Petrelli Journey with a Brompton

Messy cable arrangements. Someone came in today and was trying to get some help on the shifting. He described the problem as “I just can’t shift between gear 3 to 4 and 5 to 6”. Usually when you find yourself in the situation of not being able to shift very …

The front hub is completely replaced with a new seal bearing hub.All the spokes were cut to the length and prepped with the alloy nipples for the building.Striping down to extract the internal hub for rebuilding. A Brompton rider came in with his pre-2013 M6R and asked if he could …

Having been built up the wheels the other day, I am going to installing the wheel to the Brompton and see how it turns out. The SA X-RF8(W) aren’t a small hub, the cog that was supplied with the hub was a 20T. Judging from the size of the hub, …

All the spokes and nipples are prepared for the wheel building. What else is better to do in a rainy afternoon then building a 8 speed rear wheel base on the Sturmey Archer X-RF8(W) rear hub? So this is a very special request from a Brompton rider, he was asking …

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 …