Black frame, black hubs, black seatpost and bars, black rims and spokes, integral rear carrier, black SON Edelux lighting,…
Lime Green Stainless Alfine Brompton
This bike doesn’t blend into the background! It’s a light ans simple build, with an Alfine 11 hub gear on a brushed stainless rear triangle.
Rohloff Brompton Demonstrator
When Howard at Velovision Magazine suggested that I send him a custom Brompton to review, it seemed a good opportunity to build a test bike.
I didn’t want to go too experimental, this is a pretty normal Brompton with Rohloff hub and disc brakes.
One thing I have tried out is a TRP HY/RD disc brake, it’s an interesting design which uses a cable to pull a hydraulic piston which then operates the brakes. It’s too big to fit the back, but works nicely on the front.
Aluminium Rohloff Brompton
A rare conversion, this aluminium-framed version of the Brompton was made by Merc I think. I replaced the very worn frame bushes, and fitted disc brakes and Rohloff hub.
Ross’s Fatbike
This is an experimental fatbike frame, with a very short chainstay length of 430mm.
Paragon dropouts, PF30 bottom bracket, 44mm head tube, and made mostly from Reynolds 853.
White Rohloff Disc Brompton
This was a fun bike to build, with loads of upgrades – Rohloff hub and Hope discs of course, but also Brooks saddle and grips, Hope headset, SON lighting and some Brompfication upgrades.
This was a new chainset to try too, quite a retro look!
And the Cinq5 shifters:
Converting a Pino to front steering
The Hase Pino tandem normally has the pilot at the back, but this one needed the pilot at the front, so I modified a stem:
And with underseat handlebars fitted and controls rerouted, it now has front steering. I also made a link to fix the rear bars in position.
Brompton Fork Weight
People sometimes ask what my Brompton forks weigh, so here you go – first the normal Brompton forks:
Then my Brompton forks, with cast ends, cast crown, Columbus blades:
Apart from the paint, there’s nothing in it 😉
Blue Rohloff Brompton
I really liked the colour combination of this one – a lovely bright blue Brompton with Rohloff hub and disc brakes.
I also filmed me folding it, to show how quick the folding is – identical to folding a normal Brompton:
Soulcraft Repair
This was a lovely handmade Soulcraft frame, which had an unfortunate high-speed incident with a bench – the rider also lost a couple of teeth, but he was probably more upset about the damage to his bike!
So I made a new headtube and downtube, and fillet brazed them in.
Repainted, and it’s as good as new!
