“It’s after 12:00 o’clock…” gave me a good chuckle :-)

I'm so glad the trip went well, David! Also, I must say that this kind of editing and down-to-earth attitude is a breath of fresh air on KZfaq. Have a great weekend! Greetings from Lisbon :)

Absolutely Brilliant. Looks like a fabulous trip! As an avid amateur photographer myself (going on 50 years now), and a recent Bromptonian, I thoroughly enjoyed your video and photos. I live on the west coast of the US, so I always fly in to Paris. There is so much to discover in Paris, and I've only branched out from there to Normandy so far (at least in France - I've been to London and Holland as well). Bordeaux is certainly on my list for my future visits to France. Thank you for bringing us along! Speaking of people who ask about the Brompton: It started for me with the FedEx delivery man when he delivered the box! He had heard of Brompton bikes and had to ask about it! So the questions started even before I had unwrapped mine (a 6-speed C-line, with the lovely black lacquer). I've taken mine to the grocery store and the barber shop, and along the Los Angeles River bike path, and I am loving it. It's a bloody brilliant bit of applied engineering. And please don't feel obligated to post a video every week. But do document your travels, if you would - your style is refreshing and inspirational. Cheers, thanks again.

I need to tell you the same. I have my P- Line now for 3 weeks and the Fizik saddle lasted just one day. Like you said - it is torture. So I replaced it. Go to a good bike dealer and measure your bottom. Then try out a fitting saddle. It will transform you rides by miles. Another hint: Unscrew your inner valve of the tyre. Put some STANS fluid rubber as tyre sealant in and you will never have to bother with changing wheels or tubes. Thank you for you videos. Greetings from Berlin, Germany.

Good to hear your stories about beginning your Brompton cycling lifestyle. I have been a cyclist for about 35 years, and just this month decided to do some leisurely “adventure cycling”. I appreciate the stories.

What a lovely channel you've got here, David! Your approach to KZfaq is like a draught of fresh air, so don't change. You've got more than what it takes to get people hooked. All the best!

Delighted to hear your trip went well. As for mechanics, all you really need to know is enough to get you to the next bike shop, bus stop or train station and most of the time that is just about being able fix a flat by putting in a new tube. Even in a pinch you could just call a taxi. I’d suggest you carry the Brompton toolkit, a spare tube and a couple of zip ties. Practice taking off and putting on the wheels a couple of times at home, so you’ll be comfortable if you have to do it. And I’d say you will be well covered for the type of cycling you do. As for content, well most of us that cycle tour and explore are interested in documenting our trips, so don’t sell yourself short on the photography side… there is stuff you can pass on at least to me! I was never interested in photography, but now in retirement I realize there are not 50 summers left and I want some thing to look back on when I can no longer get out there. Take care, now go have another adventure.

Here I am, and ex-pom, approaching my 75th and considering which bicycle I might buy for much the same reasons as you. Primarily to assist with my photography, to cover more ground than I might on foot and to, maybe, get a little fitter. Your channel has been a delightful find. I live in a semi-rural small town on the south coast of NSW Australia, sandwiched happily between the Pacific and the southern section of the Blue Mountain range. It's mighty hilly hereabouts so my choice will be electric. I've done a 30 km loop on an electric hire bike and didn't expire so I'm good to go. I was just experiencing a little uncertainty in my plans but your videos have boosted my resolve. Thanks. I think our American cousins love their Bromptons so more of them will turn up when word gets around. I'm sure you'll find plenty to discuss with us going forward. I for one would like to see and know more about your photography, your photos and videos are terrific. Thanks for posting, most enjoyable, Trevor.

I subscribed after you said the Brompton is an extension of your camera. Bingo!

we are Brompton owners, always good at Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille, Rome, Lipari Sicily, Siracusa, Salzburg Austria, Munich, ... Always by train or ferry. Never go without our Brompton. Now in summer i have mine in the front oft my packraft, when we visit Salzkammergut.

Thanks David I loved your Brompton story can't wait to see more watching in Ireland

Absolutely beautiful … and I love the music. Thank you for sharing with us.

I totally understand the concept of using it as a means to access more photographic opportunities. Good luck, and please keep posting.

I love this!!! Huge props to you for getting out and travelling on your Brompton. I truly understand how incredibly liberating and life affirming it is. 🎉🎉🎉

Hi David, Great video…I changed the same Brompton seat as yours to a beautiful black leather traditional Brooks saddle…it takes a few rides to bed in but once that happens it’s very comfortable and of course is British made like the Brompton and easy to fit! 😀 Best wishes

Hello, thanks for your videos, I have watched all of them ! Love how you communicate your passion for this bike

David, I enjoyed this video. Yes, the Brompton is a fantastic bicycle. I've taken mine on a few foreign trips with mine, Europe, Iceland and the Faroes. Not bike packing, but personal transport, dotting around towns, excursions into the countryside. Perfect as you say for covering and recovering ground on photographic trips. Enjoy your journeys!

Heinz Stücke was very happy with his Brompton. Greetings from Germany.

Lovely channel…I was in Bordeaux two times because my sister in law was living near there. Wonderful and quiet city, excellent to ride. Thanks for your video. Best regards from Madrid

what a lovely trip, perfect for the Brompton. thanks for making the video

just keep riding and sharing the joy ":-)

The Brompton is so useful for multi mode traveller,,Love how its enhanced your photography hobby. Happy snapping, Happy pedaling.

Your videos are the best thing on KZfaq! Your subtle humor is great, and seeing that you don’t want to change anything on your bike and not being able to get very comfortable on the saddle lets me know I’m not the only one who feels that way. Also thanks for the maps. Americans are quite poor at geography. Can’t wait for the next video!

This video must be also a part of the "Campaing Against Superficial Video". I love the pace, the time to talk about the issues and the candid comments. All the best David.

Hey David. I love your channel. I have been a cyclist for a while, and had some international trips on my belt, so I find delightful to see you discovering the joys of cycling. I have just bought a Brompton C-Type, 6 speeds and I am waiting it to arrive. So, I hope you keep posting here. If you ever come to Lisbon, I would love go for a ride with you, on my new Bompton, of course

Your a likable Chap! I loved all of it. Great way to pull a story together. I agree about keeping your Brompton as is. I have a C Line and while there are some things I don't like, overall its good and will not change it (oops, except pedals). I'm saving my pennies for a P Line. I also fretted over a bus ride here in Honolulu with my Brompton and a large Borough Bag. I will admit I chose the wrong seat location on the bus and had trouble disembarking but all in all it was OK. My advice for all mass transit travelers with a Brompton is to sit near and exit door if possible! I bought my Brompton for travelling and have used it for that but lo and behold I end up riding it 3 days a week to work and on fun rides around town. Its my primary bike now. So, keep up the good stories and Apre-Ride lifestyle. Aloha From Hawaii.

About the future of your channel….. you said it yourself! It’s all about the Brompton being an extension of your camera. We (that’s me) enjoy very much your wonderful photography accompanied by lovely music together with your persona. I live I Sweden (yeah, it’s still rather cold) and ride road bikes. I’d really like to get me a Brompton some day. They seem very charming. Keep up the great work that we enjoy so much. Cheers Peter

Loved the video and it has got me thinking laterally - I've always flown with my Brompton for trips abroad since 2003, as far away as NZ, but Europe by train is the way forward. And I really like the style you've chosen to make this in, too! Thanks for sharing David.

Lovely, thank you

Lovely post; thanks, David. Very interesting and educational. Keep it up.

Love the chanel, glad you are enjoying the glorious machine so much!

Beautifully done, David! Fine music, photographs, video editing and - of course - all woven together seamlessly by your delightful sense of humour! :-)

Thanks for the videos David. I have just watched all of them and have subscribed. I think I might buy a Brompton soon 😊. Looking forward to your next adventure.

Great love my Brompton to 😊 I can thoroughly recommend Brooks saddles on Bromptons excellent.. like your narrative style very easy watching ❤❤👍👍🚴🏻

Thanks. Sorry to hear about the saddle. Love my Brompton too, an extension of me in London

Such a wonderful video to hear you share your thoughts

Nice video 👍

My wife and I bike packed from Azerbaijan to Cyprus on our Bromptons. We crossed the Caucuses and rode on unmade roads and they coped brilliantly. Only downside was that we had them stolen from our house when we returned to the UK.

David, what a lovely review, I’ve been contemplating a Brompton as there are wonderful islands and sights to see here in Georgia USA just north of the Florida line. I’d also love to tour India for a few months. I’m just going to have to cough up the price, I think I’d be out and about much more with my camera as well. Thoroughly enjoyed it and must admit to a laugh or two. Great job, thank you.

Just today I found your Brampton channel. Long time I enjoyed your photochannel and also longing for new videos. Because I think you have done amazingly good work there. But nothing has appeared there for long time and I was wondering what happened with you. Now I understand there has Bern cancer and off cause that you had a problem to make new videos in either channels. Any way I hope you now doing well. Take care! Göran in Latvia

Liked and subbed . Terrific, I own a Brompton 👍

Very beautiful place you have came sir

Hello David, Great to see and hear the trip to Bordeaux was a success... I would just make the videos about you, your Brompton and camera and the audience will just find you (as they are). I look forward to watching your next adventure. Take care. Paul,,

I glad that your trip was a success, your channel is refreshing to view, down to earth and honest. I live in the Barossa Valley in Australia, its a major wine region of Australia and would be perfect for your Brompton, if you venture overseas it will be interesting to see where you and your brompton go to, i enjoyed your photography was very nice. Cheers from Australia

Luv the pace of the video,the photography and the musings. I don't want showboating or quick tours. I want reflection,cogitation and rumination. Listen,see,ruminate. No fast foods. Ta

Carry on with the cycling and photography. A comfy saddle and cycling shorts under my trousers is a must for me ( Cant do the lycra thing in public myself lol.) Its great that youve done the trip. I would have got lost on the train station and trying to find what train to get on, plus i need my bike to be an ebike. More adventures please.

I so much enjoyed watching your adventures in Bordeaux, David. I'm a 72 year-old who spent 38 years commuting to work on a bicycle. I am now thinking of getting an electric Brompton P Line for summer adventures. I live in an area where there are hills so I am wondering if it will have enough power to get me up modest hills.

What a delightful and lovely Brompton KZfaq channel! I've just discovered it and immediately subscribed. I love your utterly laid back, pretending to be an amateur, but actually very professional approach to making KZfaq videos! As a seasoned Bromptonite, I shall be following your adventures with interest. But oh oh oh my dear, I nearly had a heart attack when I saw your Brompton on the luggage rack of the TGV!! If that TGV had to violently brake or had an accident, that bike could do some very serious damage to someone it happens to fall on. You need to know that the Brompton is designed to be such a compact fold that it can easily fit in the space between two opposite facing seats (see for example 0:14) . And it's a breeze to slide in there and to slide out. I've never yet tried this on a TGV but it works with almost every other train I've used so why not there too?

Well done Sir

If you choose to replace the saddle, and I recommend you do, look at a Brooks B17. You must apply the leather conditioning cream a few times until the leather softens up, but when you do you will be able to ride your Brompton quite literally all day without the slightest discomfort. Brooks saddles, though a bit expensive, heavy and needing care, are a must. The B67 is even better, but even heavier and costlier.

I can definitely agree on the saddle. I've got a Brooks on order to replace the Fizik.

I have no intention of adding stuff to my bike either, “regalia” indeed! Ha. I use it as an extension of my binoculars and my camera. I would continue to return to your channel for more of the same, ie videos of your Brompton in all its unaltered glory, photos of where you travel, and most especially your commentary, so keep it up please. I find your dialogue engaging and you make me laugh. I can relate to some of your struggles and also to your enjoyment of the Brompton, alors voila! Have a great day! Greetings from Texas!

I have added The VSEAT to my two wheel ebike and my carbon fiber fat bike…..over 500 miles and no……let me repeat no pain…..just an idea……liked your video from Wisconsin….love train travel….too bad the US has missed that opportunity.

Worried about what else (09:12), you could consider revisiting these places during different seasons and weather.

Wonderful viewing

Aside from bags, the only things I have added to my Brompton are better safety lights. I like many of the Lezyne lights but also have two yellow side lights from Blackburn. This is all for daytime riding I should add. Roads in the USA aren’t always as bicycle friendly as they could be so I try to be as visible to drivers as possible.

Hi David, let me please encourage you to carry on with your channel, and if you are serious about going to other contries drop me a line. I will be happy to take you to a memorable Brompton tour to and in Hamburg. I like your attitude to your little machine, a wonderful piece of engineering and a door to a new world. I also like your idea of the Brompton being the extension to something. I am just in the process of selling all my race bikes, cross bikes etc, but I will keep my Brompton even though I don't need it either. I do not commute, however owning it has triggered something in me. And last but not least, I like your approach of keeping things simple, because that - I am sure - will keep you happy!

Even though the Brompton marathon tyres are pretty puncture resistant I’d recommend keeping some inner tubes and a multi tool in your bag and practice taking both wheels off to replace inner tube in case of a puncture

A nice saddle is the Selle SMP TRK which works well on my road bike...might be worth a try.

Thank you for creating this video, Bordeaux looks very nice! I’ll see what else you have on your channel. I’ve had the opportunity to trial a Brompton P line urban, courtesy of my work place. I’ve had it for about a week now, when it was delivered and took it for a mini ride around the staff car park, instantly I hated the saddle. Waiting for a more comfortable saddle to be sent to me, it’s awful! I am otherwise impressed with the Brompton P line Urban, though still getting used to it. It’s so light, so I do find it to be very “twitchy”. I am also an occasional bike rider, who is returning to bikes after a hiatus of over two years, so generally still a lot to learn! Though heavier, I think the c-line would probably suit me better, colors, gears and price range. 😊

Well… If you’re not going to take it apart, I for one would definitely like to see more photos and where they were taken.

I was a bit concerned about you putting the B above your head, if the train did an emergency stop, it could kill someone!? Good video.

Beautifully done David. Instant subscriber. Although I’m not a fan of the overpriced Brompton and can’t get passed those 20” wheels I’ll still be looking forward to your videos.

With regards to your saddle woes... how'd you feel about cycling shorts or bibs?

Bravo David, was it that easy to put the Brompton on the luggage shelf, Also did you lock it and leave it anywhere ?

Ditti the comments below. I liked the still photographs!

For bike saddles try using a brooks. Try the cambium saddles.

Unfortunately, most intercity trains in the UK have very limited space for luggage in each carriage and the over-head storage space is barely large enough to fit a backpack never mind a Brompton bike.

Change the saddle for a Brooks leather saddle!

Is the P line worth paying the extra for over the regular model? I've been wrestling with that question for months. I fear I may never buy a Brompton, because of it.

Going up hill first gear ⚙️ is bloody s*** anyway great video

Come back of somebody will steal your camera :-)