Unusal Early Brompton on ebay
01-27-09, 08:51 AM
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Unusal Early Brompton on ebay
does the kink in the main tube man this is one of the first batch of fifty, or is it even earlier ?
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brompton-small...1%7C240%3A1318
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brompton-small...1%7C240%3A1318
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Yes - I was joking. The give away that it wasn't a crash victim is that the head tube and forks are in perfect alignment with the rest of it. I'm so glad that Mr Ritchie re-designed it or we'd never have heard of the Brompton Bike let alone ever wanted to have one.
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Hmmm! Suddenly jumped to £200+ then was withdrawn from sale, it looks in not very good condition, what is that strange attachment to one of the cranks? BTW?
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=300289545096
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=300289545096
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It looks just like the one tested by John S. Allen and Sheldon Brown in the May, 1984 issue of Bicycling magazine.
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