Originally Posted by Jipe

I have several small wheels bike (and also large wheel ones).

The Brompton is Ok on good to average roads.

But on very bad roads, cobbles or off road, its really uncomfortable and you must slow down what isn't the case with the Birdy.

Now, a full size ETRTO622 wheels road race bike with high pressure 23 to 28mm road tires (like he Change is also uncomfortable on cobbles.

Honestly, I do not understand how competitors manage to ride so fast on the terrible cobbles of "De Ronde" or Paris-Roubaix for instance ?

For bike availability, as a registered Brompton owner, I received several mails of Brompton about their new online webshop available almost everywhere in the UE and I saw that there are a lot of bikes in stock immediately available for direct shipment to the customer of click&collect at any official Brompton dealer.