Originally Posted by
Dahon.Steve
I thought the Brompton's design was to use the bike in conjunction with the London Underground system. Afterall, if you weren't going to use it in multimode commuting, then any bicycle would work in commuting.
On a separate issue, the article states Mr. Ritchie continues to smoke at his age. This is a sad comment and I hope he quits.
London has probably several million commuters who travel in from satellite towns. They use overground trains to come in from a radius of up to about a hundred miles, though many make shorter journeys. Then they decant and move around London on the Underground and bus system. The Brompton is uniquely suited to cutting out that second stage of public transport. The Underground is hideously overcrowded, expensive, and potentially lethal when one considers the 7/7 bombings.