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I wish I’d been at the Brompton World Championship

August 29, 2011

Another weekend of rain – even a hurricane – when I could have been living it up in London after the Brompton World Championship. Darn! This year looked like a good one too, with custom Brompton bikes as prizes and lots of great costumes – as usual! Instead we spent all Friday clearing out our [...]

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The Best Folding Bikes of 2011

August 17, 2011

Folding bicycles have always been more popular in crowded cities like New York but as folding bikes get better and more affordable their popularity is spreading out across the entire country. What was once cause for a double take is now a common sighting on the local bike path. Folding bikes have – almost – [...]

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Brompton – The folding bike for airplanes

August 11, 2011

Bromptons make some of the best all around folding bikes for airplanes. I recently received an email with a first class example of their super portable nature. Check out these two titanium Brompton folding bikes in Piper Sport personal aircraft. Pretty neat right? Brompton is the folding bike for airplanes I know it’s unlikely, but [...]

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New Brompton S-Bag Design

July 30, 2011

Hey there, Brompton folding bike fans! Peter’s on vacation this week, and since it’s been quite some time since I chimed in on the blog, I figured I’d give my two cents on something I recently picked up for my personal Brompton S2L folding bike – the new S-Bag. Brompton Bags: Convenient Storage Any city [...]

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Brompton bike travel stories

July 27, 2011

One of our recent customers and good friends, Joe D., has quickly gained a reputation for Brompton bike travel. His loyalty is impressive, traveling to our shop all the way from PA by train or by bus, and taking his Brompton folding bike all over the country. Recently, after a front fork replacement due to [...]

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Coolest electric Brompton bike ever!

July 25, 2011

We’ve done quite a few stellar conversions of Brompton folding bikes to electric Bromptons but this one is way up there at the top. It’s got everything: a flashy color, custom wooden fenders with Pac Man graphics (see our Brooks Brompton post for more on these), removable MKS pedals, ergonomic cork grips, and – yes [...]

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Electric Brompton folding bike: NYC to Seoul

June 17, 2011

It’s a unique product, the Brompton folding bike. Add an electric motor kit to it and, well, there you have it… an electric Brompton folding bike. It’s a bit more portable than a regular electric bike, “a bit.” A bit easier to take with you on a plane to say, Korea, for example. Journey everywhere [...]

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Register for the 2011 Brompton World Championship

June 15, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my pleasure to (belatedly) let you know registration is open for the 2011 Brompton World Championships! I don’t know how I missed announcing it on opening day, perhaps it’s been the whirlwind summer we’ve been having here at the shop. We haven’t been able to keep Brompton folding bikes in [...]

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Are those folding bikes really that different?

May 18, 2011

You’re cruising the web, searching for folding bikes, trying to determine the relative size of a bicycle from the manufacturers “folded bike” picture, you’re really not getting a useful comparison of size. So far I haven’t seen much in terms of a good size comparison (and let me know if you’ve found one) and I [...]

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Folds Up! Folding bicycle ride this weekend

May 13, 2011

Seems like this is the weekend to be a folding bicyclist in New York City. Between the Folds Up ride and the Brommie Yummie, New York is about to be over run by folding bikers! Truth be told, the Folds Up! ride is the king of folding bike rides in the city. Every year it [...]

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