is probably a gap in the market on the west coast because Kinetics is no longer an official dealer but in the east there is BikeTrax. My experience of them is that they don't know nearly as much about Bromptons as Ben at Kinetics but if you order things from them there is a reasonable chance of getting a reply the same year. When I was last in Dales there was a customer in looking to buy one. The guy in the store did know all the available options but didn't seem to have used a Brompton.
These days you would also be competing with SJS.
They keep a huge range of Brompton parts on a well organised web page. I did try hard to support the local dealer but now I get all my Brompton parts from SJS since Ben took six months to replace a hinge. The next time I need a new hinge I will have to decide whether to pony up for the reamer or take a chance on one of the remaining dealers in central Scotland. I don't trust Dales, BikeTrax is footery for me to get to and Evans is an unknown quantity.
Folders, mark at TheBikeChain explained to me that Evans have an arrangemetn with Brompton to stock one model only. Brompton Rep was saying that if tbc work out a way of programming all specifications to be in stock for a shop then Brompton would buy the programme, that is how complicato it is.
Mark - mudguards sorted with addiitonal (but at no additonal cost) bracket where the thread inside the frame had gone. James Mechanic to be commended, though he is now I understand snowboarding in remote part of austria,
So they stock the M type which seems OK with most people. I suppose it's OK with me too, that's what I've been using almost every day since October.
The whole thing makes sense to me, I keep spares for three different ones. The S types both use the same cables. My M type is an old short wheel base. I have three different types of back wheel running just now... and three different types of front wheel too.
Of course I don't need to worry about the colour.
If they could cut down the delivery time for non standard models it would cheer up a lot of people. I think some of it is down to their market getting bigger and it takes time to train up staff. Mine are all fairly standard black ones. The first one came from BikeTrax and took a couple of weeks to arrive. The other two were from Evans and arrived in a couple of days. Evans claimed to know nothing of Schwalbe tyres and presta tubes so I just took them with standard Brompton tyres and swapped them later.
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