Originally Posted by
mulleady
Both fair and unfair comments there. Yes a nightmare to modify unless you have engineering leve experience or as genius ability mechanically speaking. However Bromptons are reliable and I'd hardly call them 'very low quality components'.
Brompton is reliable indeed. However, if you disassemble it and inspect parts (and weigh them), you'll be surprised that its components are actually inferior to $120 e-mart bike!
If you compare brompton to dahon curve SL component-wise, you'll know what I have meant.