Are Brompton set up with UK brake standards?
 

I've always had the front brake on the left lever on my road bikes, so have set up my folders all the same. But recently got some wheels from the UK in a box that said in the UK you are required to set up the right lever for the front brake.

As I am setting up my Moulton that comes with the right lever for the front brakes, I'm wondering if I should switch to UK standards or stick to my old ways.
Just wondering how Bromptons standardly come. Are they UK or do the imports have the front brake on the left?

US Brompton models are shipped to a US standard - front brake on left. I would guess your Moulton slips under some limited volume 'custom' loophole.

I personally switch all my bikes to front brake on right as I'm a motorcyclist. The Brompton was a bit of a pain as you need to rethread the cable.

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I`d say you follow the standard in the country you live and ride unless you have good reasons to do something different. Also I would say that if only you ride your bikes you are more free to follow your own taste than if oter peopel ride your bikes and could get a nasty suprise.

Did some countys decide this by law or just recomandation?

HHMMM, so I wonder if all those Bromptons by UK sellers on Ebay come in with UK setup?

From what I've read, the (bicycle) standard is somewhat based on hand signals and so if you drive on the left side, you use your left hand to signal, and UK the reverse. So being used to using hand signals in the automobile, it passed on to bikes. Of course, hardly anyone uses actual hand signals these days, unless you drive old vehicles without turn signals, so it might be a moot point.

In the UK you use both hands to signal. If you used your right hand to signal a left turn, no one would know what you were intending.

Yeah, I think the one-armed hand signals fell out of fashion around the same time as car semaphores did.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/arti...aSemaphore.jpg