Zen & the art of Brompton Maintenance, Part 1

The mighty Charles shows me how to take off the pesky back wheel - and more importantly, put it back on again!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Brompton
• bicycle
• puncture
• repair
• remove
• back
• wheel

[hawkeyegibb]

A lot of people have asked about the tool - it is just a classic ten buck 'dog bone' all purpose bike spanner. In this case it is empircal as its an old Brompton. This and a multipurpose allen key tool covers most of the bases.

[bowed70]

Great video! My rear tire replacement was much easier when following the video rather than reading a Brompton repair manual. I must ask you about that tool. It almost appears to be a perfect tool for that type of repair. Is it a specific bike tool or just a normal metric wrench?

[hawkeyegibb]

A lot of people have asked about the tool - it is just a classic ten buck 'dog bone' all purpose bike spanner. In this case it is empircal as its an old Brompton. This and a multipurpose allen key tool covers most of the bases.

[hawkeyegibb]

Would you like to tell us??

[eric94305]

Hi, great video. Just got two m3L's for wife and I. Could you pls tell me what brand of spanner you are using. Looksk very handy. I'd like to order one. Thanks!

[hawkeyegibb]

Item Description

Traditional Dog Bone Bicycle Multi Spanner RRP £4.95

A double ended steel spanner with a useful selection of sizes ranging from 6mm to 15mm.

Details

95mm length

Spanners in 15/14/13/12/11/10/9/8/7/6 mm

Steel construction

Type 'Dog Bone Spanner' into google....

[ppeters77]

Nice Vid, but instead of taking the brake pad out or loosening the cable I just deflate the tire. It then fits neatly between the brake pads.

Saves you the hassle of adjusting the brake pads/cable tension again....

[jh385]

Thanks! - You made it look so easy compared to the manual. I ended up doing it your way and got the wheel off in a few seconds. Although I did spend the following hour adjusting the rear caliper brakes!.. lol...

[kameraguy]

This video taught me to never have a rear puncture on a Brompton! :)

[Yumscrubble]

Thanks for this. I'd been avoiding this repair, doom-laden after reading the manual, and have been using my full frame bike instead for the past months, getting hassled by train conductors for my troubles...

[coevolving]

Thanks for this video, it made removing the rear wheel of the Brompton easier. I had to figure out the adjuster sleeve on the SRAM/Sachs that is different from that shown in the video, it's a simple button press to release, found a SRAM techdocs.

[garra48]

Es fantastico. Muchas gracias desde España

It´s Fantastic. Thank very much from Spain

[antoniuslupus]

Thanks for the video clip. it was extremely helpful. I could not understand from the manual how to remove and put back the rear wheel till I found your video on it. Once I saw it was Eureka for me! Many thanks.

[gratedcarrot]

Great guide, thanks.

Saved a few quid doing it myself. Much easier than the manual too!

[joelbossen]

thanks a lot!

I have just changed tyre and I managed to do it due to your video.

I've also printed the definitive brompton tire change manual. According to me your video is the definitive help, not those 4 printed pages.

[KarlOnSea]

Why do you take the brake pad out? Surely it's easier to just release undo the brake cable?