My copper-plated Brompton finally arrived!

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bikegang

Mod before ride, my bike my style...
Sure. Do you have more photos of that one?
thanks, let me ask his owner for an album link ...

here is another with Nickel
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CopperBrompton

CopperBrompton

Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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Cool. :-) Bizarrely, Brooks pairs the brown leather grips with silver ends and the black ones with copper ends. Fortunately my girlfriend wanted black with silver, so we just swapped the end pieces.
 
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CopperBrompton

CopperBrompton

Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
Location
London
The build was done by Ben Cooper at Kinetics. He out-sources the copper-plating, but I'm not sure they'll want to do another one! The varnishing was apparently far tricker than they'd anticipated – the all-in cost of plating and varnishing was £250 and it took several weeks, so I suspect they lost quite a lot of money on the deal ...
 
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CopperBrompton

CopperBrompton

Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
Location
London
Lovely looking bike but I'm surprised you didn't take the disc brake option, any reason or just aesthetics?
I'm not massively keen on the aesthetics of disk brakes, but mostly I just can't see the point, given that I can lock either wheel with the standard brakes.
 
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