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We've spent four years looking for the best bike to have on board Fair Isle. After giving away our old bikes to friends in Turkey because they were too heavy and used up too much space, we found we really missed having bikes aboard. We needed to find a model that folded up small, was light enough to get in the dinghy and to shore and was good quality and nice to ride.
Previously we had always found fold up bikes were not a good ride, they creaked and rattled, felt jittery and quickly fell apart.
We needed to find a quality bike that was good to ride and would last at sea.
To be honest this search shouldn't have taken too long. Being British we have come across Brompton bikes before, we knew people who had them and swore by them. Our neighbour in Eastbourne marina had 3! One for the boat, one for his RV and one for home. However we had never ridden a Brompton and being in the Med and then the Caribbean didn't have them available to try. Until we got to Gibraltar that is.
Gibraltar has a big bike shop next to Ocean Village Marina and it rents bikes for going up the rock, it is also a Brompton dealer. You may have seen in our episode there we tried out several models and knew straight away we had found the bike we needed. The only thing was we weren't sure of which model.
Luckily for us Brompton agreed to let us have some bikes on loan to test out and decide which would suit us best, and hopefully give our viewers an insight into what these bikes can offer. So in this video we go through that testing and give you the results.
It seems the world is catching on to the unique quality of Brompton bikes and they are expanding world wide, that's a very good thing because you should now be able to buy one where ever you are.
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