Folding Bikes, Recumbent Bikes & Trikes, Cargo Bikes, Tandems, Custom Framebuilding
This is the second year I’ve built a charity Brompton for Christmas – starting with an old bike kindly donated by Jon Oates, I repainted the frame and rebuilt it with all-new parts, then auctioned it – it raised £800 for Medicins Sans Frontiers! This bike had mostly normal modern Brompton parts, but with a 5-speed Sturmey rear hub and Brooks saddle and grips. Continue reading “Charity Brompton”
Winner of the Safety category in the Rail Partnership Awards 2018!
The Rail Incident Response Stretcher is a folding stretcher designed to run on a rail track, to make incident response safer, faster, and more dignified. Used by two personnel, the stretcher can be quickly unfolded and wheeled to the incident, but it is light enough to be carried by one person and small enough to stay in the boot of a car. Continue reading “Rail Incident Response Stretcher”
This build has a Rohloff hub with a titanium rear frame, titanium forks, titanium seat post, titanium bars, titanium and carbon rack, SON dynamo lighting and lots of other lightweight parts to get the total weight down to 12.06kg! Continue reading “Fabrice’s Titanium Rohloff Brompton”
This shiny build has a copper-plated frame, which has been lacquered to keep it bright (unlike the aged copper Brompton I built a while ago). It’s got a Rohloff hub, and SON Edelux dynamo lighting, and is finished off with some matching copper parts. Continue reading “Ben’s Copper Rohloff Brompton”
This all-ivory build got a red Rohloff hub – a great colour combination! Continue reading “Duane’s Ivory Rohloff Brompton”
This was a conventional Brompton, but it’s been completely upgraded with Alfine-11 gearing, SON dynamo lighting and Hope hydraulic disc brakes. It also got bottle cage bosses on the stem. Continue reading “Toby’s Upgraded Brompton”
This light and simple build ended up at 12.2kg – pretty respectable considering it’s got a Rohloff 14-speed hub in it! Continue reading “Frank’s Titanium Rohloff Brompton”
A different colour combination for this build, with raw lacquer mainframe but black extremities and components. This Brompton has Alfine 11-speed gearing. Continue reading “Baptiste’s Alfine Brompton”
A very colourful combination! This Brompton has an Alfine 11-speed hub gear with JTek shifter, and SON Edelux lighting. Continue reading “Stephanie’s Alfine Brompton”
This fun build has a grey mainframe with red Rohloff hub, SON dynamo, Edelux light and Hope headset. The shifters are the Cinq5 thumbshifters, and it has Big Apple tyres with my integral rack. Continue reading “John’s Big Apple Rohloff Brompton”