Good points sir! I paid £30 for mine last year - missing seat post and saddle. Sleeve needed replacement, I stripped the hub (Sram) replaced bearings and smoothed the races with wire wool. Spent £150 on shop labour and parts. Sanded and sprayed rusty sections. Now I have a high maintenance £200 pain in the a**e which I love mostly 😂
@@TheBromptonGuy I know you mentioned on you last video you think straight handle bars might be better for you bike but have you given any thought on the mine P handle bars that I think would be more versatile, the original ones were not rigid enough also to accommodate the original P handle bar when folding they had to make the stem shorter , the feed back I’ve had from everyone so far who’s changed to the mini P handle bars have been amazed of the difference.
Maybe I should get a set and consider a review on the channel! From my glance I generally think they look so awful (just how they look) but function over form right.@@kavanobrien6547
We seem to have come a long way, sideways. My Raleigh 20, circa 1975, has a fully adjustable seat post, is adjustable without any tools, has yet to give the slightest indication of a problem, and has no such thing as a plastic seat post sleeve, ditto handlebar stem.
As a now a little elderly Dane (75), I have always bought "new cars", from my very first (- only and last British Car!) in 1966 (An absolutely, absurdly, horribly produced, British 1966 BMC Mini!!! Even from the corners of the front screen, water came in! (I then bought a new 1970 BMW 2002). Because the used car I had, I knew how it functioned and my new cars had a warranty for at least a year + new parts all over! And when buying a new, "British Produced" 🙄 and from the start, rather outdatedly produced bike (A square crank!!!), I asked for a new crank to be replaced, made from Titanium, but also with Ceramic Balls, at first and already paid for, "free Service"!!! (I of course had brought one myself, to be changed! Beware that the Factory for some reason to know, often has changed the Crank size, so a new version must fit that in size also!). Since then I have changed most bolts, nuts and parts to Carbon and titanium, for less weight, so that not much more than the basic frame and wheels of my now, much less than "2019 Superlight" are of some British Origin, and may be, kind of trusted to function from that!!! I haven't the actual weight, but it is less than formerly weighed 9 kilo, before the last changes, and most likely close to an Original T-line, of course also with mudguards (I'm a "Rainy Dane"), and my bike has more gears 😁! Finn. Denmark
I’d go with replacing the frame and h/bar clamps. You won’t know if the bike has been dropped/crashed. Clamp failure during a ride will be catastrophic.
Yeah I actually like how much control the green screen gives me! Ideally I would like enough bromptons one day to create a similar background in my studio.
@TheBromptonGuy the thing about bromptons is that you can get them just to have it as an art or decorative piece, they look beautiful like that on display.
Never heard of that brand before but glad it works for you. The one thing I do need to respect is that fact they continue to manufacture in the UK, certainly a reason their bike carries such a premium IMO
Off topic but lately I've been wondering what might be the max speed down a hill on a Brompton, I don't have anything to measure it but I keep up with cars in my area on a known downhill section where i know I go around 30/35mph when i drive, I wonder whats the max someone has done, also off OFF topic but i think brompton's gearing absolutely SUCKS, im quite literally never in the gear id like to be, im either too light or too heavy an can never find what i needed which is usually in between whats available, i wish brompton offered freaking normal gears, or if to keep a hub something like the 8 speed shimano hub with a carbon belt, that would be so good, better gears and a clean belt, no oil crap but they insist on an inferior system for all the money we pay, ridiculous, and since im complaining i wish brompton also offered the option of disc brakes, c'mon its 2023 goddamit.
