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http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2013/feb/09/brompton-best-bike-cycle-to-work
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"Is a Brompton the best bike to cycle to work with?"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Depends.
Ok, next question...
Posted 11 years ago # -
[Occasioned from one of the Gruainiad comments]
I'm glad I'm not the only one to have noticed the apparent fury-enabling properties of the 16" wheel. I've never witnessed the same level of indignation emanating from a rider whose π needed more than six inches.
I hasten to add that the CCE Bromptonauts I have witnessed thus far have been perfectly serene.
Posted 11 years ago # -
There's a guy cycles down the NEPN at a good speed on a Brompton and I'm pretty sure it's only the narrowness of the handlebars that gives him that chin-thrusting, elbows-out, outamywayI'mcomingthrough look.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Other brands are available -
(Though too expensive for 'bike to work' scheme.)
Posted 11 years ago # -
I rode my Brompton today for the first time since about October. It was hard work!
I only used it for the two and a half miles to the supermarket and back, but the big front bag does make a nice bucket for tins and loaves and milk and things. Normally I'd take the little recumbent and my touring panniers, but wanted to try Eddie's narrow Brooks (there may be mileage in it, too).
The case of Brompton vs. Others will probably go down in history alongside Shimano vs. Campagnolo. For folding, I'd pick the Brompton. For riding and a bit of folding, I'd pick a Dahon. For riding and occasional disassembling, I'd pick a Bike Friday or a Moulton.
Posted 11 years ago # -
If you saw tonight's Top Gear, you'll also see that James May on a Brompton is not as quick as Richard Hammond running.
May was hammering along an a fetching pared-down Brompton at the end of tonight's Top Gear challenge. The rather pleasing thing was that in the 800 mile race, May and Hammond both travelled by train and then foot or Brompton to their destination, and both beat Clarkson in his Ford Mustang.
Posted 11 years ago # -
And a runner beating a cyclist (over anything but the shortest distance) proves what a tired, repetitive fiction that programme has become. (I used to quite enjoy it too)
Posted 11 years ago # -
...and on the BBC again:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36083906Posted 8 years ago # -
It is possible to run uphill faster than a person can cycle uphill, but you need the right combination of runner and cyclist. I've done it myself twice
1) on some reasonably technical terrain in the Pentlands, where running made it much easier to pick my way over it
2) going up Gillespie Road where I ran past a person spinning slowly up on a MTB and both of us were easily passed by a roadie putting some effort in.To answer the original question: a Brompton is a great bike for a bike-train-bike commute. It is not the bike I choose when I go for the 16-miles-each-way commute!
Posted 8 years ago #
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