How much clearance between the tyre and the rear frame?
Originally Posted by
mulleady
1) An 8 speed Shimano Alfine hub. I love the silent and smooth shifting of this hub and it can achieve a very nice range with the right chainset. The range on my Brompton is now 28"-101" which is pretty respectable. Pound for pound the Alfine hub is as good as it gets.
Very nice upgrade on the standard gears. Widening the rear-frame usually means that the clearance of the tyres becomes smaller. I thought that Julianna who does the mod to nexus 8 warned that you can't use a schwalbe Marathons anymore because of the 1mm clearance. How much clearance do you have on the rear frame?
Originally Posted by
mulleady
4) I intend to add a Titanium seatpost to complement the raw lacquer more but it also has the small bonus of taking around 1kg off the total weight of the bike.
1 kg of weight savings for just changing the seatpost to titanium would be nice. But I read somewhere in a Brompton catalogue that the bonus is only a 74 grams drop in weight.
Luca
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