Folding Bikes, Recumbent Bikes & Trikes, Cargo Bikes, Tandems, Custom Framebuilding
This was a fun pair of bikes to build, because they were so bright and colourful! Both have integral rear racks, Rohloff gearing, disc brakes and SON dynamo lighting.
Continue reading “Two Colourful Rohloff Disc Bromptons”
This Brompton build has an Alfine-11 hub gear with Gates belt drive, SON dynamo lighting and Hope hydraulic disc brakes. Continue reading “Alfine-11 Belt Drive Brompton”
This Brompton build has the Shimano Alfine 8-speed hub gear with TRP Spyre cable disc brakes and a mix of black parts. Continue reading “Rogerio’s Alfine-8 Disc Brompton”
This build used the lovely Lagoon Blue mainframe, with a silver Rohloff hub, SON dynamo lighting and Brooks saddle. Continue reading “Thomas’s Rohloff Brompton”
This is the second year I’ve built a charity Brompton for Christmas – starting with an old bike kindly donated by Jon Oates, I repainted the frame and rebuilt it with all-new parts, then auctioned it – it raised £800 for Medicins Sans Frontiers! This bike had mostly normal modern Brompton parts, but with a 5-speed Sturmey rear hub and Brooks saddle and grips. Continue reading “Charity Brompton”
Winner of the Safety category in the Rail Partnership Awards 2018!
The Rail Incident Response Stretcher is a folding stretcher designed to run on a rail track, to make incident response safer, faster, and more dignified. Used by two personnel, the stretcher can be quickly unfolded and wheeled to the incident, but it is light enough to be carried by one person and small enough to stay in the boot of a car. Continue reading “Rail Incident Response Stretcher”
This build has a Rohloff hub with a titanium rear frame, titanium forks, titanium seat post, titanium bars, titanium and carbon rack, SON dynamo lighting and lots of other lightweight parts to get the total weight down to 12.06kg! Continue reading “Fabrice’s Titanium Rohloff Brompton”
This shiny build has a copper-plated frame, which has been lacquered to keep it bright (unlike the aged copper Brompton I built a while ago). It’s got a Rohloff hub, and SON Edelux dynamo lighting, and is finished off with some matching copper parts. Continue reading “Ben’s Copper Rohloff Brompton”
This all-ivory build got a red Rohloff hub – a great colour combination! Continue reading “Duane’s Ivory Rohloff Brompton”
This was a conventional Brompton, but it’s been completely upgraded with Alfine-11 gearing, SON dynamo lighting and Hope hydraulic disc brakes. It also got bottle cage bosses on the stem. Continue reading “Toby’s Upgraded Brompton”