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"For the city and beyond" – Brompton Electric G Line rolls in on 20-inch wheels

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Alex Bowden

Alex has been editor of ebiketips since 2021. He previously contributed news, reviews and more to road.cc and has also had a parallel (largely lapsed) career writing about cricket for various publications.

6 comments

1 week 3 days ago

Great to see Bromopton movinbg to slightly bigger wheels and disc brakes while retaining the fold.
It's also great that there's a version with a Shimano 8 speed hub, maybe in future they'll also offer the 11 speed.
I am a little disappointed that you can't have hub gears AND a motor, and that there isn't a belt drive option.

2 weeks 3 days ago

Ooh, interesting. There's also 8 speed non-electric in the range. Would like to see a more basic 2 or 4 speed on 20" wheels too. 

2 weeks 6 days ago

About time too and the 20" wheels mean you'll have a decent choice of tyres at last. I fit some really good tyres on my 20" BMX and there's a wide selection from knobblies for rough roads to high speed road tyres. The 20" wheel will make handling that little bit more predictable too. I've been telling my nephew for ages that Brompton needed a version with a 20" wheel size. And he works in design & development for Brompton.

2 weeks 6 days ago

@mattw 16kg is mislead, unfortunately, as that's the weight without the battery. You need to add 3kg.

2 weeks 6 days ago

those wires are inline with the frame and wheels and less vulnerable than the big looping curves of brake and gear lines on an MTB.

2 weeks 6 days ago

16kg is getting towards where the mass needs to be.

We need one with a titanim frame.

But those wires in mid air look massively vulnerable.