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I'm in the same boat. Did you change the Arkose front TA to an allen key variant? I'm not sure what alternatives there are...

There have been a few residents giving out leaflets in the last few days about the speed limit (5mph) through the common.

I think we're long overdue an awareness campaign on this one. If the various government departments can find money to remind us not to drink and drive, use a seatbelt, even (for different reasons) to pump up our car tyres, they can find money for this. Every week I see somebody getting closer to an HGV than any sane person would if they knew the dangers, if they were on this forum and read threads like this (and tragically there are quite a few threads like this).

Low-budget, short documentary about HGVs, blindspots, cyclists etc...

**Lorries and Towns Don't Mix **

http://showcase.commedia.org.uk/arti...view/390/1/13/

But not ones that have crept up from behind into their blindspot.

Blind**spot **is a misnomer - it's a huge amount of space - a constantly shifting deathzone...

http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2008/...062608_15.html

**A CYCLIST was rushed to hospital yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) with injuries to her legs after colliding with a lorry.
**The woman in her 40s hit a timber lorry in Royal College Street, Camden Town.
Clothes and bicycle parts could be seen strewn across the street behind police cordons. A paramedic team arrived by helicopter and took the cyclist to Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel by ambulance.
A police spokesman said the woman was in a “serious” condition last night.
Kingsley Okolie, 22, a shop assistant at nearby Cash Converters, said: “Her legs were just shattered. I wanted her to lie down but she just sat bolt upright in shock. All of a sudden she just lay down and all her muscles were twitching.”
Mr Okolie looked on as paramedics carried out two resuscitation attempts.
He said since road works started a few months ago he had seen a number of “near misses”.
The works are intended to make the road safer according to Camden Cycling Campaign member, John Chamberlain, who lives in Highgate Road, in Dartmouth Park.
“Obviously we don’t know what happened but these junctions are notorious for these types of accidents where cyclists are proceeding straight on and lorries are turning left,” he said.
“It again illustrates the vulnerability of cyclists particularly to heavy goods vehicles. Our thoughts are with the victim and her family.”

Can I tag along? I am not sure of the entry criteria, but I am big, bald and ugly if that helps my application...

There are some interesting creations on FGG. (I know the 2nd doesnt actually fold, but it could) I love the idea of having something I could throw in a suitcase and use to go explore when I'm out foreign, rare as that is.

That is one of the benefits of a folder. The other is that you can take it into a pub and secrete it under a table...

how does the leg-braking work out for you on that?

Just the same as a diamond frame. What's good though is that is very nimble in traffic.

It was geared 53/13 = 78"

Ah-ha! I think I've seen you on this, or at least someone on a blue trek folder that's been fixed up. On Kennington Road, must have been at least a year ago.

That was me and it was def over a year ago. I'm now on a Charge Plug as the Trek has a crack in the seat tube...

Will be converting a Swift folder when the new steel model finally arrives.

i was actually curious about that.
i reckon i'd put two brakes on it, cos the geometry on those bikes looks like it'll be hard to throw your weight around.

I own this:

Yeah, I spotted that too, nice ! I think it is a 'birdy' ? Never seen a tri-spoke on one though ?

Yep, it's a Birdy Blue, but that's not a tri-spoke front wheel - it's the front suspension fork!

SküllheadWilderness Seriously though why not just have QR thingy that allows them be to locked open?! And lose the rubber bushing. I don't get that.

You can now get a QR locking mechanism as standard on Bromptons that stops the rear triangle from folding under when you grab 3ft of air...

hippy Doesn't it mess with the chain tension when you hit a bump and the thing compresses?

It's not my bike, but you will see it has (God forbid) a chain tensioner in order for it to fold. The green elastomer is also the stiffest and it compresses very little anyway.

hippy Is that an elastomer thingie or has the 'suspension' been removed? I hope so!

It's a rear elastomer from a R&M Birdy - it stiffens the ride enormously...

31trum looks like a ti seatpost, rear triangle and forks too

Correct - but you missed the Ti rails on the Brooks and various Ti nuts and bolts....!

Pj's infernal invocations have given us this: a fixed wheel Merc/Brompton mutant with Phil Wood hubs, Brooks saddle, Velocity rims and Campag cranks...

Another Fixed Folder:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=116282387&size=o