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R.I.P., Bernhard.

A great loss! His contributions to this industry – and especially to the vital *practical & utilitarian human-powered vehicles* sector have been truly evolutionary, inspirational, and transformational. The first iteration of the UFB – indeed dating all...

Complete List Of Brompton T-Line Weights

Recently I obtained a pre-owned Brompton T-Line Urban, for the purposes of evaluation and comparison with our my UFB all-titanium take on Andrew Ritchie’s amazing original design [designed, engineered, and produced nearly two-decades ago, now, and iteratively...

New brake bridge geometry done!

Behold the new (raw; unfinished) brake bridge design! [Note: the room lighting was terrible, and so the apparent color of everything — from the deep purple background(!) to the titanium itself — in these photos is completely inaccurate…and there are also random...

Some design & fabrication questions

I have recently been asked some questions in a couple of Brompton FaceBook Groups about some of my specifications & frame design choices…I though others might benefit from the answers, so I decided to turn them into this little post. The first question was...

The Evolution of UFB brakes

Following my move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Portland, the pace of development on the UFB slowed considerably [due to marriage; kids; crazy external events; lack of money, etc.], with sporadic surges; it could best characterized by the phrase the biologist...