Some folks have toured with a Brompton. With the big front bag and a seatpost bag like the Carradice SQR system could probably do pretty serious touring. Handling doesn't seem to change much with the bag up front. Sketchy either way. Can't see doing 500 miles on it.
Happen to own a Brompton and taken it on airplanes about half dozen times. No issues personally. For tooling around it's fine. Done up to 40 miles at a time. But in a group ride, like I did with the SoCal Riv Riders, it is less than optimal. Definitely worked harder than on a "normal" bike. It is an easy setup, though. Takes about 15 to 20 second after pulling out of the bag to be able to ride. But if money were no object, a S&S coupled bike would be great. Just don't travel enough to justify it. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sep 15, 10:51 pm, eflayer <eddie.fla...@att.net> wrote: > I own a coupled Rambouillet. I bought it used with the couplers > already installed. I love the bike for general riding and just > completed my second 500 mile unloaded tour with the Rambouillet. > Patience required to pack, build up, dismantle, ship. But what a way > to go! Not sure about a Brompton on a "real" bike tour. > > On Sep 15, 7:57 pm, Allan in Portland <allan_f...@aracnet.com> wrote: > > > > > Piaw Nu has some pretty strong opinions against > > them:http://piaw.blogspot.com/search?q=S%26S+couplers > > > I've not owned a couplered bike myself, but I am sympathetic to Piaw's > > argument, which at its most essential is 'couplers are not cost- > > efficient.' > > > If you want travel friendly get a Brompton. It's not much more than > > the up-charge for couplers and an order of magnitude more convenient.- Hide > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
