With a bit of bodging and machining special parts, I’ve fitted a Schlumpf High Speed Drive to a Brompton…
April 2009
Monthly Archive
Wed 22 Apr 2009
Tue 21 Apr 2009
One of them! The WT is massively in demand, so this is the only stock I’ll be getting this year – it’s a 57cm, and first come, first served…
Thu 16 Apr 2009
My Scorpion fs demonstrator has arrived – this is the new full-suspension folding recumbent trike from HPVelotechnik, and it’s lovely…
Thu 9 Apr 2009
The Urban Exploration website 28DaysLater has a fantastic report from the Paris Catacombs – a massive network of chambers and tunnels under Paris. One part is a wartime bunker, which used a row of stationary tandems to provide electricity!
And another equally good report here…
Thu 9 Apr 2009
Well, technically new 
The story is that I sent a wheel to a customer in Australia three years ago, but TNT lost it and then denied all responsibility – so I sent a replacement to Oz. Then, this week, a slightly battered box arrived from TNT, containing the lost wheel – it looks like it’s been sitting sad and lonely in a TNT depot all this time.
It’s ot quite like a new Rohloff – the hub is powdercoated instead of anodised and it has a sticker instead of a laser-etched logo, but it’s basically brand new and totally unused. I didn’t think it’d be fair to sell it as new, so I’ve put it on eBay instead.
It’s in my eBay shop, along with some Brompton spares and some camera stuff…
Thu 9 Apr 2009
It took a lot more bodging than I thought it would, but I’ve just finished the first Brompton with the new wide-range Sturmey Archer 8-speed hub. Now I know how to do it, the other 10 on the waiting list will be easy
This bike also has a Mountain Drive…