Brompton has a bit of a cult following. If you have a single, you get it. They’re weird. They’re cool. You can take them anyplace. The super extended head tube and seat post give the bikes their distinct appear and enable them to fold down in beneath 20 seconds to be carried anyplace.
In truth, that is how they had been invented. When Andrew Ritchie moved to London as a young engineer in 1975, he wanted a greater way to get about. Currently, Brompton Bicycle organization is the biggest bicycle manufacturer in the UK.
The “World’s Smallest Bike Shop”
This week the London organization opened the very first of its sort “Micro Junction” shop in Brooklyn. Dubbed the World’s Smallest Bike Shop, the 70 square foot space is on Front Street in DUMBO—one of Brooklyn’s most photographed and most iconic neighborhoods. PR Newswire reports that the “Micro Junction shop provides New York residents and guests a likelihood to envision the new life-style Brompton can offer you by saving riders space and time.”
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Guests are encouraged to take a “selfie test ride” by meandering about the bike paths along the East River and tagging their images with @BromptonUSA and #tryBrompton. Also, if New Yorkers want a tiny additional time to attempt a Brompton in their genuine lives, they can take benefit of a cost-free, two-week trial offer you.
“We’re on a mission to make life in cities additional practical and additional exciting. The Micro Junction idea is a reflection of that objective,” Juliet Scott-Croxford, Brompton President of North America, stated in a press release. “Brompton tends to make daily life with a bike uncomplicated due to the fact you can take our bikes anyplace, avoiding theft and connecting multi-modal journeys.”
New Yorkers can now buy any Brompton to be delivered to their house, or choose a single up at the flagship shop, Brompton Junction, on Bleeker Street in the West Village.
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Micah Ling is a freelance writer who lives in the mountains of Colorado. She splits her cost-free time involving mountain biking and trail operating.
