Just ordered a new lightweight Brompton

[Jon George]

In a complete contrast to my normal impulse buying (especially any time concerned with cycling), I have taken well over two years to decide how to spend a legacy I received from my late father-in-law. I considered putting together a Fixe, flirted with the idea of a mountain-bike, but in the end have up-graded components on two of my favourite bikes and, after getting my senior railcard and therefore increasing my use of trains, I have decided on a folder. I couldn't seem to get a CPT 3, but the one I have put together (with assistance of my LBS), is more personal and I believe I'll be more than happy. As I suspect my father-in-law would have been. Photo to follow when I get my hands on it.

 

[Rocky]

Great choice!! I hope you have many happy miles of travel. Please do post some pictures when it arrives.

 

[Gunk]

Nice to buy a bike with a legacy, my Mother died last year and my stepfather sent us all a small amount of money each, I bought my BMC road bike with it.

 

[Mrs M]

In a complete contrast to my normal impulse buying (especially any time concerned with cycling), I have taken well over two years to decide how to spend a legacy I received from my late father-in-law. I considered putting together a Fixe, flirted with the idea of a mountain-bike, but in the end have up-graded components on two of my favourite bikes and, after getting my senior railcard and therefore increasing my use of trains, I have decided on a folder. I couldn't seem to get a CPT 3, but the one I have put together (with assistance of my LBS), is more personal and I believe I'll be more than happy. As I suspect my father-in-law would have been. Photo to follow when I get my hands on it.

Good use of legacy, hope you enjoy it

 

[sheddy]

Lightweight ? What exactly does this mean ?

 

[Gunk]

Lightweight ? What exactly does this mean ?

It weighs a bit less

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Lightweight ? What exactly does this mean ?

3.9kg

 

[Rocky]

Lightweight ? What exactly does this mean ?

Titanium forks and rear triangle. Looks nice and saves a few grams in weight.

 

[steveindenmark]

I have the Brompton 9 Streets. I took the rack off to save weight. It was a waste of time and made no difference in performance. I have put the rack back on.

I have ridden a lot this month and am hoping to get to 1000km by the end of it. I have lost 2.9kg and the bike goes a lot faster.

I wonder what it would cost to lose 2.9kg off a Brompton. 😁

 

[Pale Rider]

Titanium forks and rear triangle. Looks nice and saves a few grams in weight.

Titanium mudguard stays, don't forget those, and an alloy headset.

Overall weight saving of about a kilo over a standard gas pipe version.

Is this worth having?

Doubt it makes much difference on the road, but I imagine you could feel it when lifting/carrying the folded bike.

 

[Rocky]

I have the Brompton 9 Streets. I took the rack off to save weight. It was a waste of time and made no difference in performance. I have put the rack back on.

I have ridden a lot this month and am hoping to get to 1000km by the end of it. I have lost 2.9kg and the bike goes a lot faster.

I wonder what it would cost to lose 2.9kg off a Brompton. 😁

Well done on the weight loss. I agree about the performance aspects - don’t expect the titanium bike to go faster. The main advantage is that it’ll be lighter to carry around. Brommies can be a tad heavy, particularly for us old decrepit pensioners 😂

Edit: Paley got there before me

 

[steveindenmark]

Well done on the weight loss. I agree about the performance aspects - don’t expect the titanium bike to go faster. The main advantage is that it’ll be lighter to carry around. Brommies can be a tad heavy, particularly for us old decrepit pensioners 😂

Edit: Paley got there before me

You will need to get some Easywheels on it.

 

[rogerzilla]

If you ride in all weathers, the steel rear triangles tend to rust out after 10 years or so. A titanium one avoids this. Of course, you could just squirt Waxoyl down the open tubes!

 

[Jon George]

For the sake of clarity, I am aware that a reduction in my beer belly will be cheaper to obtain, and that there's probably going to be negligible riding difference to a standard bike, but as my father-in-law once flew back to Ipswich to do loop-the-loops in his Harvard above his parent's house on his birthday, rather the triangulation training course he was supposed to be doing, I kind of think he'd approve of the frivolousness of it all.

 

[Pale Rider]

For the sake of clarity, I am aware that a reduction in my beer belly will be cheaper to obtain, and that there's probably going to be negligible riding difference to a standard bike, but as my father-in-law once flew back to Ipswich to do loop-the-loops in his Harvard above his parent's house on his birthday, rather the triangulation training course he was supposed to be doing, I kind of think he'd approve of the frivolousness of it all.

I wondered about the cost of your frivolity.

Seems to me titanium Bromptons are not so much more expensive than they once were.

A decent spec standard steel is about £1,200, and a similar bike with titanium bits is about £1,800.

I was expecting the difference to be greater.

https://www.brompton.com/bikes/bikes-in-stock