How cool is that folding bike?

[CharlieB]

When I toured mine round Scotland a couple of months back, I got a remark almost every day, and started to note them down in the travel journal I keep, under the footnote 'Brompton comment of the day'. Usual stuff.

But the best remark I've ever had was on my commute a couple of days ago:
'F##k me! What did you do? Put it in the washing machine?'

 

[Bokonon]

My Brompton is referred to as "that clown bike".

He he. I refer to my own Brompton as a clown bike B)! Some people laugh at it, others are genuinely intrigued by it - it always seems to draw comment whenever I use it.

 

[ufkacbln]

My favourite was on the cycle path in Gosport, small boy on new bike, looked Brompton up and down, turned to mother and said...

"Look mum his wheels are even smaller than mine"

 

[ufkacbln]

The other deflation....

On the Catrike in Bath Lane, group of teenage girls, who watched me go by...

I loved:

"That Guy has the coolest bikes I have ever seen"

Unfortunately it was proceeded by :

"He may be old, but....

 

[Bodger]

On the Birdy I've had:

chav walk up to me, while I'm stopped at a give-way waiting to turn right, and point at the bike and shout : "cool bike" then walk off.

Kids at railway station shout "nice - that must ov cost over £100"

At a vintage bike show - exhibitors leave their stands and came over to make me demonstrate the folding and unfolding repeatedly - I had to leave after a while because no one was looking at the vintage bikes any more.

Shout from passing car: "where's yer other roller-skate, mate?"