How to build a Brompton
My love for my little Brompton is well known – especially now it’s got flat bars on. It makes the perfect bike for getting to meetings in Oxford as walking at either end is painfully slow.
Building a Brompton is a labour intensive task. It takes a factory of 115 skilled people, some 1,200 parts and six hours to custom build each individual bicycle.
It’s nice to know that this ingenious bicycle design is still built in the UK just beneath the Hammersmith flyover. This little video and article gives a short insight into their processes. Best to not scroll down to the outrageous comments on the Torygraph though.
