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Another tweak : deore 11-51 11s with 11s grx shifter and grx 12s 1x rear derailler. Work fine

Ayup Jules. That's an expensive upgrade (in my opinion) but then I find the six gears on my C Line Explore more than enough to cope with everything this local patch of Leicestershire has to offer. Other than the steepest of ups or downs I rarely use either end of the range sticking between what passes for 2nd and 5th. Is this purchase simply to satisfy a craving for the next new thing? Do you really need those 12 gears?? Am I asking too many daft questions??? Christ... I sound like my dad! Cheers👍🏼

Fuggedaboutit - go for the G, that extra 4" will make all the difference, and the tyres look to be wider than tram tracks.

Bro very messy expensive divorce hilarious i laughed out loud because i have had nightmares flats throughout my life. Some in the middle of nowhere some in good areas. All had me messed up bad. Looking back is always funny. But the way your talking as great funny clever amd i love it man. I have tannis for my 700x38c ebike. Its slow goes 20 mph and i just wonder if ill be safe riding

According to *2bikes4adventure* , who's technical expertise is very reliable, the 12-speed has only two gears outside of that range currently offered by the 6-speed. So, its just one added that is very low, and another that is very high. Moreover, it seems the high one is so high it will hardly be used. The low one is more useful, and will be welcomed by many folks trying to get their Brompton up the steeper hills. So, as a six-speed owner, you have to ask yourself, is £435 really WORTH IT for just one extra useful gear ratio, even if, being fair, that ratio is the one you have always felt you needed?

I'd tell them to stick it

Tesla did that with fugly cyber truck thing - the books opened at the launch party at $40,00 but by the time Musky got around to delivering them they'd gone up to $61,000. Given $60,000 to buy a Tesla cyber thing or a Brompton plus change, I'd take the Brompton, even with the extra increase 12 speed jobbie. Here Julian, what's going on? Crashing your mountain bike, now you've been tangling with tram tracks and come a cropper... Is your stunt double on holiday or something?

..it's also called the Maltesers Effect. A box of oh so suckable Maltesers was £4.00 today, They'll be more expensive next week, but won't be any bigger at £5.50 a box. 💩

Legend Mate absoloutly love it.

Hi, which tablet/ipad are you using. does it have an HDMI port to link to a big TV.....?

"Carrying around a bag of shit" 😂😂😂😂 hilarious!

I have an A line fitted with a 3 speed hub gear and a 5 speed P Line with derailleur gears and ,for me, the derailleur setup is far smoother and easy to pedal than the Sturmey Archer hub, which is outdated 20th Century technology that has probably been pressed into service because it is virtually unbreakable, but the downside is that it's rather sluggish and hard work to pedal. Why would anyone who buys a bike primarily for its foldability and manoeuvrability need more than 5 gears, anyway?

Thank you for this sane, well presented analysis; unlike so many such articles in TH-cam it is delivered by somebody with a secure grasp of the English language's grammar and acceptable usage. I wish to slightly differ with the opinion - at about 7:50 for about 20 seconds - that being slightly slower on the hills, because of weight and gearing, isn't really a bother. I'm about 20 years older than the author and live in hilly Hampshire. Finding a 1x bike with a wide enough range of gear-inches to avoid having to walk up some of my local inclines or to able to keep up with kids on their mountain bikes while on the flat is proving to be quite a challenge - especially if I add my preference for steel in to the prescription. After months of search of daily search I haven't found anyhting more suitable than the carbon Orro Terra C that I already have. A Reynolds steel 2x with an 11-45 cassette and 48/36 chain rings are about as common as rocking horse manure (which, fortunately, is also rare on our anti-cyclist bridleways). Finally I would appreciate a comment about the stack:reach ratio on the Secan: for orthopaedic reason I have to adopt the most upright posture I can get on a reasonably quick bike. The side-on images of the Secan appear to show a fairly aggressive saddle height to stem height comparison. How racy is it in practice?

Thanks for your video. Very helpful. By the way, I see you have also installed Brooks Rubber grips. How long are they. Did you need to move gear or brake shifter in order to install them. I'm asking because I think they are a bit longer than the original brompton ones. Thanks again for your valuable help.

Well that's of no use as a review!

Comedy gold 😂 Not sure what anyone else outside of the UK would think of this . Think I’ll go for the cheaper Topeak version

Made by your favorite daughter? hope you only have one!

Looking forward to the roller skating 😊

I had prostate cancer and chose not to have surgery, but 20 sessions of radiotherapy. Shortly after I started bleeding and when my iron levels dropped very low they announced that they'd burned my bowel with overspray. 8 sessions of inserting a cream in surgery didn't cure it, after 2 years I had two sessions of radio ablation. That's basically sticking a soldering iron up your rectum and sealing the abrasions. But, they can only do this in the insensitive areas above the pectinate line. So, I continue to bleed slightly and continue to wish I'd had surgery. :-)

Hi Julian, I'm 63 and looking back a few years towards yourself I laughed quite a few times at your brilliant humour and agree with all of it, especially "how to save battery life" 🤣 I subscribed on that line alone. I have the Element Bolt 2 and I have absolutely no complaints with it at all. I did think at one point it was faulty when it wouldn't connect and show my BPM from my old Tickr, but after ordering a new Trackr Heart Rate, it connecting perfectly and the old one getting binned, I have had no issues what so ever apart from my age and heart failure finding it more difficult to learn all of the crazy things that it can do, but showing me what gear I'm in, well that's unbelievable. Julian, excellent stuff and much appreciated 👍

Love your sense of humour- keep it up…

Strava should do these, auto kudos for people I follow sounds good

I messed mine up taking the mudguards off and had to learn the hard way what this was. I think the whole bike is over complicated. Great design but they really should have sorted it by now. Needed two new parts after removing the guards or it wouldn't work. Also the Allen bolt for the rear suspension block fell out when riding in Norfolk making the bike useless. Had to wait while a replacement was sent. It took two weeks. Now I've got loads of loctite on the new one. I'd definitely check that now and again.

i'm pleased this has happened to some else, i thought it was just me - useful video, thank you.

Fantastic Video, thank you. And hope your bruse is all better now.

I live near mountains and absolutely love my high end Trek full-suspension e-MTB for long rides on gravel roads and a nearby rails-to-trail bike path… but it’s embarrassingly bulky to take on the local commuter train. I just complimented it with a Brompton P line for in town. They’re completely different tools for different needs… so opposite in design philosophies and yet each is so amazing!

lol! Bloody kudos was the reason I dropped Strava! Kudos to Fred , for walking to the off licence 🥱. Ride with GPS. Is free and gives excellent ride analysis!

lol! Can’t beat a bit of free bog kudos!

Is there a pimp my hill function, where a rider can go up a modest rise in the road but on Strava have it come up as being 35% or something?

But will it make me faster?

I now want an MTB

Good excuse for a steel blue bike ?

I doubt the name gravel bike originated in England XD. You can do Bike touring over many days without having to sleep in the wilds.

Legend 😂👍

says the person wearing rapha. :) What I wanna say is buy and wear what you want and don't listen to this what others say. I buy rapha because I like the fabric and the design and no-one in near my location I know of wears rapha. cheers :D

I didn't think much about it, but wow when you stuck it on your head something happened

Lovely.

Wondering about the air flow through the helmet 🤔. Looks great though.

Mine cost forty pounds and came with mip sbut isn't as pretty

Yahoo. Julian-stunning .

Hi Julian, Is it a 4 speed or 12 speed? Not that it makes any difference for the stopping mechanism, but I bought the 4 speed last year unknowing that the 12 should arrive this year… so just wondering which one you have and if you’re also missing a few gears 😊

Yeah, you love your mountain bike. Good for you!

Very Informative but way to much talking around the points.

Cheap Shit! My stopdisc on my now much former than 2019 Superlight, below 9 kilo with mudguards, as a "Rainy Dane", is titanium with a flat carbon disc! And I use a strap to secure it, when folded, to keep it folded in my B&W bag. Finn. Denmark

Julien, read ‘Born to Run’! Barefoot shoes are the only way to go! Thank you, great video!

Was that your leg julian

Gah... just bruising? When proper mountain bikers crash their injuries look like the contents of a butcher's bin - blood and gore all over the place. It was very good of you Julian to make that short video while you were thinking about cleaning your rear derailleur (and that cable clamp in particular). You were about to clean your derailleur... weren't you? 😛

Hey Julian how you doing? Other than the bruises I mean lol

I'm 66 and don't have pockets on my shorts because I don't want to look like a knob either. There are already plenty of other opportunities for that.

gotta stay healthy and make sure to reach 69.