Tried a couple of Bromptons today with a couple of impressions, FWIW:
-- As expected, really nice engineering and foldable design - really well done.
-- For my purposes, I could easily be very happy with either a fixed, 2, or 3 speed; 6 is just more than I need for what I plan to do with it.
-- Seemed like this thing had a lot of wheel flop, in that (at least at low speed) it oversteered quite a lot - e.g., small steering effort would cause this thing to fall right into a turn requiring a kind of twitchy correction. I don't know what the trail is on these things, but it sure seemed like a lot. I don't know - you look at it and it looks like it has almost no trail....I could get used to it, but it was a bit of a surprise.
Still for a short commute, it could be the way to go.
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Last edited by OtayBW; 05-17-2015 at 04:55 PM.
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