A to B 88 – Feb 2012 – Nano Brompton 2.0

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A to B 88
In the 88th issue:

  • The Trial: Nano-Brompton 2.0
  • Pivot’s Corner: Refining Petrol
  • Book Review: Quest for Speed
  • Tested: Pletscher Twin-leg Propstand
  • Brompton Innovation: Improving the Hinge
  • Technology: Hand Warmers
  • Travel: Germany

Welcome to the 88th A to B – or 111th if we include the 23 ‘Folder’ magazines that came before it.We’re not far off our 20th anniversary now, which feels a little odd, because we still think we’re the upstart newcomer.Yesterday a rep from an electric bicycle company asked how long we’d been in business. I replied to the effect that we’d been doing the same thing for nearly 20 years. He said, ‘Perhaps it’s time you changed!’ It turned out he’d been in his job for three months, his company had been around for a year, and it was re-selling the same over-priced generic rubbish available from a dozen other distributors of Chinese electric bikes.We don’t have all the answers, but after 20 years we know a little about folding and electric bikes, and certainly more than some of the company reps! Will we be doing the same thing in 2032? Possibly. But we suspect not on paper – see page 7.

DAVID HENSHAW

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