Petrelli journey with a Brompton

Yes, they do look almost the same, specially after we had color coated the titanium stem to a matching black color for the Chap3 Brompton. The main difference between them are just the weight now, a total of 306grams between the steel and titanium.   

This was a project dating back in July. A rider came with a rusted Brompton and see if we can help with it. The rust were mainly on the top tube. We knew his preferred color was a shine of olive green, but given the condition of the rusted surface, …

Ever want your Brompton wheels’ hub to match the color of your bike frame? This is exactly what had done here. The hub here was a silver color Sturmey Archer 5 speed internal hub, and now its color coated to the color to match the bike. Loving it.

The Brompton bottom bracket follows the BSA threaded standard, the common shell width on the BB is 68mm.  Owning to the fold-ability design, the BB area had shifted slightly to the non driver (left hand) side. This offset allows the original square taper BB and crank set to work perfectly …

So, the story goes like this. A Brompton rider bought a Token square taper BB and was using it for a while along with the original crank and chainring without any issue; The rider subsequently bought an Absolute Black brand of oval chainring and wanted to use it on the …

What do you do when the threads at the crank arm is spoiled? Here are the quick 3 steps to solve it (as far as the main chainring securing bolt is concern anyway):    

A pair of tensioner system from ACE were being installed on a 6 speed BWR hub’s Brompton earlier today. They were very simple, light weight and nicely budgeted. The installations were very straight forward too.  A routine test was performed after the simple installations and found there was some clicking …

Brompton uses a BSA (English) standard bottom bracket system. On its drive side (crank side) the bottom bracket is left threaded, which means you have to turn clockwise to unscrew the bottom bracket shell. One of the Brompton DIYer might have mistaken the removal method, he twisted the Brompton plastic …

A Brompton rider : “Hay Pete, I was riding the other day and a lorry was passing by, I heard a lot of squeaking sound and was thinking the lorry really needed to fix its brakes. But then, the sound still persist after the lorry was gone. Then I knew …

A rider is having some shifting issues between the gear 3 & 4. After some testing and inspections, we found the tensioner in a whole was “pushed out”. The caused of the shifting issue was a wrong flange bolt was being used to secure the wheel to the bike. The …