How cool is that folding bike?

[Yellow Fang]

Coming out of Oxford railway station this afternoon, carrying my folded up Brompton, I heard a teenage girl say to her friends, "How cool is that bike?" I'm pretty sure it was a rhetorical question; she wasn't really asking their opinion. How about that then? Teenage girls think Bromptons are cool

 

[yorkshiregoth]

Sarcasm perhaps?

 

[Yellow Fang]

No hint of sarcasm in the voice, just admiration

 

[Arch]

packing the van after a long and tiring tryout roadshow, at the end of a very long and tiring week on tour, I was just undoing the frame clamp on a Pashley Micro (standard fold in half type folder) when a kid on a BSO stopped and said "That's a crap bike".

"Oh", said I, "well, yours isn't up to much, but I'm too polite to say so", and I folded the Pashley.

"ohhh", he said, "that's one of them cool bikes!"

"So why did you say it was crap?"

"I didn't!"

"Yes you did". Whereupon I walk away, and he's left, mouth open, trying to compute whether to be impressed or not.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I used to like the Pashley Micro. It was a nice looking bike. Originally it was made by someone else though IIRC.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Teenage girls think Bromptons are cool

Mine don't...

 

[Arch]

I used to like the Pashley Micro. It was a nice looking bike. Originally it was made by someone else though IIRC.

Yes, it was the Cresswell Fold-it. (I remembered the Fold-It bit, had to look up Cresswell)

I was riding one in York once, and a small child tugged his father's hand and said, very loudly "look at that man on his tiny bike!" The father looked a bit embarrassed.

I'm a woman....

 

[shouldbeinbed]

its the younger ones that tend to make nicer comments about my Birdy.

 

[mr Mag00]

they dont do much for me either

 

[John the Monkey]

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

Sadly not everyone recognises it as the multimodal stroke of genius that it is.

 

[TheBoyBilly]

I was just folding my Brommie outside the shops today when a Chav rode past (with his mate) on a Halfords Special shouting 'cor, I want one ov dose' and then laughing.....I shouted back 'I wouldn't want one of those'. He looked a bit miffed, dunno why.......

 

[CharlieB]

My Brompton's had the cool comment from teenagers (particularly my 15yo female neighbour) loads of times. It's always surprised me that the youngsters would find something a lot of +40yo's ride cool.

 

[Jugular]

I've had a few comments of admiration. Certianly "that's one of those wicked bikes" but I've had just open laughter and pointing a few times too. I've seen a couple of Brompton's about in Manchester but it's still an unusual sight apparently.

 

[kit-small-wheels]

My recently purchased APB Land-Rover is referred to as 'The Meccano Bike' by my wife and her friends!

I'm not sure if that's demeaning or appreciative, but I don't care that much. It certainly stops people walking by when it's parked up, and I've had numerous conversations about it as a result.

 

[buddha]

I had a teenage girl say my rack was cool, outside Sainsburys.
Though I think she meant how the Topeak panniers slide and click/lock in place