Clever Cycles has an extremely fun Brompton Design Studio, so of course I had to make the purplest Brompton that ever purpled. Every possible purple option was chosen (my kingdom for purple chainrings and crank arms). I spared no expense and made it a Titanium 12-speed, so your purple only weighs 19 pounds and can be transported everywhere.
Total price: $12,446
https://clevercycles.com/collections/custom-brompton-design-studio
Best comment on a YouTube review of Brooks bicycle saddles:
"I bought a Brooks on the recommendation of my octogenarian neighbour who used to ride 200 mile days in the 1950s. It was pretty uncomfortable to start but thankfully after 6 months of perseverance I permanently lost all feeling in my nether regions and any chance of fertility and now swear by the brand."
I did it! I rode my bike for the first time in 30 days! I used lots of assist and just went a short distance. I’m glad I did it and I’m also glad I kept it short because it definitely felt more effortful than usual — but it’s a new start on this road to recovery that I’m traveling.
@SarahFrumento Looking at Lady Amalthea's purple loveliness, reminds me that I was going to post how last night I discovered that Clever Cycles has a Brompton Design Studio where you can build a bike - for real, they'll build what you make if you process the result as an order request.
So I went in there and decided to try and make the lightest, most purple bike I could. I chose a Titanium frame, and every section or component that could be selected that had color options, I chose, and then chose purple! 😅
The end result was a very lovely, very purple, Brompton T Line, that cost:
A little over 13k. :blobcatrainbow:
https://clevercycles.com/collections/custom-brompton-design-studio
It’s vitamin B12 tonight — Bike Ride No. 12 on Bea the Brompton (I love night rides 🌕). I’m still madly in love. I didn’t intend to keep track of every ride, I just happen to be using a great analog system that works really well for me (Traveler’s Notebook!), and marking that stuff down is easy, so it’s becoming fun to track.
For many months I’d been saving for a Rivendell, and this is the “Rivendell World Champion Stripe Sticker” on the website. It was $2 and I ordered it ages ago, as a fun little motivational reminder of how much I wanted my Riv. And then I got….a Brompton! So I put the sticker on Bea as a little joke to myself. And a reminder that all dreams that nourish us are good, and it’s okay to exchange one dream for another if the new dream works better.
