5 Years Of Life With Brompton
Review of Brompton L3 Bicycle by
 BNibbles
Advantages: Almost "full sized bike" rideability. Less likely to get stolen if stored indoors instead of in shed!
Disadvantages: Small wheels go down holes further = harder ride. Expensive unless you MUST have a folder.
...to "kick-back" the pedals to a good starting position.
Decent mudguards, a softish saddle (now replaced by a traditional Brooks all-leather job), reflectors (essential to make it street-legal), a pump and a three-speed hub gear are included. It also comes with a folding left pedal, which makes sense of its total fold-ability - I'll come on to that later.
Having done most of my riding on road, I can safely say that I'm heartily sick of "9 gazillion" derailleur gears, and their intransigence to being changed just when you want to most, i.e when caught out by, or when standing at, traffic lights.
A hub gear like the good old Sturmey-Archer is much less fussy, (or the Sachs as now fitted), and only refuses to change if you are pressing hard on the pedals. Whether standing still, freewheeling or pedalling lightly, it just shrugs it all off...
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