How and Why I Grocery Shop with my Brompton Folding Bike in the Suburbs 

I've done this in Costco with the Omni wheels. I never felt so many eyes watching me as I shopped for regular groceries 😅

This is awesome. I just recently acquired an ebike and love going grocery shopping with it. It's fun, I get to be out in the environment like a kid again and I get to use my sense of hearing and smell from all the honeysuckle along the way. It's like meditation while going to the grocery store, and might add takes away the need for me having a car. It's beautiful to have a car only as an option if one wants.

We wish there was a shot of how the bike rolls and is used while in the store instead of just showing the store aisles and no bike.

That's exactly how I do it! After shopping, arming your Brompton with the groceries and rolling away like a breeze is awesome!

Brompton folding bikes are the best in the market. The quality of the bike and the riding comfort for urban bikers.

Same here, that awkward distance and it’s why I just bought a Brampton. Thank you for this! Exactly what I needed and the coupon works! Thank you for that, too!

Love it! My girlfriend and I get groceries by bike in Charlotte. I pull a dog trailer behind my commuter bike, and it works great. We just toss in some re-usable bags and off we roll. Weight and size capacity are more than enough. We have a very flat route from home to the grocery store, with store options at 1 mile and 1.5 miles. Keep up the good work.

Cool, dont need a lock, bike wont be stolen, good idea.

Love it ! I've just bought my Brompton a couple days ago and I absolute LOVE IT !

Brilliant! Nice prez. again. A charming older lady demonstrated hers so proudly at NW Electric and Folding (Ballard) a few years back. And off she went, big smile!

hello, I really enjoyed the video and how well you explain it, I love your walks through your city and I watch all the videos you post, I really enjoy seeing the city and the places you show us, greetings and until the next video 😊👍

Superb video really practical example of the Bromptons versatility .

What a lovely folding bike.

Love that color. I want one

OMG Thank you so much for this video!

Getting my Brompton in a couple of days cannot wait !

This is so cool! I just got a brompton, I can't wait to try this out.

What a blast!!!!!!!! Warmest regards Jennie

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Pretty slick setup.

Taking your bike into the store is a nice option. I’d love to ride to the grocery store but I’m not comfortable locking my bike up outside yet.

Very nice color.

Thanks helpful videon👍🏻🙂

Thank you for the detailed explanation of the trolley-folding process. I got my brommie last friday so I'm still confused when to lower the saddle and when not.

Nice video 👍👍👍! New Brompton owner here. Curious but haven’t got a chance to use Brompton for shopping. Someday!

Nice color. 👍 I also have a British Racing Green brommie.

I'm about 1.8 miles from my grocery store, which does start to benefit a car more than a bike on time of travel, but it always felt like a waste of a drive to get groceries at the distance, which is actually why I bought a bike after years without one. I have found though with full sized grocery stores, that I've never had one upset with me bringing my bike in to use as a grocery cart(it's the same relative size as a grocery cart). Though the benefits of a Brompton still have had me interested in getting one for groceries and other trips where I don't want to bring a full-sized bike inside.

I have got a SuperlightM6LXBrompton with a similar T-bag, and it is easy to walk round in a shop with the folded bike. I have just mounted two 10 cm easy-wheels on my extended axle with a lightweight carbon tube in the middle. ;-)

If doing this you definitely need the wheel extender to give the folded Brompton more stability when wheeling/pulling it around. I would add that it is a must have addition anyway as without it the folded Brompton can on occasions topple over which is annoying and inevitably ends up with scratching something or the bike itself. I have an M6 L with an aftermarket ACE aluminium rear rack which looks far nicer than the OE one and is also much lighter. You can also attach panniers to it should you wish. Lots of carrying capacity with the front 31 litre T bag.

Another great video; very helpful, thank you. Have you had the opportunity to compare the Vincita Birch to the Brompton Borough Roll Top Bag (Large) for shopping? They're about the same price here in the UK, but there's nowhere local to compare the two. Any advantages/disadvantages that you can point out? Thanks for any advice!

The Safeway is 1.3 miles away. I grab my backpack, a cup of my fav hot tea and go for a nice walk. I love riding my bike but I really enjoy the simplicity of just walking and carrying my groceries home on my back.

Great video! Where did you buy the bag? Thanks

Can you add thicker knobby tires?

I have question to shopping like you did, do you need the rear rack? or can the new T line with two wheel at back and one little one wheel on the rear fender also do this? I would love to have seen a close up shot how much clearance you have when rolling the bike in a shop, how big the wheels most be...

I don't know about the US shops but here in the UK the supermarkets have cameras on you from the moment you enter. Some stores will not let you use your own bag to carry items to the till because we are all assumed to be shoplifters. I, hopefully, will have a Brompton in the next couple of weeks and really want to use it to shop. Fingers are crossed that my local supermarket will allow it.

The best thing about a bag is that you don’t need other bags. It makes sense but i think everyone knew that, somehow.

Nice video! Which model is your bike?

The big dark side of Brompton is the frame of which is not made of alloy instead it is steel prone to rusty,

Nice😂

You got a Brompton, and from REI 🧐🤔😊🤗🙋‍♂️🙂

I use my car for grocery and normal MTB for riding.

Have you ever had difficulty getting your Brompton into places such as coffee shops or restaurants? A café employee recently instructed me to leave my folded bike outside the shop, which is located in front of a bus stop near the crowded market. I didn't bring a bicycle lock, and the coffee shop didn't have a secure bicycle parking area. I'm living in Thailand. Is it OK, for example, to bring a folded bike into a Starbucks and leave it at my seat? Finally, I decided to leave the shop because I couldn't bear the thought of leaving my bike outside unattended.

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I love taking my Brompton for errands including grocery runs! Unfortunately it does get a little awkward when my wife and I take our bikes to a restaurant or smaller stores due to the extra space it takes up. Would you consider doing a video for these situations?

And - what model of Brompton is this? Thank you! Jennie

Hi, wondering how comfortable is the seat?

I don’t bother folding my Brompton when I take it into the store. It’s smaller than a shopping card and is less cumbersome to walk around. Dragging it around folded is a balancing act that gets tiring.

In Germany not allowed to take a Brompton into a grocery store

Where did you buy it from

Some days you don't feel like being the centre of attention in a store, and that is enough of a deal breaker and deterrent to leave the Bromoton at home and take your other, more conventional bike.

LOL, I thought you would be riding a mamachari like the certain anime character....

Which country are you based in?

Theirs is no way you telling me that bike is faster than a normal urban bike, I tried that bike today, it’s slow, not energy efficient at all. 10 pedal rotations equals 2-3 rotations on my 29” bike. Don’t even want start mentioning the bumpy ride you get out of that.

YOUR bag is not very spacious, I like bags like the T bag and the one by Valerie and even by vincita bags are good..

Your road is pretty awful !!! Makes riding with small wheels a bit uncomfortable. - I have 2 electic Bromptons & try to avoid bad roads if possible.

I have a similar Brompton green one - in -one, only a C17 Cambium saddle and a bag I use Brompton Boraught!Brompton turned out to be a lousy brand, unfortunately, which abandoned its customers and supported sanctions against Russia!I am a simple doctor and not connected with the war and have no weapons! Visa and MasterCard are gone too !We remembered it !No one will use more of their cards on the territory of the Slavs

Because you can't afford a real ebike.

I've been riding this bike for about a month ru-vid.comUgkxwC0IIeIomGQVeBWg-kKJaToZkLEFIA2W and a half now and I think it's fantastic. It helps me get to work on time every day since I'm able to fit it inside of public transportation rush hour. The price is great too, people are always shocked when they ask me how much I paid for the fold up and I tell them "200". It's easy to fold and installation when it ships is insanely easy. All you have to install when the bike arrives is one foot pedal, everything else is done for you. I do recommend you carry some sort of wrench to tighten any loose screws on the handle bar and seat whenever they get a little bit loose. Other than that I think it's a fantastic bike. Easily fits in the home, can fit inside a car trunk and can even fit in subway rush hour.

I do this kind of shop all the time on my brompton, load up with stuff around the store and unload it all to pay for at the checkout, never been challenged to use store baskets only, can only buy the amount of stuff that fits in my brompton basket bag, love it !!