For the Alfine G, why not just undo the rear hinge to allow the slackened chain to be removed, rather then your method, not so great when muddy and mucky from off-road riding…
I think they designed the g line as an electric bike in mind. The entire market is gearing towards ebikes. The alfine model is just the fan service model for brompton fans.
Holy cow. Image how dirty your hands are with all the chain touching in the rear wheel removable to fix a flat. Probably less likely to have a flat with that tire. Edit: actually that front chainring chain guard. Are those really necessary? Is there chain dropping happening ?
IGHs generally are not thru axle supported. They need dropouts. But gearboxes like Pinion can work with thru axles because they are located at crank, not at wheels. But I don't think that would work with brommies.
What was the reason brompton did not use a belt drive on this model, and stupidly put a through axel on the front wheel. Its not going to get any awards for this muck up..
Agreed on the belt drive Maybe affects the fold? I always carry a torque wrench as well 😂 on my rides Looks like a cool bike Hopefully the shop in Scotland helped them with the design Bill Compton
"it is important that you do not squeeze your brake lever while your wheel is removed, this could cause a fault in your disc brakes, but we wont tell you how to fix that fault, figure it out"
