this is possibly one of the greatest threads in the history of online forums, let alone bikeforums, let alone the folding section of bikeforums. Where else do you get Toronto and Pnom Penh in one day. I love cities, I love folders. Thanks so much the both of you, what great pootles.

Hi Gringo Gus,

THIS is why I love foldies - they help us explore all these exotic places so effortlessly. Now you got me going, here's more pics about Phnom Penh. It is truly 3rd world in many sense eg poor roads, corruption, guns still available, might is right etc but it is certainly an experience that is a must-do. The people are exceptionally warm and friendly too. I hope you guys can pop in one day, foldies in tow, of course.


The Royal Palace and Royal Museum


Tuol Sleung S21 - Khmer Rouge Torture Centre - a grim reminder of Cambodia's dark past


Phnom Penh Monument - inspired by the ruins of Angkor Wat


Bopha, one of many orphans. HIV is rampant. Taking donations for a new foldie for her


Not quite fried spiders but fried bugs. Crickets I think. My Cambodian friends say they are delicious. I dare not try, yet.


Speaking of Angkor Wat, I did a race there 2 years back on a Brompton. It was unforgettable!

https://www.foldsoc.co.uk/Mike/villagefocus.pdf

I better STOP here! Delighted to answer any questions you may have... if I can.

I second the sentiment!! Great thread and great submissions!

Now, I've got to get my @ss out there and Pootle some...

Very cool thread, enjoy the pictures.

One more pic that I think is a classic - Phnom Penh. Forgive my indulgence

That guy would fit right in on Bike Forums!!!

Dont keep us in suspense, did he marry the girl or take off on the bike?

snafu is your bike a boardwalk, and is it any good?, ive seen 1 on ebay

truena, was it hard to install those disk breaks on that strider and also put a rack on it?, also is the strida durable and any good and would u recomend the mark 1 or 2? and last question is it comfortable?

ohh thanks now i know what that bike is, someone told me it was a boardwalk , also wat model is it, 2006, 2007, 2004 etc?

Dont know... I was busy trying to get my Brommie back. But it wd make a wonderful wedding present ya?

I have a Pootle question -

If you Pootle and have no pictures, it is still a Pootle?

I did a quintessential Pootle ride on my Merc today. Slow, lingering ride through pretty neighborhoods and towns. Did not knowingly exceed 12mph . But alas, my wife has our camera with her on her trip to Europe. So no pics .

So, did I Pootle today?

Nope!! You're like the falling tree in the forest with no one around to hear...

No pictures? It didn't happen!
Can you draw what you saw maybe?

You guys are FUNNY!

This is the best thread ever in the history of Bike Forums!!!!

I was reading Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on a Bumme published 1900.

A bummel, what's a bummel I hear you ask, perhaps fearing more butt-buddy humor...

"A 'Bummel'," I explained, "I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started. Sometimes it is through busy streets, and sometimes through the fields and lanes; sometimes we can be spared for a few hours, and sometimes for a few days. But long or short, but here or there, our thoughts are ever on the running of the sand. We nod and smile to many as we pass; with some we stop and talk awhile; and with a few we walk a little way. We have been much interested, and often a little tired. But on the whole we have had a pleasant time, and are sorry when it's over."

A cycle journey, that is. So a bummel is a pootle, no less?

I have noticed that most of these 'Poots' are through exotic and interesting terrain. In contrast I thought I would take you on, what is, my monthly Streatham>Waterloo commute; a 'Com-mootal.

Here is 'One Man on a Brommie!'

Brom waiting and eager to kick off in Streatham



Backstreet Streatham. Property DNA? Mutant Houses! How does it work? I'll tell you.

If a burglar breaks in, the building takes a DNA sample, analyses it and then using a heuristic algorithm talks to the intruder, "I can't let you do that, Dave!" and proceeds to starve the room of oxygen whilst singing "Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do!"



Brom waits to cross the 'Sarf Circular'; part of the ring of pollution encompassing London.



Brom likes pubs. He takes me to many but we resist the Windmill on Clapham Common.



The cycle lane through the common.



A cycle-lane, of sorts on a sensitive bridge.



Can you guess what this is? The Thunderbird II launch pad, a ski jump or solar panels to power a train station?



I'm not at liberty to tell you what goes on in this building; hush, hush, official secrets act and all that.



Woman on a racer; lovely calfs - Embankment, Lambeth. I whizz past her, because I can.



The corridors of corruption. The clock at the end is Saint Stephen's Tower which contains Big Ben, a bell.
Spiney Norman is still looking for Dinsdale.

nice brommie i wish i could afford 1 , that building has a ramp!, rawr hedgehog!

woah nice journey! i wish my bike journeys would be that interesting!, your brompton fits very snug under that seat. if you cross a elephant with a giraffe and a pyramid you get a elephant on stilts balancing a pyramid on its back! genius

Yes indeed! I cannot recommend a Brommie enough - It's like riding ART! If Michelangelo were alive, what would he pootle about on?

Sonic!

I can recommend a Brommie bigtime!

Thanks for the London tour Nigel. Some very nice bits that you DONT get to see as a tourist You sure do eat healthy compared to what I had on my recent trip to Sumatra.



"Will that be with comb, or no comb, Sir?" Pic - C Wee

Fellow Brompton owner too...

Is 'eye of newt' in there. That meal has to be for some voodoo ritual.

Nigel is a voodoo expert

He practices on pedestrians lol

So Nigel, you commute from an expensive pad in London to a low paid job in Southampton? Surely you have that backwards! SouthWest allows folders at all times, and even those stopping trains have space for full size bikes too. I reckon they might be the best of the train companies for this. Next time I don't get on the fast train, I'll try my Mini under those seats....

I didn't measure the space under the seat but to the top of the Brom saddle is 66cm and the height is about 32cm.

I actually eek a living in the 'Smoke' and it's a commute in that I do it regularly.
As for an expensive pad in London, you obviously don't know Streatham.